| Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture Subjects: Asian Americans in popular culture; Images Photographic -- Social aspects -- United States; Photography -- Social aspects -- United States; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects; Courtesy -- United States; Citizenship -- United St; At the heart of the model minority myth--often associated with Asian Americans--is the concept of civility. In this groundbreaking book, Picturing Model Citizens , Thy Phu exposes the complex links between civility and citizenship, and argues that civility plays a crucial role in constructing Asian American citizenship. Thy Phu is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Western Ontario. She is editor of the Americas region for the journal Photography and Culture , and co-editor (with Elspeth Brown) of a collection of essays entitled Feeling Photography. |