A Race So Different : Performance and Law in Asian America /

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Taking a performance studies approach to understanding Asian American racial subjectivity, the author 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) an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chambers-Letson, Joshua Takano
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Asian Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Asian Americans and mass media.
LAW > Public.
LAW > Constitutional.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Customs & Traditions.
Americains d'origine asiatique et medias > Histoire.
Asian Americans and mass media > History.
Asian Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : performance, law, and the race so different
  • "That may be Japanese law, but not in my country" : Madame Butterfly and the problem of law
  • "Justice for my son" : staging reparative justice in Ping Chong's Chinoiserie
  • Pledge of allegiance : performing patriotism in the Japanese American concentration camps
  • The nail that stands out : the political performativity of the Moriyuki Shimada scrapbook
  • Illegal immigrant acts : dengue fever and the racialization of Cambodian America
  • Conclusion : virtually legal.

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