The racial mundane : Asian American performance and the embodied everyday / Ju Yon Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Ju Yon, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human behavior--Social aspects--United States.

Human behavior.

Human body--Social aspects--United States.

Human body.

Habit--Social aspects--United States.

Habit.

Social interaction--United States.

Social interaction.

Performance--Social aspects--United States.

Performance.

Asian Americans--Cultural assimilation--United States.

Asian Americans.

Asian Americans--History.

Asian Americans--Social conditions.

Asian Americans--Societies, etc.

Ethnic neighborhoods--United States--History.

Ethnic neighborhoods.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Asian Americans--Social life and customs.

Human behavior--Social aspects.

Human body--Social aspects.

Performance--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Asian American performance and the embodied everyday

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : New York University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association Across the twentieth century, national controversies involving Asian Americans have drawn attention to such seemingly unremarkable activities as eating rice, greeting customers, and studying for exams. While public debates about Asian Americans have invoked "idian practices to support inconsistent claims about racial difference, diverse aesthetic projects have tested these claims by experimenting with the relationships among habit, body, and identity. In The Racial Mundane, Ju Yon Kim argues that the ambiguous relationship between behavioral tendencies and the body has sustained paradoxical characterizations of Asian Americans as ideal and impossible Americans. The body’s uncertain attachment to its routine motions promises alternately to materialize racial distinctions and to dissolve them. Kim’s study focuses on works of theater, fiction, and film that explore the interface between racialized bodies and everyday enactments to reveal new and latent affiliations. The various modes of performance developed in these works not only encourage audiences to see habitual behaviors differently, but also reveal the stakes of noticing such behaviors at all. Integrating studies of race, performance, and the everyday, The Racial Mundane invites readers to reflect on how and to what effect perfunctory behaviors become objects of public scrutiny.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Ambiguous habits and the paradox of Asian American racial formation

Trying on the yellow jacket at the limits of our town : the routines of race and nation

Everyday rituals and the performance of community

Making change : interracial conflict, cross-racial performance

Homework becomes you : the model minority and its doubles

Afterword: The everyday Asian American online.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

Other Format:

Print version: Kim, Ju Yon. Racial mundane.

ISBN:

9781479837519

1-4798-3751-2

OCLC:

923734884