Asian American Studies 152 Exam 1 Study Material - UW Madison

Legacies of Discrimination - Ancheta

Naturalization and Immigration laws

The Persistence of Yellow Peril Discourse - Ono and Pham

Yellow Peril - depicting Asian Americans as taking over, negatively "asianize" the US

Power of racial beliefs to influence laws

Cultural Difference, threats to sexuality, threats to religion, threats to public health

Determined Racial Population

How "Crazy Rich Asians" Have Led to the Largest Income Gap in the US - Hassan and Carlsen

East Asians came with skills, high education, South Asians came as refugees

Model Minority belief can grow Yellow Peril, put pressure on Asians

Stereotypes are because of selectivity of immigration

Symbolic Captial and Stereotype Promise - Lee and Zhou

Model Minority belief can place pressure on Asians and make them reject ethnic identity if fail

Stereotype promise - promise of being viewed in positive stereotype and can enhance performance based off group membership

Symbolic capital is intangible benefits from being part of group

Racial Microaggressions and the Asian American Experience - Sue et. al.

Microaggressions are brief everyday interactions that send denigrating messsages

overt old racism has more covert form, even in well intentioned people

Young Children's Thinking about Ethnic Differences - Ramsay

Children use visual traits to categorize, usually race first

Children use transductive reasoning but is flawed as they generalize about whole group

People suppress variation to support their expectations

The Name Jar - Choi

Korean girl unhappy with name, learns to accept name

Yoko - Wells

Cat made fun of for bringing sushi

Implications of using animals, can lead to further racial stereotyping, but good for kids who need the message

Books like this cannot deal with systemic racism, interpersonal only

Lets Cook Thai: Recipes for Colonialism - Heldke

Experimental/adventure eater/cook

Cultural colonialism - taking out of context for one's own gain and effort of creation/discovery

Food pornography - exploits exotic nature of ethnic food, exaggerates one's otherness, shallow way to seemingly lift up someone's identity

Empires of the Mind: My Love Affair with Asian Food Begins - Shaw

Shaw eats at chinese place in Manhattan a lot

Wrong in how he describes because he thinks he is a part of the culture and feels like a "true Chinese food eater" as he knows "how to"

Food pornography/cultural colonialism

Beefeaters - Sekhon

Reflects on fetishized steak as being American, longs to be part of that culture

Realizes that he doesn't even like it

Toll House Cookies - Nguyen

Beth has Jennifer as white friend and wants to be able to go into the living room of the house (associated with whiteness)

hates when Jennifer doesn't want her culture as much as Beth wants hers

Envies simultaneously as hates

If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I? - Kothari

Wants to eat American food but mom doesn't know how or approve

Later finds herself wishing she could cook indian food just as well

The Garden - Thao

Successful finance manager in Chicago, wants to move up in ranks and doesn't visit home a lot wants to be free of obligations of home and family

Goes to visit once and sees fruit of labor

Realizes she likes her roots more

M Butterfly - Hwang

Oriental East as more feminine, submissive

Critiques way US treats Eastern countries

Song says only man knows how woman should act, shows critique on gender roles and femininity as constructed

Shows Orientalism theme where European power controls and influences oriental countries

Gallimard feels more like man when controlling oriental woman

Shows gender as construct and performance