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The minor intimacies of race : Asian publics in North America /

"An attempt to put an Asian woman on Canada's $100 bill in 2012 unleashed enormous controversy. The racism and xenophobia that answered this symbolic move toward inclusiveness revealed the nation's trumpeted commitment to multiculturalism as a lie. It also showed how multiple minor pu...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Kim, Christine, 1973- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
Collection:Asian American experience.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Multiculturalism, Minor Publics, and Social Intimacy
  • National Incompletion : Awkward Multiculturalisms and Denaturalizing Whiteness
  • Transnational Triviality : Print and Digital Asian North American Publics
  • Diasporic Fragility and Brokenness : Korean War Legacies and Structures of Feeling
  • Global Loss : Metaphoric Substitution and the Logic of Human Rights
  • Conclusion: Ephemeral Publics and Roy Kiyooka's Stoned Gloves.