Common Ground : : Reimagining American History / / Gary Y. Okihiro.
In Common Ground, Gary Okihiro uses the experiences of Asian Americans to reconfigure the ways in which American history can be understood. He examines a set of binaries--East and West, black and white, man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual--that have structured the telling of our nation's...
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Okihiro, Gary Y., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Common Ground : Reimagining American History / Gary Y. Okihiro. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020] ©2001 1 online resource (176 p.) : 16 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1. West and East -- CHAPTER 2. White and Black -- CHAPTER 3. Man and Woman -- CHAPTER 4. Heterosexual and Homosexual -- CHAPTER 5. American History -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Common Ground, Gary Okihiro uses the experiences of Asian Americans to reconfigure the ways in which American history can be understood. He examines a set of binaries--East and West, black and white, man and woman, heterosexual and homosexual--that have structured the telling of our nation's history and shaped our ideas of citizenship since the late nineteenth century. Okihiro not only exposes the artifice of these binaries but also offers a less rigid and more embracing set of stories on which to ground a national history. Influenced by European hierarchical thinking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Anglo Americans increasingly categorized other newcomers to the United States. Binaries formed in the American imagination, creating a sense of coherence among white citizens during times of rapid and far-reaching social change. Within each binary, however, Asian Americans have proven disruptive: they cannot be fully described as either Eastern or Western; they challenge the racial categories of black and white; and within the gender and sexual binaries of man and woman, straight and gay, they have been repeatedly positioned as neither nor. Okihiro analyzes how groups of people and numerous major events in American history have generally been depicted, and then offers alternative representations from an Asian-American viewpoint--one that reveals the ways in which binaries have contributed toward simplifying, excluding, and denying differences and convergences. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, from the Chicago Exposition of 1898 to The Wizard of Oz, this book is a provocative response to current debates over immigration and race, multiculturalism and globalization, and questions concerning the nature of America and its peoples. The ideal foil to conventional surveys of American history, Common Ground asks its readers to reimagine our past free of binaries and open to diversity and social justice. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Feb 2021) Asian Americans Social conditions. Binary principle (Linguistics). Cultural pluralism United States. Group identity United States. Minorities United States Social conditions. National characteristics, American. Subjectivity Social aspects United States. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh African Americans. Asian Indians. Cassatt, Mary. Chinese. Christianity. Dahomeyans. East. Empress of China. Filipino Americans. Hayakawa, Sessue. Hunter, Robert. Irish. Japanese. Jefferson, Thomas. Kansas. Kimball, Nell. Latinos. Orientalism. Pacific civilization. aliens. barbarism. binaries. biracials. blackness. colonization. conquest. deviance. frontier. gendering. geography. immigrants. imperialism. lynching. manliness. miscegenation. modernity. naturalization. nonwhiteness. patriarchy. prostitutes. purity. racializing. science. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400844364?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400844364 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400844364.jpg |
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