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.
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