From the Yellow Peril to the Model Minority and Back Again: Unraveling the Orientalist Representations of Asian Americans in the Age of Covid-19
Anti-Asian xenophobia and discriminatory acts against Asian Americans have increased significantly as the COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly spread across the US. But connections between diseases, racism, and xenophobia are not new in the history of Asian America. While from the 1890s to the 1950s, Asian...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2021
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Journal of pastoral theology
Έτος: 2021, Τόμος: 31, Τεύχος: 2/3, Σελίδες: 175-192 |
| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | FD Θεολογία βάσει συμφραζομένων KBM Ασία KBQ Βόρεια Αμερική ΤΚ Σύγχρονη Εποχή ΖΑ Κοινωνικές επιστήμες |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Anti-Asian racism
B Covid-19 B Yellow Peril B Edward Said B model minority |
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| Σύνοψη: | Anti-Asian xenophobia and discriminatory acts against Asian Americans have increased significantly as the COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly spread across the US. But connections between diseases, racism, and xenophobia are not new in the history of Asian America. While from the 1890s to the 1950s, Asian Americans were primarily stigmatized with the label ‘Yellow Peril,’ from the 1960s to the present, they have been simplistically cast as the ‘model minority.’ However, with the outbreak of COVID-19, misinformation about the virus also spread, and the public perception of Asian Americans has shifted once again from their being the ‘model minority’ to being the ‘Yellow Peril.’ By looking at intellectual and cultural history, I argue that ‘Yellow Peril’ and ‘model minority’ are Orientalist representations of Asian Americans that have been used as hegemonic devices. Orientalism as a relationship of unequal power has structured the obstacles that Asian Americans have struggled against as they try to find a sense of belonging in the US. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-4504 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Journal of pastoral theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/10649867.2021.1929711 |