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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Henry Yu |
| ISBN: | 0195151275 9780195151275 |
| OCLC Number: | 48753586 |
| Notes: | Originally published: 2001. |
| Description: | 288 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | FIRST MOVEMENT--COMING TO THE WEST: CONSTRUCTING THE ORIENTAL PROBLEM; 1. Professions of Faith: Missionaries, Sociologists, and the Survey of Race Relations, 1924-1926; 2. Thinking about Orientals: Chicago Sociologists and the Oriental Problem; 3. Orientalism and the Mapping of Race; 4. The Survey's End; SECOND MOVEMENT--COMING TO CHICAGO: ASIAN AMERICANS AND THE ORIENTAL PROBLEM; 5. Wanted: Interpreters and Informants, Orientals Please Apply; 6. Language of Hope: The Oriental as Marginal Man; 7. Language of Discontent: Using the Stranger's Perspective; RETRACINGS--COMING TO AMERICA: THE ORIENTAL AS AN INTELLECTUAL/OBJECT; 8. Performers on Stage; 9. American Orientalism as a Theory of Race, Space, and Identity; 10. Epilogue: Legacies and Descendants; An Epitaph |
| Responsibility: | Yu Henry. |
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<br>"The book challenges the reader to develop an expansive analysis of Asian Americans and their relation to race in the United States."--Educational Researcher<p><br>"A tour de force. Henry Yu takes us on a dazzling journey through twentieth-century social science and identity politics. There is something new and provocative on every page, from Yu's deep analysis of the construction of the "oriental" in Chicago School sociology to his finely-drawn biographical vignettes of famous intellectuals and little known immigrants. Thinking Orientals will find a place on a short shelf of absolutely indispensable books on the changing concept of race in American history."-Thomas J. Sugrue, University of Pennsylvania<p><br>"In this masterful and densely textured book, Henry Yu explores how American social scientists at the University of Chicago grappled with the 'Oriental problem' during the first half of the twentieth century. Offering rich insights on how theories of race and culture in American intellectual life were constructed, Thinking Orientals exposes the limitations of binary racial theories and offers us sophisticated ways of thinking about the complexity of contemporary race relations. This is an important book. It is one of the best intellectual histories of the concept of race I have read."-Ram n A. Guti rrez, University of California, San Diego<p><br>"Elegantly written, keenly argued. Page after page, Thinking Orientals is aglitter with insights which will be important, not only for specialists in Asian American studies, but for anyone interested in the workings of 'race' on the American scene. Henry Yu brilliantly illuminates the mutual engagement of the social and the intellectual worlds-the power of ideas to disfigure the social landscape, and of existing social and institutional structures persistently to hem our thinking."-Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University<p><br>"Thinking Orientals is a brilliant synthesis of ethnic studies and intellectual history. He Read more...
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- Chinese Americans.
- Japanese Americans.
- Asian Americans.
- Race awareness -- United States.
- Asian Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity -- Philosophy.
- Chicago school of sociology.
- Sociology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
