The color of success: Asian Americans and the origins of the model minority

Acknowledgments xi Introduction Imperatives of Asian American Citizenship 1 Part I War and the Assimilating Other 11 Chapter 1 Leave Your Zoot Suits Behind 16 Chapter 2 How American Are We? 43 Chapter 3 Nisei in Uniform 72 Chapter 4 America's Chinese 111 Part II Definitively Not-Black 145 Chapter 5 Success Story, Japanese American Style 150 Chapter 6 Chinatown Offers Us a Lesson 181 Chapter 7 The Melting Pot of the Pacific 210 Epilogue Model Minority/Asian American 242 Notes 259 Archival, Primary, and Unpublished Sources 333 Index 341