Christine Kim
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040139
- eISBN:
- 9780252098338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040139.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter examines how the figure of the Asian is currently positioned within the project of Canadian multiculturalism in order to discern how differently racialized bodies experience affective ...
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This chapter examines how the figure of the Asian is currently positioned within the project of Canadian multiculturalism in order to discern how differently racialized bodies experience affective and political citizenship. It critiques the assumption that Asian Canadian publics demand recognition in multicultural terms by turning to two contemporary Asian Canadian texts that explore the unfinished nature of these conversations about race: Theatre Replacement's 2007 production, Bioboxes, and Joy Kogawa's 1995 novel, The Rain Ascends. These texts, as they call for intimacy, demand recognition in different ways: the first forces the audience to be physically conscious of the racialized body with which it shares a confined space, and the second uses the genre of the confessional novel to compel the reader to witness the most mundane and personal details of the narrator's story.Less
This chapter examines how the figure of the Asian is currently positioned within the project of Canadian multiculturalism in order to discern how differently racialized bodies experience affective and political citizenship. It critiques the assumption that Asian Canadian publics demand recognition in multicultural terms by turning to two contemporary Asian Canadian texts that explore the unfinished nature of these conversations about race: Theatre Replacement's 2007 production, Bioboxes, and Joy Kogawa's 1995 novel, The Rain Ascends. These texts, as they call for intimacy, demand recognition in different ways: the first forces the audience to be physically conscious of the racialized body with which it shares a confined space, and the second uses the genre of the confessional novel to compel the reader to witness the most mundane and personal details of the narrator's story.
Michael G. Lacy and Kent A. Ono (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814762226
- eISBN:
- 9780814765296
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814762226.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the United States is enjoying a post-racial age, thanks in part to Barack Obama's rise to the presidency. This high gloss of optimism fails, ...
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According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the United States is enjoying a post-racial age, thanks in part to Barack Obama's rise to the presidency. This high gloss of optimism fails, however, to recognize that racism remains ever present and alive, spread by channels of media and circulated even in colloquial speech in ways that can be difficult to analyze. This book seeks to examine this complicated and contradictory terrain while moving the field of communication in a more intellectually productive direction. The chapters challenge traditional definitions and applications of rhetoric. From the troubling media representations of black looters after Hurricane Katrina and rhetoric in news coverage about the Columbine and Virginia Tech massacres to cinematic representations of race in Crash, Blood Diamond, and Quentin Tarantino's films, the book reveals complex intersections and constructions of racialized bodies and discourses, critiquing race in innovative and exciting ways. The book seeks not only to understand and navigate a world fraught with racism, but to change it, one word at a time.Less
According to many pundits and cultural commentators, the United States is enjoying a post-racial age, thanks in part to Barack Obama's rise to the presidency. This high gloss of optimism fails, however, to recognize that racism remains ever present and alive, spread by channels of media and circulated even in colloquial speech in ways that can be difficult to analyze. This book seeks to examine this complicated and contradictory terrain while moving the field of communication in a more intellectually productive direction. The chapters challenge traditional definitions and applications of rhetoric. From the troubling media representations of black looters after Hurricane Katrina and rhetoric in news coverage about the Columbine and Virginia Tech massacres to cinematic representations of race in Crash, Blood Diamond, and Quentin Tarantino's films, the book reveals complex intersections and constructions of racialized bodies and discourses, critiquing race in innovative and exciting ways. The book seeks not only to understand and navigate a world fraught with racism, but to change it, one word at a time.
Ju Yon Kim
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479897896
- eISBN:
- 9781479837519
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479897896.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
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 ...
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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 quotidian 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. This book 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. The book 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 book invites readers to reflect on how and to what effect perfunctory behaviors become objects of public scrutiny.Less
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 quotidian 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. This book 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. The book 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 book invites readers to reflect on how and to what effect perfunctory behaviors become objects of public scrutiny.
Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814738399
- eISBN:
- 9780814745250
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814738399.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This concluding chapter discusses Tracking Transience, a performance both of the law and for the law. It stages the surveillance techniques of the national security state as they concentrate on the ...
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This concluding chapter discusses Tracking Transience, a performance both of the law and for the law. It stages the surveillance techniques of the national security state as they concentrate on the artist's racialized body. In addition, the play demonstrates the links between law and performance in the process of racialization. To do so, it draws on the tradition of body artists, such as Hanna Wilke, Yoko Ono, Chris Burden, and Karen Finley, who use the body in performance to stage, a “dislocation of normative subjectivity, reconfiguring identity politics (the way in which the subject comes to meaning in the social) and the very parameters of subjectivity itself.”Less
This concluding chapter discusses Tracking Transience, a performance both of the law and for the law. It stages the surveillance techniques of the national security state as they concentrate on the artist's racialized body. In addition, the play demonstrates the links between law and performance in the process of racialization. To do so, it draws on the tradition of body artists, such as Hanna Wilke, Yoko Ono, Chris Burden, and Karen Finley, who use the body in performance to stage, a “dislocation of normative subjectivity, reconfiguring identity politics (the way in which the subject comes to meaning in the social) and the very parameters of subjectivity itself.”
Steven Blevins
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816697144
- eISBN:
- 9781452955315
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816697144.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
The fourth chapter explores the bio-medicalized forms of human bio-cargo to find expression in the sign of “blood” as the particularized biological “matter” of family history, now articulated in ...
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The fourth chapter explores the bio-medicalized forms of human bio-cargo to find expression in the sign of “blood” as the particularized biological “matter” of family history, now articulated in enthusiasm for DNA mapping as a way to restore family genealogies lost in the Middle Passage. The chapter looks to creative works by Bernardine Evaristo, Dorothea Smartt, and Inge Blackman, and Isaac Julien, which provide compelling anti-genealogies of intimacy and belonging irreducible to the brute substance of bio-matter.Less
The fourth chapter explores the bio-medicalized forms of human bio-cargo to find expression in the sign of “blood” as the particularized biological “matter” of family history, now articulated in enthusiasm for DNA mapping as a way to restore family genealogies lost in the Middle Passage. The chapter looks to creative works by Bernardine Evaristo, Dorothea Smartt, and Inge Blackman, and Isaac Julien, which provide compelling anti-genealogies of intimacy and belonging irreducible to the brute substance of bio-matter.
Dolores Inés Casillas
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814770658
- eISBN:
- 9780814760369
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814770658.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This concluding chapter argues that despite Spanish-language radio's momentous growth, particularly since the 1980s, it continues to lack parity, in revenue or status, with its fellow ...
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This concluding chapter argues that despite Spanish-language radio's momentous growth, particularly since the 1980s, it continues to lack parity, in revenue or status, with its fellow English-language peers. The reluctance of the landscape of commercial U.S. radio to accommodate Spanish-language radio and its Latino listenership as equal peers reflects the larger economic marginalization of racialized bodies within U.S. capitalism. In addition, the social and institutional marginalization of U.S. Latinos signals the importance and necessity for more population-sensitive research methods. Given the apprehensiveness experienced by U.S. Latinos to government and research entities, surveys and statistical samples are often statistically weighted to account for disproportionate samples.Less
This concluding chapter argues that despite Spanish-language radio's momentous growth, particularly since the 1980s, it continues to lack parity, in revenue or status, with its fellow English-language peers. The reluctance of the landscape of commercial U.S. radio to accommodate Spanish-language radio and its Latino listenership as equal peers reflects the larger economic marginalization of racialized bodies within U.S. capitalism. In addition, the social and institutional marginalization of U.S. Latinos signals the importance and necessity for more population-sensitive research methods. Given the apprehensiveness experienced by U.S. Latinos to government and research entities, surveys and statistical samples are often statistically weighted to account for disproportionate samples.
Hsunhui Tseng
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824852962
- eISBN:
- 9780824869113
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824852962.003.0013
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter states that Taiwan has seen a marriage migrant flow from China and Vietnam since the late 1990s. In early 2000s, a few matchmaking companies targeting East European women as a new ...
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This chapter states that Taiwan has seen a marriage migrant flow from China and Vietnam since the late 1990s. In early 2000s, a few matchmaking companies targeting East European women as a new foreign bride group were formed. The foreign bride phenomenon has drawn the public’s and scholars’ attention to its social consequences in the past decade. Tseng focuses on the marriage market: how does the market mechanism differentiate foreign brides’ value according to their race and nationality and match them with potential clients from different classes in Taiwan. Tseng explores how the representation of “foreign women” of different nationality were produced and reproduced by proprietors, mess media, and other social groups to meet a kind of social imaginary. Tseng argues that the reason why Vietnamese women as ideal wives can be successfully marketed by the marriage brokerage companies is that they provide a nostalgic space for the traditional families to perform their patriarchic imaginaries as they were in the early Taiwan society, in which the core value of the family was secured by the unequal gender dynamics in society.Less
This chapter states that Taiwan has seen a marriage migrant flow from China and Vietnam since the late 1990s. In early 2000s, a few matchmaking companies targeting East European women as a new foreign bride group were formed. The foreign bride phenomenon has drawn the public’s and scholars’ attention to its social consequences in the past decade. Tseng focuses on the marriage market: how does the market mechanism differentiate foreign brides’ value according to their race and nationality and match them with potential clients from different classes in Taiwan. Tseng explores how the representation of “foreign women” of different nationality were produced and reproduced by proprietors, mess media, and other social groups to meet a kind of social imaginary. Tseng argues that the reason why Vietnamese women as ideal wives can be successfully marketed by the marriage brokerage companies is that they provide a nostalgic space for the traditional families to perform their patriarchic imaginaries as they were in the early Taiwan society, in which the core value of the family was secured by the unequal gender dynamics in society.
Kumarini Silva
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781517900021
- eISBN:
- 9781452955179
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9781517900021.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Following 9/11, one of the most contested and complicated terms was the concept of home, both as a constructed nation state and an excessively romanticized belonging converged under both governmental ...
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Following 9/11, one of the most contested and complicated terms was the concept of home, both as a constructed nation state and an excessively romanticized belonging converged under both governmental and social spheres. In the second chapter, this concept of belonging is focused on by how the state and its citizens produce and act on this notion of belonging. The popular and visual culture translation of this state- mandated “homeland” facilitated the recategorization of all of America— ostensibly united and strengthened— into two populations: those who belonged and those who did not.Less
Following 9/11, one of the most contested and complicated terms was the concept of home, both as a constructed nation state and an excessively romanticized belonging converged under both governmental and social spheres. In the second chapter, this concept of belonging is focused on by how the state and its citizens produce and act on this notion of belonging. The popular and visual culture translation of this state- mandated “homeland” facilitated the recategorization of all of America— ostensibly united and strengthened— into two populations: those who belonged and those who did not.
