Status
Available
Call number
Series
Publication
NYU Press (2013), 279 pages
DDC/MDS
342.7308 |
Description
Taking a performance studies approach to understanding Asian American racial subjectivity, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson argues that the law influences racial formation by compelling Asian Americans to embody and perform recognizable identities in both popular aesthetic forms (such as theater, opera, or rock music) and in the rituals of everyday life. Tracing the production of Asian American selfhood from the era of Asian Exclusion through the Global War on Terror, A Race So Different explores the legal paradox whereby U.S. law apprehends the Asian American body as simultaneously excluded fr
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
279 p.; 6 inches
ISBN
0814769969 / 9780814769966