A Postcolonial Relationship: Challenges of Asian Immigrants as the Third Other

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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. 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