Saving Face : : The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth /

Saving Face : : The Emotional Costs of the Asian Immigrant Family Myth / / Angie Y. Chung.

Tiger Mom. Asian patriarchy. Model minority children. Generation gap. The many images used to describe the prototypical Asian family have given rise to two versions of the Asian immigrant family myth. The first celebrates Asian families for upholding the traditional heteronormative ideal of the &quo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter RUP eBook-Package 2016
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Chung, Angie Y.,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Families in Focus
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Asian Immigrant Family Myth
  • 2. Education, Sacrifice, and the "American Dream"
  • 3. Love and Communication across the Generation Gap
  • 4. Children as Family Caregivers
  • 5. Daughters and Sons Carrying Culture
  • 6. The Racial Contradictions of Being American
  • 7. Behind the Family Portrait
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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