Model Minority Masochism: Performing the Cultural Politics of Asian American Masculinity

by Takeo Rivera

There are few grand narratives that loom over Asian Americans more than the model minority. While many Asian Americanist scholars and activists aim to disprove the model minority as myth, author Takeo Rivera instead rethinks the model minority as cultural politics. Rather than disproving the
model minority, Rivera instead argues that Asian Americans have formulated their racial and gendered subjectivities in relation to what Rivera terms model...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197557481
• ISBN13: 9780197557488
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages