The Racial Mundane : Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday /

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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 incon...

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Autor principal: Kim, Ju Yon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ethnic & Race Studies.
Social Sciences.
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social interaction.
Race relations.
Performance > Social aspects.
Human body > Social aspects.
Human behavior > Social aspects.
Asian Americans > Social life and customs.
Asian Americans > Social conditions.
Asian Americans > Race identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Americains d'origine asiatique > Identite ethnique.
Americains d'origine asiatique > Conditions sociales.
Americains d'origine asiatique > Moeurs et coutumes.
Rendement au travail > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Interaction sociale > États-Unis.
Habitude > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Comportement humain > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Performance > Social aspects > United States.
Social interaction > United States.
Habit > Social aspects > United States.
Human body > Social aspects > United States.
Human behavior > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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. In The Racial Mundane, Ju Yon Kim 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. Kim's study 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 Racial Mundane invites readers to reflect on how and to what effect perfunctory behaviors become objects of public scrutiny"--Publisher's website.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 pages).
ISBN:9781479837519

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