"Foreign, Fetishized, Fever!" in Yellow Book: A Project by He Xiangyu
"Queer Faces, Unsafe Spaces" in Women and Inequality in the 21st Century
Published in 2019
Women and Inequality in the 21st Century is an edited collection by Brittany C. Slatton and Carla D. Brailey that addresses this dearth in the current literature. This book examines the continued inequities navigated by women occupying marginalized social positions within a "nexus of power relations." It addresses the experiences of immigrant women of color, aging women, normative gender constraints faced by lesbian and gender non-conforming individuals assigned the female gender at birth, religious constraints on women’s sexual expression, and religious and ethnic barriers impeding access to equality for women across the globe. Contributors to this collection reflect varying fields of inquiry—including sociology, psychology, theology, history, and anthropology. Their works employ empirical research methods, hermeneutic analysis, and narrative to capture the unique gender experiences and negotiations of diverse 21st-century women. Dresden Lackey and I contributed a book chapter tilted “Queer Faces, Unsafe Spaces: Everyday Discrimination of Lesbian and Gender Non-Conforming Women.” |
"Yellow Fever & Yellow Impotence" in Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
Published on December 20, 2018
The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development is a carefully curated conversation that brings together the top researchers in child and adolescent sexual development to redefine the issues, conflicts, and debates in the field. The Handbook is organized around three foundational questions: first, what is sexual development? Second, how do we study sexual development? And third, what roles might adults - including the institutions of the media, family, and education - play in the sexual development of children and adolescents? As the first of its kind, this collection integrates work from sociology, psychology, anthropology, history, education, cultural studies, and allied fields. Writing from different disciplinary traditions and about a range of international contexts, the contributors explore the role of sexuality in children's and adolescents' everyday experiences of identity, family, school, neighborhood, religion, and popular media. Our chapter in the collection is titled "Yellow Fever and Yellow Impotence: The Polarity of Asian-American Sexuality." |
Asian Americans on Campus: Racialized Space and White Power
Published on August 16, 2015
While there are books on racism in universities, few examine the unique position of Asian American undergraduates. This new book captures the voices and experiences of Asian Americans navigating the currents of race, gender, and sexuality as factors in how youth construct relationships and identities. Interviews with 70 Asian Americans on an elite American campus show how students negotiate the sexualized racism of a large institution. The authors emphasize the students' resilience and their means of resistance for overcoming the impact of structural racism. Review: "Race matters in every corner of America. In Asian Americans on Campus the authors offer an astute analysis of how whiteness profoundly shapes the lives of Asian Americans in colleges and universities. The book is rich in accounts of how they navigate campus life such as racial dating preferences, so-called “self-segregation,” and white normativity. The authors conclude convincingly that to fight the white habitus typical of elite college campuses, Asian American Students should become race conscious rather than “post-racial.” I hope we all heed their advice." --Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University |
"Love is Colorblind" in Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
Published April 2015
"Love Is (Color)blind Asian Americans and White Institutional Space at the Elite University" Abstract: The literature on racism at the university level is extensive, but few studies have examined the unique position of Asian American undergraduates. Studies of racial discrimination toward Asian Americans remain largely quantitative in nature and few in number. Through rich qualitative data, this article describes how Asian American undergraduates use language to negotiate their social experiences, romantic relationships, and identity at the elite university. It documents various discursive strategies Asian Americans use to cope with and negotiate racialized encounters. Frequent among the participants is the use of a color-blind discourse to describe such experiences. To understand the particular way Asian Americans practice color-blind talk, this article interrogates the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality and the specific racialization of this minority group. Further, such analysis reveals a racialized social landscape in higher education that is made more intractable through Asian Americans’ use of color-blind discourse. Finally, the article examines how Asian American undergraduates say they would respond to racism and illustrates discourse as a social practice with the potential to reproduce or resist racism. |
Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism (Fully Revised 2nd Ed)
Published on July 30, 2014
The second edition of this popular book adds important new research on how racial stereotyping is gendered and sexualized. New interviews show that Asian American men feel emasculated in America’s male hierarchy. Women recount their experiences of being exoticized, subtly and otherwise, as sexual objects. The new data reveal how race, gender, and sexuality intersect in the lives of Asian Americans. The text retains all the features of the renowned first edition, which offered the first in-depth exploration of how Asian Americans experience and cope with everyday racism. The book depicts the “double consciousness” of many Asian Americans—experiencing racism but feeling the pressures to conform to popular images of their group as America’s highly achieving “model minority.”
FEATURES OF THE SECOND EDITION
The second edition of this popular book adds important new research on how racial stereotyping is gendered and sexualized. New interviews show that Asian American men feel emasculated in America’s male hierarchy. Women recount their experiences of being exoticized, subtly and otherwise, as sexual objects. The new data reveal how race, gender, and sexuality intersect in the lives of Asian Americans. The text retains all the features of the renowned first edition, which offered the first in-depth exploration of how Asian Americans experience and cope with everyday racism. The book depicts the “double consciousness” of many Asian Americans—experiencing racism but feeling the pressures to conform to popular images of their group as America’s highly achieving “model minority.”
FEATURES OF THE SECOND EDITION
- Adds significant new interview data that deepens the book’s intersectional analysis, showing that Asian women feel sexually exoticized and Asian men feel emasculated in America’s male hierarchy
- Includes many new examples of recent anti-Asian incidents in the United States such as viral YouTube video “Asians in the Library,” the significance of the emergence of NBA player Jeremy Lin, and the confession of CBS news anchor Julie Chen that she had plastic surgery to change her “Asian facial features” for her media career
- Covers the 2013 large-scale survey by the Pew Research Center and updated mental health statistics, among other new studies
- Fully updated new edition reveals the “double consciousness” experienced by Asian Americans
Asian American Sexual Politics: The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Published on June 7, 2012.
Why should we study Asian Americans Sexual Politics? This book explores the socio-political dimensions of beauty, self-esteem, and sexual attraction among Asian Americans. By evaluating constructions of Asian American gender and sexuality, it informs us on how racism, specifically white supremacy, works in the United States. The externally imposed meanings placed upon Asian and Asian American bodies unveils the new racism in this supposed “post-racial” United States. The goal of this book is to not only share the experiences of my more than sixty respondents, but to continue the dialogue that other scholars have already begun about the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Social forces shape our lives. Ideas are normalized about our identities that may influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions. To progress racially in the United States, we must recognize the role of power, privilege and see white hegemonic masculinity in its various forms and the way it shapes how we see the world. As a result of normalized hegemonic ideology, we can fail to deconstruct our world, motivations, preferences, and “choices.” My Asian American respondents see the world through “frames.” They can be “multi-framers” who possess ideology from a “white racial frame,” and simultaneously draw from “counter-frames” that are in conflict with each other. Individuals make sense of their world through these frames and are either shaped by white social structure or at odds with oppressive powers. This book explores how racism affects Asian American body image, self-esteem, and influences our most intimate relationships.
Reviews:
Bravo! In a highly original analysis Rosalind Chou demonstrates that the hypersexualization of Asian American women and men links closely to white racial framing and domination. Asian American men face racialized castration, women exoticized sexualization--in both cases sustaining dominant images of white male superiority and virility while doing much damage to the self-esteem and health of Asian Americans. Significantly too, Chou concludes with a savvy assessment of Asian Americans' coping and countering strategies for racialized and sexualized oppression. -- Joe Feagin, Ella McFadden professor of sociology, Texas A&M University
While a vibrant theoretical literature exists on the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality, little has been written about how individuals encounter and reflect on the connection between these forms of difference. Rosalind Chou's provocative study fills this void. Drawing upon the lived experiences of her Asian American respondents, she demonstrates the persistence of white hegemonic notions of race, femininity, and masculinity, and the difficulty of developing 'counter frames' to oppressive discourses. -- Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley
Why should we study Asian Americans Sexual Politics? This book explores the socio-political dimensions of beauty, self-esteem, and sexual attraction among Asian Americans. By evaluating constructions of Asian American gender and sexuality, it informs us on how racism, specifically white supremacy, works in the United States. The externally imposed meanings placed upon Asian and Asian American bodies unveils the new racism in this supposed “post-racial” United States. The goal of this book is to not only share the experiences of my more than sixty respondents, but to continue the dialogue that other scholars have already begun about the intersection of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Social forces shape our lives. Ideas are normalized about our identities that may influence our thoughts, feelings, and actions. To progress racially in the United States, we must recognize the role of power, privilege and see white hegemonic masculinity in its various forms and the way it shapes how we see the world. As a result of normalized hegemonic ideology, we can fail to deconstruct our world, motivations, preferences, and “choices.” My Asian American respondents see the world through “frames.” They can be “multi-framers” who possess ideology from a “white racial frame,” and simultaneously draw from “counter-frames” that are in conflict with each other. Individuals make sense of their world through these frames and are either shaped by white social structure or at odds with oppressive powers. This book explores how racism affects Asian American body image, self-esteem, and influences our most intimate relationships.
Reviews:
Bravo! In a highly original analysis Rosalind Chou demonstrates that the hypersexualization of Asian American women and men links closely to white racial framing and domination. Asian American men face racialized castration, women exoticized sexualization--in both cases sustaining dominant images of white male superiority and virility while doing much damage to the self-esteem and health of Asian Americans. Significantly too, Chou concludes with a savvy assessment of Asian Americans' coping and countering strategies for racialized and sexualized oppression. -- Joe Feagin, Ella McFadden professor of sociology, Texas A&M University
While a vibrant theoretical literature exists on the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality, little has been written about how individuals encounter and reflect on the connection between these forms of difference. Rosalind Chou's provocative study fills this void. Drawing upon the lived experiences of her Asian American respondents, she demonstrates the persistence of white hegemonic notions of race, femininity, and masculinity, and the difficulty of developing 'counter frames' to oppressive discourses. -- Michael Omi, University of California, Berkeley
The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism (2008)
In this pathbreaking book sociologists Rosalind Chou and Joe Feagin examine, for the first time in depth, racial stereotyping and discrimination daily faced by Asian Americans long viewed by whites as the model minority. Drawing on more than 40 field interviews across the country, they examine the everyday lives of Asian Americans in numerous different national origin groups. Their data contrast sharply with white-honed, especially media, depictions of racially untroubled Asian American success. Many hypocritical whites make sure that Asian Americans know their racially inferior place in U.S. society so that Asian people live lives constantly oppressed and stressed by white racism. The authors explore numerous instances of white-imposed discrimination faced by Asian Americans in a variety of settings, from elementary schools to college settings, to employment, to restaurants and other public accommodations. The responses of Asian Americans to the U.S. racial hierarchy and its rationalizing racist framing are traced with some Asian Americans choosing to conform aggressively to whiteness and others choosing to resist actively the imposition of the U.S. brand of anti-Asian oppression. This book destroys any naive notion that Asian Americans are universally favored by whites and have an easy time adapting to life in this still racist society.
Reviews:
Most Americans believe Asian Americans are content, do not suffer from discrimination, and are all in the path to whiteness. Chou and Feagin document convincingly with interview data that they are not content, suffer from discrimination, and are, for the most part, regarded as perpetual foreigners. Bravo to the authors for bringing to the fore the racial oppression endured by Asian Americans! --Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University
Through a compelling analysis of white racism experienced by Asian Americans in their everyday lives, Chou and Feagin offer an insightful critique of research on assimilation that focuses on indicators of integration while ignoring the serious forms of racism examined in this book. --Leland T. Saito, University of Southern California
This landmark work covers new research ground in documenting the significant yet unrecognized barriers of discrimination and marginalization faced by Asian Americans in the United States today. As an often invisible and silent minority, Asian Americans can at last find voice in this brilliant work that recognizes the reality of their experience. The courage, nobility, and honesty of the authors will assist all involved in the struggle for equity and inclusion. --Edna B. Chun, Broward Community College
Reviews:
Most Americans believe Asian Americans are content, do not suffer from discrimination, and are all in the path to whiteness. Chou and Feagin document convincingly with interview data that they are not content, suffer from discrimination, and are, for the most part, regarded as perpetual foreigners. Bravo to the authors for bringing to the fore the racial oppression endured by Asian Americans! --Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University
Through a compelling analysis of white racism experienced by Asian Americans in their everyday lives, Chou and Feagin offer an insightful critique of research on assimilation that focuses on indicators of integration while ignoring the serious forms of racism examined in this book. --Leland T. Saito, University of Southern California
This landmark work covers new research ground in documenting the significant yet unrecognized barriers of discrimination and marginalization faced by Asian Americans in the United States today. As an often invisible and silent minority, Asian Americans can at last find voice in this brilliant work that recognizes the reality of their experience. The courage, nobility, and honesty of the authors will assist all involved in the struggle for equity and inclusion. --Edna B. Chun, Broward Community College