Chinese American mothering : Toy Len Goon's legacy and the myth of the model minority / Andrea Louie.
2025
F30.C5
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Title
Chinese American mothering : Toy Len Goon's legacy and the myth of the model minority / Andrea Louie.
Author
ISBN
1479848220 (electronic book)
9781479848225 (electronic book)
1479855561
1479859907
9781479855568
9781479859900
9781479848225 (electronic book)
1479855561
1479859907
9781479855568
9781479859900
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2025]
Copyright
©2025.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations
Call Number
F30.C5
Dewey Decimal Classification
974.1/043092
Summary
"Toy Len Goon, a Chinese immigrant widow who raised eight children while running their family laundry, was selected as U.S. Mother of the Year in 1952. What does her legacy mean to her descendants as they grapple with changing meanings of the model minority myth that her story was used to create?"-- Provided by publisher.
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Print version: 9781479859900
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Chinese migrants the state: Dogan Goon's emigration story
Toy Len Goon's migration story: Pre-Mother of the Year Award
Kinship ties across borders: A transnational family separated by the Cold War
Counter cultures: The place and space of the Chinese laundry
Mother of the Year Award: Being "Good" Chinese Americans during the Cold War
"One lifetime is like other people's working four": Toy Len Goon's story as told by herself and others
Dirty laundry (or keeping clean laundry clean): The legacy of the model minority myth.
Toy Len Goon's migration story: Pre-Mother of the Year Award
Kinship ties across borders: A transnational family separated by the Cold War
Counter cultures: The place and space of the Chinese laundry
Mother of the Year Award: Being "Good" Chinese Americans during the Cold War
"One lifetime is like other people's working four": Toy Len Goon's story as told by herself and others
Dirty laundry (or keeping clean laundry clean): The legacy of the model minority myth.