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Title: Perpetuates racist misperceptions about Asian Americans
Review: Mainstream U.S. publishers continue to cater to the American appetite for exotic stereotypes of Asian America, invariably penned by recent Asian immigrants who are too unaware of the history of Asian American marginalization to realize they are being exploited. In this book, Asian culture is problematized as strange and foreign. Asian American health education differs very little from that of the general U.S. population, but to the extent that it does, the real issue is overcoming the barriers of language and poverty to serve isolated immigrant communities. But Costa's concern is with selling quaint stereotypes and myths, not with the welfare of the community.
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