Why do authors that we studied argue that increasing
acceptance, appreciation, and inclusion of multicultural differences after World
War II does not result in challenging racial domination and racial
hierarchies established through US colonialism and imperialism? Analyze and
evaluate wartime, post-war, Cold War, and/or contemporary liberalism and its
impact on representations of Asian/Americans and/or Arab, Muslim, and South
Asians in two different historical contexts that we analyzed. How do authors
challenge or suggest that we might challenge this dominant gaze or narrative? Choose
two: Internment, liberal feminist belly dancing beginning in the 1970s, Cold
War and contemporary globalized Model Minorities (“Crazy Rich Asians” and/or
“Better Luck Tomorrow”), Refugee Exceptionalism. Focus on both
significant similarities and differences that you see. Be sure to cite, define,
analyze, and evaluate relevant keywords and concepts and to begin with an
arguable thesis (a thesis that requires evidence and analysis)