05506nam 22009255 450 991079704850332120231214175508.09781479837519(electronic bk.)1-4798-3751-210.18574/9781479837519(CKB)3710000000376726(EBL)1991881(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326455(DE-B1597)547603(DE-B1597)9781479837519(MiAaPQ)EBC1991881(OCoLC)923734884(EXLCZ)99371000000037672620200723h20152015 fg 0engurnn#---|un|urdacontentrdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Racial Mundane Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday /Ju Yon KimNew York, New York :New York University Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (481 pages)Description based upon print version of record.Print version: Kim, Ju Yon. Racial mundane. New York : New York University Press, 2015 (DLC) 2014043547 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --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.Winner, Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize presented by the New England American Studies Association 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 "idian 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.Asian American Performance and the Embodied EverydayHuman behaviorSocial aspectsUnited StatesHuman bodySocial aspectsUnited StatesHabitSocial aspectsUnited StatesSocial interactionUnited StatesPerformanceSocial aspectsUnited StatesAsian AmericansCultural assimilationUnited StatesAsian AmericansHistoryAsian AmericansSocial conditionsAsian AmericansSocieties, etcEthnic neighborhoodsUnited StatesHistorySOCIAL SCIENCEDiscrimination & Race RelationsbisacshSOCIAL SCIENCEMinority StudiesbisacshAsian AmericansSocial conditionsfast(OCoLC)fst00818666Asian AmericansSocial life and customsfast(OCoLC)fst00818667Human behaviorSocial aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst00962826Human bodySocial aspectsfast(OCoLC)fst01730101PerformanceSocial aspects ǂ2 fast(OCoLC)fst01057842Social interactionfast(OCoLC)fst01122562United StatesRace relationsHuman behaviorSocial aspectsHuman bodySocial aspectsHabitSocial aspectsSocial interactionPerformanceSocial aspectsAsian AmericansCultural assimilationAsian AmericansHistory.Asian AmericansSocial conditions.Asian AmericansSocieties, etc.Ethnic neighborhoodsHistory.SOCIAL SCIENCEDiscrimination & Race Relations.SOCIAL SCIENCEMinority Studies.Asian AmericansSocial conditionsAsian AmericansSocial life and customsHuman behaviorSocial aspectsHuman bodySocial aspectsPerformanceSocial aspects ǂ2 fastSocial interaction305.895073Kim Ju Yonauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1508161DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910797048503321The Racial Mundane3739436UNINA