 | Model-Minority Imperialism Subjects: Asian Americans -- Race identity; Asian Americans -- Politics and government; Asian Americans -- Intellectual life; Imperialism; Postcolonialism; United States -- Territorial expansion; United States -- Intellectual life; Nationalism -- United States; Uni; Focusing on the terms of Asian American assimilation and the rise of the model-minority myth, Victor Bascara examines the resurgence of empire as a tool for understanding the legacy of American imperialism. Model-Minority Imperialism links geopolitical dramas of twentieth-century empire building with domestic controversies of U.S. racial order by examining the cultural politics of Asian Americans in fiction, film, and theatrical productions. |
