The emerging monoculture : assimilation and the "model minority"
They need not be mutually exclusive, but neither is it assumed that they are necessarily consonant.The various essays offer answers to such vital questions as What does it mean to become a 'global citizen'?
xxi, 332 pages ; 25 cm
9780275973124, 0275973123
50294862
Introduction : Assimilation and the model minority ideology / Eric Mark Kramer
Gaiatsu and cultural judo / Erik Mark Kramer
The hidden justification for assimilation, multiculturalism, and the prospects for democracy / John W. Murphy and Luigi Esposito
Adopting the Caucasian "look" : reorganizing the minority face / Masako Isa and Eric Mark Kramer
The violence of assimilation and psychological well-being / Chi-Ah Chun and Jung Min Choi
The Ainu : a discourse on being Japanese / Masazumi Maruyama
Headache and heartbreak : the elusiveness of "model minority" status attainment for African Americans / Charlton D. McIlwain and Lonnie Johnson Jr
Being disabled in modern Japan : a minority perspective / Miho Iwakuma
Successful Indians : benevolent assimilation and Indian identity / Karola, and Philip Lujan
Abandoned people in Japan : the first generation of Koreans in Japan / Richiko Ikeda
Old and new worlds / Algis Mickunas
Demythologizing the "model minority" / Eungjun Min
Asian Indians and the model minority narrative : a neocolonial system / Archana J. Bhatt
A world of cookie-cutter faces / Rachael Rainwater-McClure, Weslynn Reed, and Eric Mark Kramer
Cosmopoly : occidentalism and the new world order / Eric Mark Kramer