Myth of the Model Minority : Asian Americans Facing Racism

Chou, Rosalind S.; Feagin, Joe R.

ISBN 10: 1612055702 / ISBN 13: 9781612055701

Published by Paradigm Publishers, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Myth of the Model Minority : Asian Americans Facing Racism
• Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1612055702
• ISBN 13: 9781612055701
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The second edition of this popular book adds important new research on how racial stereotyping is gendered and sexualized. New interviews show that Asian American men feel emasculated in America s male hierarchy. Women recount their experiences of being exoticized, subtly and otherwise, as sexual objects. The new data reveal how race, gender, and sexuality intersect in the lives of Asian Americans. The text retains all the features of the renowned first edition, which offered the first in-depth exploration of how Asian Americans experience and cope with everyday racism. The book depicts the double consciousness of many Asian Americans experiencing racism but feeling the pressures to conform to popular images of their group as America s highly achieving model minority.

About the Author

Rosalind S. Chou, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgia State University, is the author of Asian American Sexual Politics and coauthor with Joe Feagin of The Myth of the Model Minority. Joe R. Feagin, currently Ella C. McFadden Professor at Texas A&M University, graduated from Baylor University in 1960 and acquired his Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard University in 1966. Feagin has taught at the University of Massachusetts (Boston), University of California (Riverside), University of Texas, University of Florida, and Texas A&M University. Feagin has done much research work on racism and sexism issues and has served as the scholar in residence at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. He has written 53 books, one of which (Ghetto Revolts) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He is the 2006 recipient of a Harvard Alumni Association achievement award and was the 1999 2000 president of the American Sociological Association. He is also the 2013 recipient of the Arthur Fletcher Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Association for Affirmative Action.