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Illegal Immigrants/Model Minorities: The Cold War of Chinese American Narrative (Asian American History & Cultu) by Heidi Kim; is a social science available to read on EtoBox.

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In the Cold War era, Chinese Americans were caught in a double-bind. The widespread stigma of illegal immigration, as it was often called, was most easily countered with the model minority, assimilating and forming nuclear families, but that in turn led to further stereotypes. In Illegal Immigrants/Model Minorities, Heidi Kim investigates how Chinese American writers navigated a strategy to normalize and justify the Chinese presence during a time when fears of Communism ran high. Kim explores ho

Who reads Illegal Immigrants/Model Minorities: The Cold War of Chinese American Narrative (Asian American History & Cultu)?

Author

Heidi Kim;

Publisher

Temple University Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439919026

Category

social science

Subjects

History, Science, Social Science

Updated

2026-03-25