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Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility Between Assimilation and Oppression

Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility Between Assimilation and Oppression

Liu, Wen

Hardcover

Series: Nwsa / Uip First Book Prize

Asian American StudiesGeneral PsychologyWomen's Studies

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ISBN10: 0252045793
ISBN13: 9780252045790
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: May 7 2024
Pages: 200
Language: English

Asian Americans have become the love-hate subject of the American psyche: at times celebrated as the model minority, at other times hated as foreigners. Wen Liu examines contemporary Asian American identity formation while placing it within a historical and ongoing narrative of racial injury. The flexible racial status of Asian Americans oscillates between oppression by the white majority and offers to assimilate into its ranks. Identity emerges from the tensions produced between those two poles. Liu dismisses the idea of Asian Americans as a coherent racial population. Instead, she examines them as a raced, gendered, classed, and sexualized group producing varying physical and imaginary boundaries of nation, geography, and citizenship. Her analysis reveals repeated norms and acts that capture Asian Americanness as part of a racial imagination that buttresses capitalism, white supremacy, neoliberalism, and the US empire.

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