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Author Cheah, Joseph, author
Title Anti-Asian racism : myths, stereotypes, and Catholic social teachings / Joseph Cheah
Publisher Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, [2023]




Description 1 online resource ( unpaged) : illustrations
Series ebook collection (EBSCOhost)
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index
Note Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 08, 2023)
Local Note Single user license
Subject Asian Americans -- Civil rights
Racism -- United States
Racism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
Christianity and culture -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
United States -- Race relations
Local Subj -- E-Books
ISBN 9781608339419
1608339416
OCLC # ebs3389925

Table of Contents

 Introduction1
 Race, Racism, and the Pastoral Letter5
 Catholic Social Teaching9
 Whiteness and White Supremacy11
 Other Terms and Their Uses When We Talk about Race and Racism15
 Organization of This Volume17
1.Yellow Peril21
 Yellow Peril in the Nineteenth Century24
 Irish and Chinese Immigrants29
 Religion, Race, and Chinese Exclusion32
 Early Chinese American Civil Rights Activists44
 Yellow Peril Today48
 AAPI Health Care Workers51
 Stigmatized by the Actions of a Few54
 Conclusion and Theological Reflection56
2.Model Minority Myth63
 A Model Based on a Fallacy64
 Racial Positioning70
 Case Study: Racial Positionings of Black and Asian Americans74
 Racism as "Powerless Defense"81
 Asian Americans in Danger86
 Confronting White Supremacy88
 Anti-Blackness and Colorism102
 Conclusion and Theological Reflection108
3.Perpetual Foreigner116
 System of Racial Microaggressions117
 Autobiography of Jung Young Lee121
 Theology of Marginality124
 In-Between Stage125
 In-Both Stage126
 In-Beyond Stage127
 Lee's Critique of Centrist Thinking129
 System of Knowledge Dissemination131
 Connections between Black and Asian American Oppressions and Liberations134
 Normalization of Racial and Social Injustice142
 Conclusion and Theological Reflection145
 Conclusion153
 What We Know about Jesus154
 Theological Basis for the Good News for the Poor160
 Preferential Option for the Poor162
 Principles of Solidarity, the Common Good, and Subsidiarity165
 Acknowledgments171
 Index173
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