The Minor Intimacies of Race : Asian Publics in North America / Christine Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Christine, 1973- author.

Series:

Asian American experience.

The Asian American experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intimacy (Psychology)--Social aspects--Canada.

Intimacy (Psychology).

Intimacy (Psychology)--Social aspects--United States.

Racism--Canada.

Racism.

Racism--United States.

Asians--Canada--Public opinion.

Asians.

Asian Americans--Public opinion.

Asian Americans.

Public opinion--North America.

Public opinion.

Asians--North America--Public opinion.

Canada--Race relations.

Canada.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana, [Illinois] ; Chicago, [Illinois] ; Springfield, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"An attempt to put an Asian woman on Canada's $100 bill in 2012 unleashed enormous controversy. The racism and xenophobia that answered this symbolic move toward inclusiveness revealed the nation's trumpeted commitment to multiculturalism as a lie. It also showed how multiple minor publics as well as the dominant public responded to the ongoing issue of race in Canada. In this new study, Christine Kim delves into the ways cultural conversations minimize race's relevance even as violent expressions and structural forms of racism continue to occur. Kim turns to literary texts, artistic works, and media debates to highlight the struggles of minor publics with social intimacy. Her insightful engagement with everyday conversations as well as artistic expressions that invoke the figure of the Asian allows Kim to reveal the affective dimensions of racialized publics. It also extends ongoing critical conversations within Asian Canadian and Asian American studies about Orientalism, diasporic memory, racialized citizenship, and migration and human rights"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Multiculturalism, Minor Publics, and Social Intimacy

National Incompletion : Awkward Multiculturalisms and Denaturalizing Whiteness

Transnational Triviality : Print and Digital Asian North American Publics

Diasporic Fragility and Brokenness : Korean War Legacies and Structures of Feeling

Global Loss : Metaphoric Substitution and the Logic of Human Rights

Conclusion: Ephemeral Publics and Roy Kiyooka's Stoned Gloves.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780252098338

0252098331

OCLC:

945875179