AS AM 133 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Yellow Peril, Model Minority, William Petersen
15 Nov 2017
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It is restricting people from saying the n-word but not a threatening essentialism because it doesn"t take away resources. Can be used as a strategic essentialism: to raise awareness to the inequality. Some way of how we allocate those public resources that we hold together. Switch from race to (debate) structure vs. culture. Does disparity exist because of external or internal factors. The threatening dimension vs the less threatening one (mostly comical) Therefore, race doesn"t equal to obstacle to success. By any criterion of good citizenship that we choose, the ja are better than any group in our society, including native-born whites, they have established this remarkable record, moreover, by their own almost totally unaided effort. At a time when it is being proposed that hundreds of billions be spent to uplift negroes and other minorities, the nations. Chinese-americans are moving ahead on their own- with no help from anyone else.
