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Consuming Citizenship investigates how Korean American and Chinese American children of entrepreneurial immigrants demonstrate their social citizenship as Americans through conspicuous consumption. The American immigrant entrepreneur has played a central role in projecting the American ideology of freedom and equality. The children of these immigrants are seen as evidence of an open society. While it appears that these children have readily adapted to American culture, questions remain as to why second-generation Asian Americans feel compelled to convince others of their legitimacy and the way they go about asserting their citizenship status. Extending our understanding of such children beyond the traditional emphasis on assimilation, the author argues that their consumptive behavior is a significant expression of their paradoxical position as citizens who saddle the boundaries of social inclusion and exclusion.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political control & freedoms

• Full title: Consuming Citizenship
• Subtitle: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs
• Author: Lisa Sun-Hee Park
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 184
• EAN: 9780804752473
• ISBN: 0804752478
• ID: 04717986
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 367 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 22. August 2005

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