Making the Human

Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans

Corinne Mitsuye Sugino (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

212 Seiten

2024
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3970-0 (ISBN)

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From the debate over affirmative action to the increasingly visible racism amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans have emerged as key figures in a number of contemporary social controversies. In Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans, Corinne Mitsuye Sugino offers the lens of racial allegory to consider how media, institutional, and cultural narratives mobilize difference to normalize a white, Western conception of the human. Rather than focusing on a singular arena of society, Sugino considers contemporary sources across media, law, and popular culture to understand how they interact as dynamic sites of meaning-making. Drawing on scholarship in Asian American studies, Black studies, cultural studies, communication, and gender and sexuality studies, Sugino argues that Asian American racialization and gendering plays a key role in shoring up abstract concepts such as “meritocracy,” “family,” “justice,” “diversity,” and “nation” in ways that naturalize hierarchy. In doing so, Making the Human grapples with anti-Asian racism’s entanglements with colonialism, antiblackness, capitalism, and gendered violence.

CORINNE MITSUYE SUGINO is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Center for Ethnic Studies at The Ohio State University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Asian American studies, rhetorical theory, cultural studies, and media studies.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Love and Intimacy: Race, Exoticism, and ‘Asian Fetish’
Chapter 2: Family and Mothering: Multicultural Redemption and Gendered Racial Logics in Crazy Rich Asians
Chapter 3: Discrimination and Justice: Asian Americans and Anti-Blackness in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard
Chapter 4: Person/Nationhood: Anti-Asian Racism Amidst COVID-19
Chapter 5: Carcerality: Entangling Categories of Asian American Racialization
Coda
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Asian American Studies Today
Zusatzinfo	2 color images
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-3970-7 / 1978839707
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-3970-0 / 9781978839700
Zustand	Neuware