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Preview this item Preview this item. In addition, this text takes students beyond the boundaries of the United States to cultivate a comparative and global understanding of the Asian experience"--Page 4 of cover. Read more Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private. Save Cancel. Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country.
Moreover, they provide a wonderful lens on the experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States more generally, both historically and today. Reviews Editorial reviews. User-contributed reviews Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Edition No. Sociological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. All Rights Reserved. Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. Moreover, they provide a wonderful lens on the experiences of immigrants and minorities in the United States more generally, both historically and today.
In this timely new text, Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez critically examine key sociological topics through the experiences of Asian Am Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the country. In this timely new text, Pawan Dhingra and Robyn Magalit Rodriguez critically examine key sociological topics through the experiences of Asian Americans, including social hierarchies of race, gender, and sexuality , work, education, family, culture, identity, media, pan-ethnicity, social movements, and politics.
With vivid examples and lucid discussion of a broad range of theories, the authors demonstrate the contributions of the discipline of sociology to understanding Asian Americans, and vice versa.
In addition, this text takes students beyond the boundaries of the United States to cultivate a comparative and global understanding of the Asian experience, as it has become increasingly transnational and diasporic. Bridging sociology and the growing interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies, and uniquely placing them in dialogue with one another, this engaging text will be welcome in undergraduate and graduate sociology courses such as race and ethnic relations, immigration, and social stratification, as well as on ethnic studies courses more broadly.
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Add this book to your favorite list ». Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. You may have heard some of them, and as myths, they must be debunked. This books does a great job in doing that, and much more. A must read for those who are interested in the dialogue among diverse ethnic groups in America, a society that is torn between assimilation, acculturation, cultural pluralism, and I will add, plain and simple bigotry. Five stars, highly recommended.
Poza As someone who lived in Japan for 23 years and currently resides in one of the most ethnically diverse areas of the United States with a large Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian population , I was interested in this book as a means of bridging the gap in my understanding of Asians in their home countries and Asians in America.
What I was hoping for was something which informed me on the unique identities and lifestyles of people of Asian descent who were born in or immigrated to the U. What this is is largely a discussion of how oppressive certain dominant aspects of American culture are for Asian Americans. I was very disappointed in how little descriptive information there is of their identities and lifestyles.
This is mainly about challenges and discrimination. While important aspects, it seems that there is a distinct bias and that the book is oriented mostly toward discussing heteronormative, male, and white privilege.
An example of this is in the chapter which includes information on gender and sexuality. When I lived in Japan, I learned that their culture was generally more rigid in regards to roles than American society and homosexuality was something most people there believed the West "taught" the Japanese, not something that was part of the normal continuum of sexual behavior. There was no discussion in this chapter of Asian cultural norms across the spectrum of those who identify as Asian.
It was all about Western stereotypes of Asians in regards to sexuality the passive, neutered Asian male, the dragon lady, etc. I came away knowing nothing more about gender roles or sexuality within Asian-American families though first-hand experience with people I've known would lead me to believe that there is generally a tendency toward more traditional gender roles within such families.
Unfortunately, I would prefer to have more than my anecdotal experiences to draw on. This book didn't give me more objective statistics or information. If you are looking for a book that is largely focused on privilege and discrimination and how they affect Asian Americans, this is an extremely well-written textbook.
It does provide enlightening information on certain corners of that issue and it is not entirely focused on that point. It's very readable by those with a college-level education words like "phenotype" are used, which I learned when I studied psychology in university, but it's clearly not a common word. I felt that some parts of the book really had less to do with Asian Americans and more to do with being a minority in America.
Indeed, content in the beginning focuses on African Americans. If you're looking for something more objective and descriptive of the lives of Asian Americans in accord with the cultural norms that they live with based on their heritage, then this isn't the book for you.
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