Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture
New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
Format: Book
Description: xi, 215 pages ; 23 cm.
In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, revealing ambiguity to be paramount to a more nuanced understanding both of race and of what it means to be Asian American. Exploring a variety of subjects and cultural artifacts, Ho reveals how Asian American subjects evince a deep racial ambiguity that unmoors the concept of race from any fixed or finite understanding. She argues that race is an abstraction that we treat as concrete, a construct that reflects only our desires, fears, and anxieties, and seeing race as ambiguous puts us one step closer to a potential antidote to racism.--From publisher description.
Series: Asian American studies today.
Contents:
Introduction: Ambiguous Americans -- From enemy alien to assimilating American : Yoshiko deLeon and the mixed-marriage policy of the Japanese American incarceration -- Anti-sentimental loss : stories of transracial/transnational Asian American adult adoptees in the blogosphere -- Cablinasian dreams, Amerasian realities : transcending race in the twenty-first century and other myths broken by Tiger Woods -- Ambiguous movements and mobile subjectivity : passing in-between autobiography and fiction with Paisley Rekdal and Ruth Ozeki -- Transgressive texts and ambiguous authors : racial ambiguity in Asian American literature -- Coda: Ending with origins : my own racial ambiguity.
Subjects:
American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
Asian Americans in popular culture.
Asian Americans -- Race identity.
Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States.
American literature -- Asian American authors -- History and criticism.
Asian Americans in popular culture.
Asian Americans -- Race identity.
Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States.
ISBN:
9780813570709
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Essays Ho | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/3/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-205) and index.