| Orientals Revised Edition Contributor(s): Lee, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1566397537 ISBN-13: 9781566397537 Publisher: Temple University Press OUR PRICE: $29.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1999 Annotation: Sooner or later every Asian American must deal with the question, "Where do you come from?" It is probably the most familiar if least aggressive form of racism. It is a tip off to the persistent notion that people of Asian ancestry are not real Americans, that "Orientals" never really stop being loyal to a foreign homeland, no matter how long they or their family have been in this country. Confronting the cultural stereotypes that have been attached to Asian Americans over the last 150 years, Robert G. Lee seizes the label "Oriental" and asks where it came from. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - Social Science | Popular Culture - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies |
| Dewey: 305.895 |
| Lexile Measure: 1510 |
| Series: Asian American History & Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6" W x 8.94" (0.91 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Confronting the cultural stereotypes that have been attached to Asian-Americans over the last 150 years, this title seizes the label Oriental and asks where it came from. It shows how the bewildering array of racialized images first proffered by music hall songsters and social commentators have evolved and become generalized to Asian-Americans. |