Fighting Invisibility : : Asian Americans in the Midwest / / Monica Mong Trieu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• VerfasserIn: Trieu, Monica Mong,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (180 p.) :; 2 B-W illustrations, 5 tables

In Fighting Invisibility, Monica Mong Trieu argues that we must consider the role of physical and symbolic space to fully understand the nuances of Asian American racialization. By doing this, we face questions such as, historically, who has represented Asian America? Who gets to represent Asian America? This book shifts the primary focus to Midwest Asian America to disrupt—and expand beyond—the existing privileged narratives in United States and Asian American history. Drawing from in-depth interviews, census data, and cultural productions from Asian Americans in Ohio, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, and Michigan, this interdisciplinary research examines how post-1950s Midwest Asian Americans navigate identity and belonging, racism, educational settings, resources within co-ethnic communities, and pan-ethnic cultural community. Their experiences and life narratives are heavily framed by three pervasive themes of spatially defined isolation, invisibility, and racialized visibility. Fighting Invisibility makes an important contribution to racialization literature, while also highlighting the necessity to further expand the scope of Asian American history-telling and knowledge production.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Asian America in America’s Heartland -- 1 Who Is Midwestern Asian America? A Demographic Overview and Personal Histories of Post-1950s Midwestern Asian Americans -- 2 “I Only Knew It in Relation to Its Absence”: Isolated and Everyday Ethnics on Spatial Contexts, Community, and Identity -- 3 “Why Couldn’t I Be White?”: On the Legacy of Colonialism, Racism, and Internalized Racism in the Midwest -- 4 Crafting “Sharp Weapons” in the Heartland: The Making of Cultural Productions as Racialized Subjects -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: A Final Note on Moving Forward for Asian America -- Appendix: Selected Characteristics of Study Participants -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index