The myth of the model minority: Asian Americans facing racism, by Rosalind S. Chou and Joe R. Feagin, published in 2008 by Paradigm Publishers
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to add my two cents, living in Hawai'i really is a difference experience. I've been discriminated against for being haole, which is not something most white people form the mainland would ever experience. It was kind of a shock to move to the mainland and be in the majority. I kept looking around for all the Asians and not finding them. It was really weird.
Yeah, I wondered after posting if I should have mentioned the kind of reverse discrimination. But I was (and still am, shhhh) posting from work, and I didn't feel up to covering the convoluted history thing going on with the overthrow of Liliuokalani by the plantation guys and the military presence and whatnot.
Yeah, the thing about Hawai'i is that discrimination in any direction can't be looked at in a vacuum, as you say. That being said, I would certainly never expect you to get into all of it from work. It's an interesting place, really, with its own set of history and circumstances that makes it the complex place it is today, good and bad. More good than bad, luckily ;)
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