Model-minority imperialism / Victor Bascara

Author: Bascara, Victor, 1970-
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2006]
Copyright Date: ©2006
Physical Description: xxxvi, 192 pages ; 23 cm

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Contents

Introduction : we are here because you were there -- Unburdening empire : the cultural politics of Asian American difference -- An ever-emergent empire : the discourse of American exceptionalism -- "The American earth was like a huge heart" : old dreams and the new imperialism -- Uplifting race, reconstructing empire -- "Everybody wants to be Farrah" : absurd histories and historical absurdities -- Epilogue : pay any price, bear any burden.

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Asian Americans—Race identity
Asian Americans—Politics and government
Asian Americans—Intellectual life
Imperialism
Postcolonialism
Nationalism—United States
United States—Territorial expansion
United States—Intellectual life
United States—Relations—Asia
Asia—Relations—United States

ISBN

0816645116 (hc : alk. paper)
0816645124 (pb : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [141]-177) and index.

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