{"product_id":"making-the-human-race-allegory-and-asian-americans-paperback-softback-9781978839694","title":"Making the Human; Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978839694","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMaking the Human\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace, Allegory, and Asian Americans\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCorinne Mitsuye Sugino (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978839694\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e212 pages, 2 color images\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm, 0.313 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"What are the consequences of understanding 'Asian American' as a term wrapped up in carceral warfare, antiblackness, coloniality, and extraction? Positioning the figure of the 'Asian American' within a Civilizational project that imagines, institutionalizes, and enforces Western 'Man,' \u003ci\u003eMaking the Human \u003c\/i\u003edemystifies the de facto liberalism embedded in dominant racial categories-and of 'anti-racism' itself.\" - Dylan Rodríguez (professor in the departments of Black Study and Media \u0026amp; Cultural Studies at the University of Califo) \"Corinne Mitsuye Sugino’s book is an expansive, ambitious examination of how Asian\/Americans are constructed through racial allegory. In this tour de force, Sugino artfully analyzes the rhetoric of 'Asian\/American' as fetish, disease vector, carceral subject, and victimized college applicant across popular discourse, film, and the law to construct 'Western Man'. It’s a must-read for scholars interested in the intersection of Asian American studies, rhetoric, and race.\" - David C. Oh (author of Whitewashing the Movies: Asian Erasure and White Subjectivity in U.S. Film Culture)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFrom 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 \u003ci\u003eMaking the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans, \u003c\/i\u003eCorinne 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, \u003ci\u003eMaking the Human \u003c\/i\u003egrapples with anti-Asian racism’s entanglements with colonialism, antiblackness, capitalism, and gendered violence.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Love and Intimacy: Race, Exoticism, and ‘\u003cbr\u003eAsian Fetish’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Family and Mothering: Multicultural Redemption and Gendered Racial Logics in \u003ci\u003eCrazy Rich Asians\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Discrimination and Justice: Asian Americans and Anti-Blackness in \u003ci\u003eStudents for Fair Admissions v. Harvard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Person\/Nationhood: Anti-Asian Racism Amidst COVID-19\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Carcerality: Entangling Categories of Asian American Racialization\u003cbr\u003e Coda\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52640490389784,"sku":"9781978839694","price":23.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/making-the-human-race-allegory-and-asian-americans-paperback-softback-9781978839694","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}