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1 online resource (x, 221 pages) |
| Contents |
Racial melancholia : model minorities, depression, and suicide -- Desegregating love : transnational adoption, racial reparation, and racial transitional objects -- Racial dissociation : parachute children and psychic nowhere -- (Gay) panic attack : coming out in a colorblind age |
| Summary |
In Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought, they develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties, from depression, suicide, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype, transnational adoption, parachute children, colorblind discourses in the United States, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race, sexuality, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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Asian American youth.
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Asian Americans -- Race identity
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Model minority stereotype -- United States
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Race -- Psychological aspects
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Asian American gay people
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Asian diaspora.
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Asians -- United States.
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Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Asian American Studies.
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Asian American gays
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Asian American youth
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Asian Americans -- Race identity
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Asian diaspora
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Asians
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Model minority stereotype
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Race -- Psychological aspects
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Han, Shinhee, 1963- author.
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| LC no. |
2018026363 |
| ISBN |
9781478002680 |
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1478002689 |
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