Thinking Orientals : Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America.

By: Yu, HenryMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Cary : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (279 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780198027614Subject(s): Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity -- Philosophy | Asian Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century | Chicago school of sociology | Sociology -- United States -- History -- 20th century | United States -- Race relations -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thinking Orientals : Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern AmericaDDC classification: 305.895073 LOC classification: E184.O6Y8 2001Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Terms and Translations -- An Invocation -- Introduction The Locations of History -- FIRST MOVEMENT-COMING TO THE WEST: Constructing the Oriental Problem -- A Setting -- 1 Professions of Faith: Missionaries, Sociologists, and the Survey of Race Relations, 1924-1926 -- 2 Thinking about Orientals: Chicago Sociologists and the Oriental Problem -- 3 Orientalism and the Mapping of Race -- 4 The Survey's Ends -- SECOND MOVEMENT-COMING TO CHICAGO: Asian Americans and the Oriental Problem -- 5 Wanted: Interpreters and Informants- Orientals, Please Apply -- 6 Language of Hope: The Oriental as Marginal Man -- 7 Language of Discontent: Using the Stranger's Perspective -- RETRACINGS-COMING TO AMERICA: The Oriental as an Intellectual/Object -- A Final Setting -- 8 Performers on Stage -- A Scene From Chinatown -- 9 American Orientalism as a Theory of Race, Space, and Identity -- 10 Legacies and Descendents -- An Epitaph -- Dramatis Personae -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: First Movement--Coming to the West: Constructing the Oriental Problem1. Professions of Faith: Missionaries, Sociologists, and the Survey of Race Relations, 1924-19262. Thinking about Orientals: Chicago Sociologists and the Oriental Problem3. Orientalism and the Mapping of Race4. The Survey's EndSecond Movement--Coming to Chicago: Asian Americans and the Oriental Problem5. Wanted: Interpreters and Informants, Orientals Please Apply6. Language of Hope: The Oriental as Marginal Man7. Language of Discontent: Using the Stranger's PerspectiveRetracings--Coming to America: The Oriental as an Intellectual/Object8. Performers on Stage9. American Orientalism as a Theory of Race, Space, and Identity10. Epilogue: Legacies and DescendantsAn Epitaph.
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Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Terms and Translations -- An Invocation -- Introduction The Locations of History -- FIRST MOVEMENT-COMING TO THE WEST: Constructing the Oriental Problem -- A Setting -- 1 Professions of Faith: Missionaries, Sociologists, and the Survey of Race Relations, 1924-1926 -- 2 Thinking about Orientals: Chicago Sociologists and the Oriental Problem -- 3 Orientalism and the Mapping of Race -- 4 The Survey's Ends -- SECOND MOVEMENT-COMING TO CHICAGO: Asian Americans and the Oriental Problem -- 5 Wanted: Interpreters and Informants- Orientals, Please Apply -- 6 Language of Hope: The Oriental as Marginal Man -- 7 Language of Discontent: Using the Stranger's Perspective -- RETRACINGS-COMING TO AMERICA: The Oriental as an Intellectual/Object -- A Final Setting -- 8 Performers on Stage -- A Scene From Chinatown -- 9 American Orientalism as a Theory of Race, Space, and Identity -- 10 Legacies and Descendents -- An Epitaph -- Dramatis Personae -- Notes -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

First Movement--Coming to the West: Constructing the Oriental Problem1. Professions of Faith: Missionaries, Sociologists, and the Survey of Race Relations, 1924-19262. Thinking about Orientals: Chicago Sociologists and the Oriental Problem3. Orientalism and the Mapping of Race4. The Survey's EndSecond Movement--Coming to Chicago: Asian Americans and the Oriental Problem5. Wanted: Interpreters and Informants, Orientals Please Apply6. Language of Hope: The Oriental as Marginal Man7. Language of Discontent: Using the Stranger's PerspectiveRetracings--Coming to America: The Oriental as an Intellectual/Object8. Performers on Stage9. American Orientalism as a Theory of Race, Space, and Identity10. Epilogue: Legacies and DescendantsAn Epitaph.

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