America's Asia

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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 emerg...

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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 emerg...

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  • Formats: pdf
  • ISBN: 9781400826438
  • Publication Date: 24 May 2009
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM