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America's asia

Lye, Colleen

2005,2009,2004

Overview

What explains the perception of Asians both as economic exemplars and as threats? America's Asia explores a discursive tradition that affiliates the East with modern efficiency, in contrast to more familiar primitivist forms of Orientalism. Colleen Lye traces the American stereotype of Asians as a \"model minority\" or a \"yellow peril\"—two aspects of what she calls \"Asiatic racial form\"— to emergent responses to globalization beginning in California in the late nineteenth century, when industrialization proceeded in tandem with the nation's neocolonial expansion beyond its continental frontier. From Progressive efforts to regulate corporate monopoly to New Deal contentions with the crisis of the Great Depression, a particular racial mode of social redress explains why turn-of-the-century radicals and reformers united around Asian exclusion and why Japanese American internment during World War II was a liberal initiative.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: 19th century / 20th century / Agriculture / Alien land laws / American frontier / American imperialism / American literature / American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism / American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism / Americans / Anti-capitalism / Anti-Japanese sentiment / Asia / Asia -- Foreign public opinion, American / Asia -- In literature / Asia -- Relations -- United States / Asian American studies / Asian Americans / Asian Americans in literature / Asiatic mode of production / Capitalism / Chinese Exclusion Act / Citizenship / Class conflict / Colonialism / Colonization / Commodity / Dystopia / Employment / Exclusion / Farm Security Administration / Foreign public opinion, American / Frank Norris / Historiography / History and criticism / Ideology / Immigration / Immigration law / Imperialism / In literature / Industrial Workers of the World / Internment / Internment of Japanese Americans / Jack London / Japanese Americans / John Steinbeck / Journalism / LITERARY CRITICISM / LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Asian American / Literature / Model minority / Modernity / Monopoly Capital / Narrative / National security / Nationality / Nativism (politics) / Nisei / Open Door Policy / Orientalism / Orientalism -- United States / Orientalism in literature / Pearl S. Buck / Peasant / Persecution / Political economy / POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy / Politics / Populism / Prejudice / Progressivism / Race in literature / Racialization / Racism / Radicalism (historical) / Relations / Rhetoric / Slavery / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations / Standard of living / Subversion / Superiority (short story) / The Iron Heel / The Other Hand / United States / United States -- Relations -- Asia / Vegetable / Wang Lung / World War II / Writing / Yellow Peril
• ISBN: 0691114196, 1400826438, 0691114188, 9781400826438, 9780691114187, 9780691114194