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The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday
Ju Yon Kim
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.
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Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Ambiguous Habits and the Paradox of Asian American Racial Formation
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1. Trying on The Yellow Jacket at the Limits of Our Town: The Routines of Race and Nation
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2. Everyday Rituals and the Performance of Community
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3. Making Change: Interracial Conflict, Cross-Racial Performance
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4. Homework Becomes You: The Model Minority and Its Doubles
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Afterword: The Everyday Asian American Online
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Notes
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Index
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About the Author
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Published: 2015
Publisher: New York University Press
- 9781479821747 (ebook)
- 9781479844326 (paperback)
- 9781479897896 (hardcover)