Jewish

culture, 133, 142–143, 180n1

foodSee kosherfood, 129, 143–144

traditional gender roles, 144–145

Jung, Carl, 113–115, 119

kosher food 129See alsoJewish food, 143–144

Mona in the Promised Land , 123–126, 128, 133–142, 151–155, 157–159

motherhood, 35, 37, 69–70. See alsoparent/child relationships

Oreo , 122–133, 142–151, 155–157, 159–161

Our House in the Last World , 17–19, 26–38, 46–51

overeating

and ethnicity, 22–26, 141

and masculinity, 22–26, 30–31, 49

Paper Fish , 53–58, 64–70, 77–82, 86–88

parent/child relationships, 46–50, 69–72, 92–93, 96, 113–114, 146–147, 172n20, 178n3

postwar America

and ethnicitySee also assimilation, 14–15, 55–60, 175n5

family structure in, 22, 71–72, 173n5

gender ideology of, 15, 38, 58, 173n

raceSee also hybridity racial and ethnic, 13–14, 98–99, 125–128, 178n2, 183n3

sex and food, 97, 148–153, 171n16, 182n12

sexual consumption of womenSee also sex and food., 25, 29, 41–43, 100–101, 147–148

Sollors, WernerSee also consent and descent; identity formation theory, 4–5, 18, 74, 124, 126, 169n1, 170n7

suburbiaSee alsopostwar America, 56–60, 176n16

twenty-first century

census, 165–166, 182–183n1

food, 166–167, 183n5

immigration, 165–166, 183n2

multiculturalism, 165–167, 183n4

Typical American , 17–26, 33–34, 38–45, 49–50

Vietnam

food in, 111, 113–114, 117

and the United States, 111–112, 115–117, 180n24

Vietnamese American

food, 92

gender rolesSee also Confucianism, 95–96, 103–104