Research Catalog

Title

A race so different : performance and law in Asian America / Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson.

Author

Chambers-Letson, Joshua Takano

Publication

• New York : New York University Press, [2013]
• ©2013

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Details

Description

xiii, 266 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Postmillennial pop

Uniform Title

Postmillennial pop.

Subject

• Asian Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History
• Asian Americans and mass media > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-257) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 14-1164

ISBN

• 9780814738399 (cl : alk. paper)
• 0814738397 (cl : alk. paper)
• 9780814769966 (pb : alk. paper)
• 0814769969 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013017066

OCLC

841228439

Author

Chambers-Letson, Joshua Takano, author.

Title

A race so different : performance and law in Asian America / Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson.

Publisher

New York : New York University Press, [2013]

Copyright Date

©2013

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Postmillennial pop

Postmillennial pop.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-257) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-1164