从黄祸到模范少数民族再回头——解读新冠肺炎时代亚裔的东方主义代表

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E. Cho
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摘要随着新冠肺炎疫情在美国迅速蔓延,反亚裔仇外心理和针对亚裔美国人的歧视行为大幅增加。但疾病、种族主义和仇外心理之间的联系在亚裔美国人的历史上并不新鲜。从19世纪90年代到50年代,亚裔美国人主要被贴上“黄色危险”的标签,从20世纪60年代到现在,他们被简单地塑造成“模范少数族裔”然而,随着新冠肺炎的爆发,有关该病毒的错误信息也在传播,公众对亚裔美国人的看法再次从“模范少数族裔”转变为“黄祸”通过研究知识和文化史,我认为“黄祸”和“模范少数民族”是东方主义者对亚裔美国人的代表,被用作霸权手段。东方主义作为一种不平等的权力关系,构成了亚裔美国人在美国寻找归属感时一直在努力克服的障碍。
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From the Yellow Peril to the Model Minority and Back Again: Unraveling the Orientalist Representations of Asian Americans in the Age of Covid-19
ABSTRACT Anti-Asian xenophobia and discriminatory acts against Asian Americans have increased significantly as the COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly spread across the US. But connections between diseases, racism, and xenophobia are not new in the history of Asian America. While from the 1890s to the 1950s, Asian Americans were primarily stigmatized with the label ‘Yellow Peril,’ from the 1960s to the present, they have been simplistically cast as the ‘model minority.’ However, with the outbreak of COVID-19, misinformation about the virus also spread, and the public perception of Asian Americans has shifted once again from their being the ‘model minority’ to being the ‘Yellow Peril.’ By looking at intellectual and cultural history, I argue that ‘Yellow Peril’ and ‘model minority’ are Orientalist representations of Asian Americans that have been used as hegemonic devices. Orientalism as a relationship of unequal power has structured the obstacles that Asian Americans have struggled against as they try to find a sense of belonging in the US.
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