Picturing model citizens civility in Asian American visual culture

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Phu, Thy, 1975-

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At the heart of the model minority myth-often associated with Asian Americans-is the concept of civility. In this groundbreaking book, Picturing Model Citizens, Thy Phu exposes the complex links be...

At the heart of the model minority myth-often associated with Asian Americans-is the concept of civility. In this groundbreaking book, Picturing Model Citizens, Thy Phu exposes the complex links between civility and citizenship, and argues that civility plays a crucial role in constructing Asian American citizenship.Featuring works by Arnold Genthe, Carl Iwasaki, Toyo Miyatake, Nick Ut, and others, Picturing Model Citizens traces the trope of civility from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Through an examination of photographs of Chinese immigrants, Ja

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