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Resisting immigrant myths : everyday consumer practices of Asian immigrants in America

Hu, Jing, Whittler, Tommy E. and Tian, Kelly 2012, Resisting immigrant myths : everyday consumer practices of Asian immigrants in America, Consumption, markets and culture, iFirst article, pp. 1-27.

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: School of Management and Marketing
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Title Resisting immigrant myths : everyday consumer practices of Asian immigrants in America
Author(s) Hu, Jing
Whittler, Tommy E.
Tian, Kelly
Journal name Consumption, markets and culture
Season iFirst article
Start page 1
End page 27
Total pages 27
Publisher Routledge
Place of publication Oxon, U. K.
Publication date 2012
ISSN 1025-3866
1477-223X
Keyword(s) mediascape myths
immigrant experiences
gendered consumption
resistance through consumption
rituals of consumption
Summary Projective, depth interviews with U.S. Asian immigrants revealed their ambivalence toward the U.S. commercial sector’s colonial-era representations of Asian people. These commercial representations provide polarized depictions of Asian immigrants as either threatening aliens or as model citizens. These portrayals reflect “racialized otherness,” or racial stereotyping that represent Asian immigrants as inferior. Our findings indicate that Chinese immigrants strategically use everyday consumption related to foodways to resist the reverberation of American immigrant myths. In some instances, immigrants’ consumption practices instantiate a regional Asian identity. In other instances, however, immigrants’ consumption practices reflect a separation from the past and an acceptance of a new although not exclusively American way of life. Notwithstanding immigrant consumers’ resistance practices, the findings call for future research into immigrant consumers’ reactions to visual representations of race, ethnicity, and gender.
Language eng
Field of Research 159999 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified
Socio Economic Objective 970115 Expanding Knowledge in Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Restricted until 2013-06-04
Copyright notice ©2012, Taylor & Francis
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