Asian American Studies and Model Minority Critique Journal of Social Issues Special Issue 1973

Society for the Psychological Study

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Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. Asian Americans: A Success Story? (1973) constitutes an early academic challenge to the “model minority” framework applied to Asian Americans in the post–Civil Rights United States. Published as a special issue of The Journal of Social Issues, the volume supports research into Asian American studies, social psychology, and race discourse by interrogating narratives of assimilation and success. The issue examines structural inequality, discrimination, and intra-community diversity, positioning Asian American experience within broader debates about race, identity, and social policy during the 1970s.
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. The Journal of Social Issues. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, 1973. Volume 29, Number 2. Quarto. Perfect-bound illustrated wrappers. The issue includes contributions such as Stanley L. M. Fong’s analysis of Chinese American assimilation and changing social roles; Derald Wing Sue and Austin C. Frank’s typological study of Chinese and Japanese American college men; Bernard B. Berk and Lucie Cheng Hirata’s examination of mental illness among Chinese Americans; Minako K. Maykovich’s work on Japanese American youth political activity; and Richard A. Kalish and Sharon Moriwaki’s study of elderly Asian Americans. Articles collectively address generational conflict, psychological stress, and the effects of racial categorization. The front and rear covers feature documentary photographs of Chinatown, Los Angeles, credited to Vivian Tong Nagy, depicting street-level urban scenes that visually ground the issue’s analytical focus in lived community environments.
Quarto journal issue. Perfect-bound wrappers. Illustrated covers. Light creasing to spine and wrappers with mild edge wear; binding intact; pages clean and legible; overall very good condition. Produced during a formative period in the development of Asian American scholarship, the issue provides concentrated evidence of early interdisciplinary efforts to critique dominant racial narratives, offering substantial value for the study of ethnicity, psychology, and the evolution of academic discourse on race in the United States.

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