Joshua Chambers-Letson

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A Race So Different: Performance and Law in Asian AmericaPaperback, 2 December 2013

A Race So Different: Performance and Law in Asian America
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Postmillennial Pop
Part of Series
Postmillenial Pop
Print Length
279 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York University Press
Date Published
2 Dec 2013
ISBN-10
0814769969
ISBN-13
9780814769966

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Winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award presented by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education

Taking a performance studies approach to understanding Asian American racial subjectivity, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson 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) and in the rituals of everyday life. Tracing the production of Asian American selfhood from the era of Asian Exclusion through the Global War on Terror, A Race So Different explores the legal paradox whereby U.S. law apprehends the Asian American body as simultaneously excluded from and included within the national body politic.

Bringing together broadly defined forms of performance, from artistic works such as Madame Butterfly to the Supreme Court's oral arguments in the Cambodian American deportation cases of the twenty-first century, this book invites conversation about how Asian American performance uses the stage to document, interrogate, and complicate the processes of racialization in U.S. law. Through his impressive use of a rich legal and cultural archive, Chambers-Letson articulates a robust understanding of the construction of social and racial realities in the contemporary United States.

Product Details

Author:
Joshua Chambers-Letson
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
2 December 2013
Dimensions:
22.61 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm
Genre:
Asian - General
ISBN-10:
0814769969
ISBN-13:
9780814769966
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
279
Weight:
385.55 gm

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