Asian American Identities, Relationships, and Post-Migration Legacies: Reflections from Marriage and Family Therapists [Hardcover]

Introduction;?Part I: Contextualizing Silence and Invisibility? 1. Asian Americans Invisibilization and Racialization: Our Transcontextual Journeys? 2.Unraveling Asian American Stereotypes: The Model Minority Myth, Honorary Whiteness, and Forever Foreigner? 3.Racialized Genders Rupturing of Asian American Identities and Relationships? Part II: Resistance, Resilience, and Imagined Possibilities ?4.Beyond White Caricatures and Portrayals: Asian American Therapists Shifting the Narrative? 5.Surviving Racism Across the Generations: Quiet Fortitude to Active Resistance and Collective Healing? 6.Therapy as Activism: Transforming Therapy Spaces and Healing Communities? Part III: Transforming our Inheritance ?7. Constructing Shame Resilience as Asian Americans: Face, Race, and Bicultural Identity? 8. Relational Ethics at the Heart of Asian American Family Systems? 9.The Next Generation: Evolution of Asian American Identity in the Face of the U.S.s Racial Justice Movement

Editors/authors ChenFeng and Kim have created a gem. It is not a how-to manual. Instead, it is an invitation to reflect upon Asian and Asian American identities, (in)visibility, race, and the contextualization of a highly minoritized and stereotyped people. Authors draw from their own varied experiences as Asian Americans, immigrants, multi-ethnic folks, and marriage and family therapists, while harnessing critical tools of scholarly inquiry. This book meets an urgent need for practitioners and readers to understand historical and recent trauma, shame, resilience while equipping themselves to understand, support, intervene and advocate. I recommend this book most highly to all systemic therapists and trainees.

Mudita Rastogi, PhD, LMFT, Clinical Professor and McCormick Tribune Foundation Chair in Family Therapy, MSMFT Program, The Family Institute at Northwestern University