{"product_id":"illegal-immigrantsmodel-minorities-heidi-kim-9781439919019","title":"Illegal Immigrants\/Model Minorities: The Cold War of Chinese American Narrative","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the Cold War era, Chinese Americans were caught in a double-bind. The widespread stigma of illegal immigration, as it was often called, was most easily countered with the model minority, assimilating and forming nuclear families, but that in turn led to further stereotypes. In \u003ci\u003eIllegal Immigrants\/Model Minorities, \u003c\/i\u003eHeidi Kim investigates how Chinese American writers navigated a strategy to normalize and justify the Chinese presence during a time when fears of Communism ran high.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim explores how writers like Maxine Hong Kingston, Jade Snow Wong, and C. Y. Lee, among others, addressed issues of history, family, blood purity, and law through then-groundbreaking novels and memoirs. \u003ci\u003eIllegal Immigrants\/Model Minorities \u003c\/i\u003ealso uses legal cases, immigration documents, and law as well as mass media coverage to illustrate how writers constructed stories in relation to the political structures that allowed or disallowed their presence, their citizenship, and their blended identity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim illuminates the rapidly shifting political and social pressures on Chinese American authors who selectively concealed, revealed, and reconstructed issues of citizenship, belonging, and inclusion in their writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Heidi Kim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439919011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439919019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/12\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2022","brand":"Heidi Kim","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065588461823,"sku":"9781439919019","price":110.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_058ac709-97ee-43d7-95a1-1223ce3c7318.jpg?v=1768675967","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/illegal-immigrantsmodel-minorities-heidi-kim-9781439919019","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}