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In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, revealing ambiguity to be paramount to a more nuanced understanding both of race and of what it means to be Asian American. Exploring a variety of subjects and cultural arti...
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Rutgers University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Brunswick, New Jersey : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Asian American studies today
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In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, revealing ambiguity to be paramount to a more nuanced understanding both of race and of what it means to be Asian American. Exploring a variety of subjects and cultural artifacts, Ho reveals how Asian American subjects evince a deep racial ambiguity that unmoors the concept of race from any fixed or finite understanding. She argues that race is an abstraction that we treat as concrete, a construct that reflects only our desires, fears, and anxieties, and seeing race as ambiguous puts us one step closer to a potential antidote to racism.--From publisher description. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 215 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-205) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780813570693 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 0813570697 (paperback : alkaline paper) : 0813570697(paperback : alkaline paper) 9780813570709 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 0813570700 (hardcover : alkaline paper) 9780813570716 (e-book (web pdf)) 0813570719 (e-book (web pdf)) |
| Index Number: | PS153 |
| CLC: | I712.065 |
| Call Number: | I712.065/H678 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Ambiguous Americans -- From enemy alien to assimilating American : Yoshiko deLeon and the mixed-marriage policy of the Japanese American incarceration -- Anti-sentimental loss : stories of transracial/transnational Asian American adult adoptees in the blogosphere -- Cablinasian dreams, Amerasian realities : transcending race in the twenty-first century and other myths broken by Tiger Woods -- Ambiguous movements and mobile subjectivity : passing in-between autobiography and fiction with Paisley Rekdal and Ruth Ozeki -- Transgressive texts and ambiguous authors : racial ambiguity in Asian American literature -- Coda: Ending with origins : my own racial ambiguity. |