AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Swedish Americans, Racialization, Bhagat Singh Thind
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1/19 gendered history of asian american popular culture. Beginning of text: roadmap to ideas in the text. For robert lee, the labor market and the family - he primary metaphor for the nation - are the key categories to keep in mind when considering the ways in which asians in. Between 1820 and civil war, growth of industries created what we now understand as the middle class family: father who worked, wife who kept home. Mass migration vs. notions of gender / domesticity. Ideal characteristics of a woman: piety, purity, domesticity, submissiveness. Le on victorian domesticity and the third sex . Oriental sexuality was constructed as ambiguous, inscrutable, and hermaphroditic; the. Oriental (male or female) was constructed as a third sex" - marjorie garber"s term for a gender of imagined sexual possibility (85) Unequal relationship of families (immigrant chinese men coming, maybe bring wife later if lucky vs. established white families)
