A Race So Different : Performance and Law in Asian America / Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chambers-Letson, Joshua Takano.

Series:

Postmillennial pop.

Postmillenial Pop Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian Americans and mass media--History.

Asian Americans and mass media.

Asian Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History.

Asian Americans.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction: performance, law, and the race so different

That may be Japanese law, but not in my country : Madame Butterfly and the problem of law

Justice for my son : staging reparative justice in Ping Chong's chinoiserie

Pledge of allegiance: performing patriotism in the Japanese American concentration camps

The nail that stands out: the political performativity of the Moriyuki Shimada scrapbook

Illegal immigrant acts : dengue fever and the racialization of Cambodian America

Conclusion : virtually legal.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8147-4525-3

OCLC:

861536771