The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority
byMARK ERIC KRAMER is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Oklahoma. He is a member of the editorial board of various journals and has published extensively. Among his latest books are Modern/Postmodern: Off the Beaten Path of Antimodernism and Postmodernism and Race.
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Kramer brings together experts from a variety of minority backgrounds and from around the world to give their perspectives on the most pervasive ideology today, globalism. The basic premise is that a developed country is different from a developed community. They need not be mutually exclusive, but neither is it assumed that they are necessarily consonant.
The various essays offer answers to such vital questions as What does it mean to become a 'global citizen'? and What does it mean to be a 'model minority' in a global economy? The process of becoming a mainstream person involves being first marginalized with the implication that something is inadequate about one's self. The process of assimilationism is manifested as various forms of enforced and/or rewarded acculturation. With the vast human migration currently underway, the notion of assimilation has become a global phenomenon. What is occurring, Kramer and his colleagues demonstrate, is a worldwide shift from the village milieu to the city lifestyle. This migration is seen as a polycentric and global phenomenon whereby the promised land is nowhere in particular, but, instead, a way of life and mindset, an urban lifestyle. This process is far more than a simple change in geography. Moving from the village to the cityscape involves a mutation in worldview and self-identity. Additional questions asked throughout the collection are What set of persuasive assumptions are leading the world in this direction? and What might be lost in the process? A provocative collection for scholars, students, and other researchers involved with development studies, multiculturalism, and urbanization.
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority
Author(s): Kramer, Eric;Contributors: Kramer, Eric;Abstract:Kramer brings together experts from a variety of minority backgrounds and from around the world to give their perspectives on the most pervasive ideology today, globalism. The basic premise is that a developed country is different from a developed community. They need not be mutually exclusive, but neither is it assumed that they are necessarily consonant.
The various essays offer answers to such vital questions as What does it mean to become a 'global citizen'? and What does it mean to be a 'model minority' in a global economy? The process of becoming a mainstream person involves being first marginalized with the implication that something is inadequate about one's self. The process of assimilationism is manifested as various forms of enforced and/or rewarded acculturation. With the vast human migration currently underway, the notion of assimilation has become a global phenomenon. What is occurring, Kramer and his colleagues demonstrate, is a worldwide shift from the village milieu to the city lifestyle. This migration is seen as a polycentric and global phenomenon whereby the promised land is nowhere in particular, but, instead, a way of life and mindset, an urban lifestyle. This process is far more than a simple change in geography. Moving from the village to the cityscape involves a mutation in worldview and self-identity. Additional questions asked throughout the collection are What set of persuasive assumptions are leading the world in this direction? and What might be lost in the process? A provocative collection for scholars, students, and other researchers involved with development studies, multiculturalism, and urbanization.
SortTitle: emerging monoculture: assimilation and the model minorityAuthor Info:Eric KramerauthorMARK ERIC KRAMER is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Oklahoma. He is a member of the editorial board of various journals and has published extensively. Among his latest books are Modern/Postmodern: Off the Beaten Path of Antimodernism and Postmodernism and Race.
eISBN-13: 9780313059537Cover Image URL: ~~FreeAttachments/9780313059537.jpgPrint ISBN-13: 9780275973124Imprint: PraegerPages: 352Publication Date: 20030228Series: Non-SeriesSubtitle: Assimilation and the Model Minority- Contents vii6
- Acknowledgments ix8
- Introduction: Assimilation and the Model Minority Ideology xi10
- 1. Gaiatsu and Cultural Judo 122
- 2. The Hidden Justification for Assimilation, Multiculturalism, and the Prospects for Democracy 3354
- 3. Adopting the Caucasian "Look": Reorganizing the Minority Face 4162
- 4. The Violence of Assimilation and Psychological Well-Being 7596
- 5. The Ainu: A Discourse on Being Japanese 85106
- 6. Headache and Heartbreak: The Elusiveness of "Model Minority" Status Attainment for African Americans 110131
- 7. Being Disabled in Modern Japan: A Minority Perspective 124145
- 8. Successful Indians: Benevolent Assimilation and Indian Identity 139160
- 9. Abandoned People in Japan: The First Generation of Koreans in Japan 159180
- 10. Old and New Worlds 174195
- 11. Demythologizing the "Model Minority" 191212
- 12. Asian Indians and the Model Minority Narrative: A Neocolonial System 203224
- 13. A World of Cookie-Cutter Faces 221242
- 14. Cosmopoly: Occidentalism and the New World Order 234255
- Selected Bibliography 293314
- Name Index 309330
- Subject Index 317338
- Contributors 329350