Since the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have developed elaborate bureaucratic procedures to manage "suspect" Asian groups. Ju Yon Kim explores the modes of engagement and contestation available to those who are subjected by the state to both relentless...
Read More about Paper Performance: Suspicion and Asian American ArchivesSince the late nineteenth century, various agencies of the U.S. government have developed elaborate bureaucratic procedures to manage "suspect" Asian groups. Ju Yon Kim explores the modes of engagement and contestation available to those who are subjected by the state to both relentless...
Read More about Paper Performance: Suspicion and Asian American ArchivesWinner, 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...
Read More about The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied EverydayWinner, 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...
Read More about The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied EverydayIn the first half of the twentieth century, a number of American theatres and theatre artists fostered interracial collaboration and socialization on stage, behind the scenes, and among audiences. In an era marked by entrenched racial segregation and inequality, these artists used performance to...
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