Browsing by Subject "Asian American studies"
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Disorientations: Experimental Form in Asian American Literature
(2019)Disorientations: Experimental Form in Asian American Literature explores the relationship between unconventional, experimental, avant-garde, or broadly nonrealist aesthetic form in the major works of three seminal writers ... -
Graphic Intimations: Postwar to Contemporary Asian Diasporic Art and Writing
(2019)Graphic Intimations: Postwar to Contemporary Asian Diasporic Art and Writing follows the oblique tensions in Asian diasporic creative compositions between art and writing, performance and inscription. Identifying ... -
Minor Mobilities: A Historical Analysis of Little Saigon through Oral History
(2022)After the Vietnam War ended in 1975 many Southern Vietnamese were displaced and forced to relocate. Many of those refugees settled into an area located in Orange County, California and for the past fifty years have worked ... -
Novel Speculations: Postrace Fictions in the 21st Century
(2018)This project charts the emergence of a postrace aesthetic in American fiction. It examines how American novels respond to the pressures of what has been called the paradox of the postrace era: that our images and rhetoric ... -
Reimagining Model Minority: An Inquiry into the Post-1965 Chinese Immigration in the United States
(2019)This purpose of this thesis is to investigate the most significant issues and concerns confronting the Chinese immigrant community in the U.S. through a quantitative analysis of the current states of Chinese America and ... -
The Ends of the World-System: Resource Scarcity and Population Panics from Chesney to London
(2022)This dissertation seeks to understand the conditions of hegemonic transfer, in the case of world-historical cycles of accumulation, through investigating the cultural production of the period. I examine turn of the century ... -
The Fantastic Theater of Chinese Art in the Twentieth Century
(2022)The literati stereotype of Modern Chinese Art began as a conservative adaption of Chinese nationalist reform during the early twentieth century. Modern stereotypes provided an intuitive, common-sense way of acting and negotiating ... -
Topics in Selective Migration and Economic Assimilation of New Immigrants
(2020)My dissertation comprises three studies on topics in selective migration and economic assimilation of new immigrants. The first study examines the influence of selective migration on Asian Americans’ academic success. ... -
Yellow in White Suits: Race, Mobility, and Identity among Grown Children of Korean Immigrants
(2014)Children of post-1965 Asian immigrants experience a different mode of social incorporation than other people of color. They achieve marked socioeconomic advancement but racism and discrimination continue to haunt ...
