A Postmodern Psychology of Asian Americans
eBook - PDF

A Postmodern Psychology of Asian Americans

Creating Knowledge of a Racial Minority

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

A Postmodern Psychology of Asian Americans

Creating Knowledge of a Racial Minority

About this book

Challenges existing paradigms of knowledge as they relate to Asian Americans.

Focusing on race, culture, acculturation, ethnicity, and ethnic identity-concepts commonly used to account for the behaviors of Asian Americans and other minorities-A Postmodern Psychology of Asian Americans examines the effects of modern psychology's epistemological and ontological premises on its investigative methods and concepts. Author Laura Uba looks at the social creation of psychological facts, including portrayals of ethnic and racial groups, and demonstrates, especially in ways pertinent to the study of minorities, that modern psychology needs to reconsider its ways of thinking about study samples, investigative methods, facts, and concepts used to describe and explain behaviors.

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Table of contents

  1. A Postmodern Psychology of Asian Americans
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Preface
  5. 1. Modernist Epistemology
  6. 2. Postmodernism
  7. 3. Privileged Methodological Texts and Narratives
  8. 4. Constructions of Race and Culture
  9. 5. Acculturation and Assimilation
  10. 6. Ethnicity and Identity
  11. 7. Conclusion
  12. APPENDIX A: Traditional Types of Psychological Studies
  13. APPENDIX B: Deconstructing in the Classroom
  14. Notes
  15. References
  16. Name Index
  17. Subject Index