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Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity

Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity

Rivera, Takeo

Paperback

TelevisionFilm StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 019755749X
ISBN13: 9780197557495
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Apr 26 2022
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.33
Language: English
There are few grand narratives that loom over Asian Americans more than the âmodel minority.â While many Asian Americanist scholars and activists aim to disprove the model minority as âmyth, â author Takeo Rivera instead rethinks the model minority as cultural politics. Rather than disproving the model minority, Rivera instead argues that Asian Americans have formulated their racial and gendered subjectivities in relation to what Rivera terms âmodel minority masochism.â Examining hegemonic masculine Asian American cultural performance across multiple media, from literature and theater to videogames and activist archives, Rivera details two complementary forms of contemporary racial masochism: a self-subjugating masochism which embraces the model minority, and its opposite, a self-flagellating masochism that punishes oneself for having been associated with the model minority at all.

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