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Fighting Invisibility: Asian Americans in the Midwest

Fighting Invisibility: Asian Americans in the Midwest

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Asian American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1978834284
ISBN13: 9781978834286
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Mar 17 2023
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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.

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