The heathen, the plague, and the model minority: Perpetual self-assessment of Asian Americans as a panoptic mechanism
Incidents of racism against Asians have been rising since the COVID-19 pandemic turned global in early 2020. Employing Foucault’s concept of panopticism and Kathryn Lofton’s insights on the function of religion to demarcate group boundaries, this article argues that American religion constructs Asia...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2021
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Critical research on religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 9, Issue: 3, Pages: 265-283 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ COVID-19 (Disease)
/ Pandemic
/ Racism
/ Asians
/ Whites
/ Hegemony
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion KBM Asia KBQ North America ZA Social sciences ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Covid-19
B Racism B Asian American B American Religion B Foucault |
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