Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America

by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Book Overview

In Race and Resistance: Literature and Politics in Asian America, Viet Nguyen argues that Asian American intellectuals have idealized Asian America, ignoring its saturation with capitalist practices. This idealization of Asian America means that Asian American intellectuals can neither grapple with their culture's ideological diversity nor recognize their own involvement with capitalist practices such as the selling of racial identity. Making his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195146999
• ISBN13: 9780195146998
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"