Racial melancholia, racial dissociation : on the social and psychic lives of Asian Americans

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Racial melancholia, racial dissociation : on the social and psychic lives of Asian Americans

Title remainder

on the social and psychic lives of Asian Americans

Statement of responsibility

David L. Eng & Shinhee Han

Creator

• Eng, David L., 1967-

Contributor

• Han, Shinhee, 1963-

Author

• Eng, David L., 1967-
• Han, Shinhee, 1963-

Subject

• Asian diaspora
• Asians -- United States
• Asian American gays
• Race -- Psychological aspects
• Model minority stereotype -- United States
• Asian American youth
• Asian Americans -- Race identity

Language

eng

Summary

"Critic David L. Eng and psychotherapist Shinhee Han draw on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought, they develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration, displacement, diaspora, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties, from depression, suicide, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype, transnational adoption, parachute children, colorblind discourses in the United States, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race, sexuality, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora"--

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Publisher's description

Cataloging source

NcD/DLC

Dewey number

973/.0495

Index

index present

LC call number

E184.A75

LC item number

E54 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography