A Race So Different: Performance and Law in Asian America

A Race So Different: Performance and Law in Asian America (Postmillennial Pop, 8)

Winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education
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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 DifferentÂ explores the legal paradox whereby U.S. law apprehends the Asian American body as simultaneously excluded from and included within the national body politic.

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Bringing together broadly defined forms of performance, from artistic works such as Madame Butterfly to the Supreme Courtâ€™s oral arguments in the Cambodian American deportation cases of the twenty-first century, this book invites conversation about how Asian American performance uses the stage to document, interrogate, and complicate the processes of racialization in U.S. law. Through his impressive use of a rich legal and cultural archive, Chambers-Letson articulates a robust understanding of the construction of social and racial realities in the contemporary United States.
Country USA
Brand New York University Press
Manufacturer NYU Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
ReleaseDate 2013-12-02
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780814769966

Country	USA
Brand	New York University Press
Manufacturer	NYU Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
ReleaseDate	2013-12-02
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780814769966

A Race So Different: Performance and Law in Asian America (Postmillennial Pop, 8)

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