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Picturing Model Citizens: Civility in Asian American Visual Culture
By (author) Thy Phu
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At the heart of the model minority mythOCooften associated with Asian AmericansOCois the concept of civility. In this groundbreaking book, ""Picturing Model Citizens,"" Thy Phu exposes the complex links between civility and citizenship, and argues that civility plays a crucial role in constructing Asian American citizenship. Featuring works by Arnold Genthe, Carl Iwasaki, Toyo Miyatake, Nick Ut, and others, ""Picturing Model Citizens"" traces the trope of civility from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Through an examination of photographs of Chinese immigrants, Japanese internment camps, the Hiroshima Maidens project, napalm victims, and the SARS epidemic, Phu explores civility's unexpected appearance in images that draw on discourses of intimacy, cultivation, apology, and hygiene. She reveals how Asian American visual culture illustrates not only cultural ideas of civility, but also contests the contradictions of state-defined citizenship. a
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Publisher | Temple University Press,U.S.
Published date | 14 May 2014
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Format | Digital (delivered electronically)
Pages | 219
Dimensions | 0 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-4399-0722-1
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BISAC | photography / criticism
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