Feeling Asian American

Racial Flexibility Between Assimilation and Oppression

Wen Liu

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University of Illinois Press
07 May 2024

Social & cultural history; Feminism & feminist theory; Ethnic studies; Black & Asian studies; Social, group or collective psychology

Series: NWSA / UIP First Book Prize

Asian Americans have become the love-hate subject of the American psyche: at times celebrated as the model minority, at other times hated as foreigners. Wen Liu examines contemporary Asian American identity formation while placing it within a historical and ongoing narrative of racial injury. The flexible racial status of Asian Americans oscillates between oppression by the white majority and offers to assimilate into its ranks. Identity emerges from the tensions produced between those two poles. Liu dismisses the idea of Asian Americans as a coherent racial population. Instead, she examines them as a raced, gendered, classed, and sexualized group producing varying physical and imaginary boundaries of nation, geography, and citizenship. Her analysis reveals repeated norms and acts that capture Asian Americanness as part of a racial imagination that buttresses capitalism, white supremacy, neoliberalism, and the US empire.

An innovative challenge to persistent myths, Feeling Asian American ranges from the wartime origins of Asian American psychology to anti-Asian attacks to present Asian Americanness as a complex political assemblage.

By: Wen Liu
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 286g
ISBN: 9780252087905
ISBN 10: 0252087909
Series: NWSA / UIP First Book Prize
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 07 May 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Wen Liu is an assistant research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Reviews for Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility Between Assimilation and Oppression

“Wen Liu’s examination of the contradictions of Asian American subjectivity does to assimilation and exclusion what Lauren Berlant’s concept of cruel optimism does to hope. Conflicting drives of accommodation and revolt put Asian Americans in psychic captivity, giving rise to wounded attachments to forms of life that prevent us from flourishing. What could result from this bind other than rage and despair? Feeling Asian American brilliantly reveals what’s the beef.”--David L. Eng, coauthor of Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans