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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: racial mundane
    sub title: Asian American performance and the embodied everyday
  name:
    name part: Kim, Ju Yon
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 287 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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. The body's uncertain attachment to its routine motions promises alternately to materialize racial distinctions and to dissolve them. Kim's study focuses on works of theater, fiction and film that explore the interface between racialized bodies and everyday enactments to reveal new and latent affiliations. The various modes of performance developed in these works not only encourage audiences to see habitual behaviors differently, but also reveal the stakes of noticing such behaviors at all. Integrating studies of race, performance and the everyday, The Racial Mundane invites readers to reflect on how and to what effect perfunctory behaviors become objects of public scrutiny.
  table of contents: Introduction: Ambiguous habits and the paradox of Asian American racial formation -- Trying on the yellow jacket at the limits of our town : the routines of race and nation -- Everyday rituals and the performance of community -- Making change : interracial conflict, cross-racial performance -- Homework becomes you : the model minority and its doubles -- Afterword: The everyday Asian American online.
  note: Ju Yon Kim.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Asian Americans
    topic: Race identity
  subject:
    topic: Asian Americans
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Asian Americans
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Performance
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Social interaction
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Habit
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Human body
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Human behavior
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Race relations
  classification: E184.A75 K55 2015
  classification: 305.895/073
  identifier: 9781479897896 (hardcover alkaline paper)
  identifier: 1479897892 (hardcover alkaline paper)
  identifier: 9781479844326 (paper alkaline paper)
  identifier: 1479844322 (paper alkaline paper)
  identifier: 2014043547
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 150313
    record change date: 20151105195417.0
    record identifier: in00003539524