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"A Postcolonial Relationship critically examines the problems of current US racial relations from an Asian immigrant perspective and provides a new understanding of the complications that Asian immigrant groups experience as the ""third other."" Choi Hee An dismantles black/white and native/alien binary concepts from an Asian immigrant perspective and explores the deeper understandings of postcolonial relationships that Asian immigrants face. By deconstructing black/white, native/alien, and host/guest binary divides, this book addresses the current structures of sociohistorical binary paradigms, investigates the unique challenges of Asian immigrant positions, analyzes the reality of their third otherness, and explores the possibilities of transforming binary relationships into postcolonial relationships based on ethical and theological religious traditions and practices in Asian immigrant contexts."

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Author:   Hee An Choi
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438486567

ISBN 10:   1438486561
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   02 July 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Sociopolitical Postcolonial Relations of Asian Immigrants: Struggle between Black/White Racial Binary and Native/Alien Binary Black/White Racial Binary Problems in the Black/White Racial Binary Divide Native/Alien Binary What Is Nativism? Nativism as Antiforeignness Nativism as Nation Building/National Interests Who Are Natives? Territorial Controllers What Makes Them Natives? Reinvention of Territorial Racism into Nativism 2. Unique Relational Challenges for Asian Immigrants: Racial Triangulation Anti-Asian Immigrant Sentiment Minority/Nonminority Debate Internal Struggles within Asian Immigrant Groups 3. Asian Immigrants as the Third Other: The Imperfect Otherness The Third Other in Institutional Practice: Assimilation The Third Other in Social Justice Practice: Coalition Work The Third Other in Psychological Practice: Belongingness 4. Conclusion: Some Theological and Ethical Reflections on Postcolonial Relationships Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Choi Hee An is Clinical Associate Professor of Practical Theology and Director of the Anna Howard Shaw Center at Boston University School of Theology. Her books include A Postcolonial Leadership: Asian Immigrant Christian Leadership and Its Challenges and A Postcolonial Self: Korean Immigrant Theology and Church, both also published by SUNY Press.

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