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Inscrutable eating : Asian appetites and the rhetorics of racial consumption / Jennifer Lin LeMesurier.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- LeMesurier, Jennifer Lin, 1985- author.
- Series:
- Intersectional rhetorics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Asian Americans--Food--Social aspects.
- Asian Americans.
- Food--Social aspects--United States.
- Food.
- Food habits--Social aspects--United States.
- Food habits.
- Food habits--Cross-cultural studies.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology).
- Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.
- Rhetoric--Social aspects.
- Rhetoric.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 152 pages) : illustrations (black and white.
- Place of Publication:
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2023]
- Contents:
- Gut orientations
- Rat eaters : defining American masculinity in opposition to Asian deviance
- Bat lovers : the threat of Asian appetites to US national embodiment
- MSG users : phantasies of health as race neutral
- "Too sensitive" speakers : the limits on Asian emotion in the public sphere
- Conclusion: Unmooring habits of taste.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-145) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780814282816 (electronic bk.)
- 0814282814 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40031652097
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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