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The biopolitics of mixing : Thai multiracialities and haunted ascendancies / by Jinthana Haritaworn.

Van Pelt Library HT1523 .H37 2012
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Language:
English
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Physical Description:
x, 187 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
Summary:
Exploring people of part-Thai parentage in Britain and Germany, Haritaworn (gender, race, and environment, York U., Canada) discusses haunted origins, where you are from, regenerating racialized bodies, whether it is better to be mixed race, from marginal man to Obama, metro-normativity and mimeticism, and performing Thai femininity. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Contents:
  • Introduction: haunted origins
  • What are you?
  • From monster to fashion model: regenerating multiracialized bodies
  • Is it better to be mixed race?
  • Hybrid nations, mixed feelings: from marginal man to Obama
  • Exceptional cities, exceptional citizens: metronormativity and mimeticism
  • Reckoning with prostitutes: performing Thai femininity
  • Conclusion: where do we want to go?
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
  • 9780754676805
  • 0754676803
OCLC:
782993974

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