Asian-Americans: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being?

Autor/in	Omi, Michael
Titel	Asian-Americans: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being?
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 55 (2008) 5, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Asian Americans; Whites; Acculturation; Racial Bias; Racial Relations + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; White; Weißer; Akkulturation; Racial discrimination; Rassismus
Abstract	Like "outsiders"--such as the Irish and the Jewish--have been incorporated into the Americans' notions of who are whites, some scholars and policy makers believe that Asian-Americans are following such a trajectory of inclusion under an expanded definition of "whiteness." The sociologist George Yancey, in "Who Is White? Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide," argues that Asian-Americans, along with some Latinos, are undergoing significant levels of structural, marital, and identificational assimilation. The question of whether Asian-Americans are becoming white is a complex one. In this article, the author explains how Asian-Americans are "becoming" white. He also discusses how the majority and other minority groups in the U.S. perceive the assimilation of Asian-Americans into the strict American social boundaries. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10