Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility Between Assimilation and Oppression

Asian Americans are a raced, gendered, classed, and sexualized group that produces varying physical and imaginary boundaries of nation, geography, and citizenship, buttressing capitalism, white supremacy, neoliberalism, and the US empire.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 07 May 2024
Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Asian Americans have become a complex and multifaceted subject of the American psyche, with their identity often celebrated as the model minority and at other times hated as foreigners. Wen Liu's book, "Feeling Asian American," examines contemporary Asian American identity formation within a historical and ongoing narrative of racial injury. Liu challenges the idea of Asian Americans as a coherent racial population and instead examines them as a raced, gendered, classed, and sexualized group producing varying physical and imaginary boundaries of nation, geography, and citizenship. Her analysis reveals repeated norms and acts that capture Asian Americanness as part of a racial imagination that buttresses capitalism, white supremacy, neoliberalism, and the US empire. Liu's book is an innovative challenge to persistent myths and offers a comprehensive understanding of Asian American identity. It ranges from the wartime origins of Asian American psychology to anti-Asian attacks to present Asian Americanness as a complex political assemblage.

Weight: 298g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780252087905