The color of success : Asian Americans and the origins of the model minority / Ellen D. Wu.

"The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the 'yellow peril' to 'model minorities'--Peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--i...

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Main Author: Wu, Ellen D. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Series:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Imperatives of Asian American citizenship
  • Part I. War and the assimilating other. Leave your zoot suits behind
  • How American are we?
  • Nisei in uniform
  • America's Chinese
  • Part II. Definitively not-Black. Success story, Japanese American Style
  • Chinatown offers us a lesson
  • The melting pot of the Pacific
  • Epilogue. Model minority/Asian American
  • Archival, primary, and unpublished sources.