Chinese American Mothering: Toy Len Goon's Legacy and the Myth of the Model Minority
Author
Andrea Louie
Content
viii + 326 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2025
Publisher
New York: New York University Press
Description
Uses the biography of Toy Len Goon, a widow and Chinese immigrant who raised eight children while running a laundry and was selected to be U.S. Mother of the Year in 1952, to examine topics including Americanization, gender roles, migration, race, and the state.
Main subject
Autobiography and Biography Sociology and Social Issues
Louie, Andrea. Chinese American Mothering: Toy Len Goon's Legacy and the Myth of the Model Minority. New York: New York University Press, 2025. Sylvia. Accessed May 3, 2026. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL4865.
