eBook

Fighting Invisibility

Trieu, Monica Mong

2023

Overview

In Fighting Invisibility, Monica Mong Trieu argues that we must consider the role of physical and symbolic space to fully understand the nuances of Asian American racialization. By doing this, we face questions such as, historically, who has represented Asian America? Who gets to represent Asian America? This book shifts the primary focus to Midwest Asian America to disrupt—and expand beyond—the existing privileged narratives in United States and Asian American history. Drawing from in-depth interviews, census data, and cultural productions from Asian Americans in Ohio, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan, this interdisciplinary research examines how post-1950s Midwest Asian Americans navigate identity and belonging, racism, educational settings, resources within co-ethnic communities, and pan-ethnic cultural community. Their experiences and life narratives are heavily framed by three pervasive themes of spatially defined isolation, invisibility, and racialized visibility. Fighting Invisibility makes an important contribution to racialization literature, while also highlighting the necessity to further expand the scope of Asian American history-telling and knowledge production.

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Subject: 20th century / 21st century / america / American Studies / asian / asian american / Asian American activism / Asian American art / Asian American community / Asian American community studies / Asian American cultural production / Asian American culture / Asian American discrimination / Asian American education disparities / Asian American experience / Asian American history / Asian American history Midwest / Asian American identity / Asian American immigration / Asian American literature / Asian American narratives / Asian American racial experiences / Asian American racialization / Asian American representation / Asian American sociology / Asian American studies Midwest / Asian Americans / Asian Americans -- Middle West -- Social conditions -- 20th century / Asian Americans -- Middle West -- Social conditions -- 21st century / Asian Americans -- Race identity -- Middle West / Asian Americans in Ohio / Asian Americans in rural America / Asian Americans in the Midwest / asian studies / co-ethnic community networks / culture / discrimination / emigration / ethnicity / Group identity / Group identity -- Middle West / HISTORY / World / identity / Illinois / immigration / Indiana / Iowa / Michigan / Middle West / Middle West -- Race relations / midwest / Midwest Asian Americans / Midwest diaspora studies / migration / Minnesota / Nebraska / Ohio / pan-ethnic Asian American identity / post-1950s Asian migration / race / race and regional identity / Race identity / Race relations / racial isolation Asian Americans / racial visibility and invisibility / racism / Social conditions / SOCIAL SCIENCE / SOCIAL SCIENCE / General / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General / Social sciences / Sociology / spatial racism in America / Wisconsin
• ISBN: 1978834314, 9781978834316, 1978834292, 9781978834293, 1978834284, 9781978834286