A Race So Different. Joshua Chambers-Letson

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       A Race So Different: Performance and Law in Asian America

      Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson

      A Race So Different

      Performance and Law in Asian America

      Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson

      New York University Press

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Chambers-Letson, Joshua Takano.

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

      pages cm. — (Postmillenial Pop Series)

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 978-0-8147-3839-9 (cl : alk. paper)

      ISBN 978-0-8147-6996-6 (pb : alk. paper)

      1. Asian Americans—Legal status, laws, etc.—History. 2. Asian Americans and mass media—History. I. Title.

      KF4757.5.A75C43 2013

      342.7308’73—dc23

      2013017066

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      A book in the American Literatures Initiative (ALI), a collaborative publishing project of NYU Press, Fordham University Press, Rutgers University Press, Temple University Press, and the University of Virginia Press. The Initiative is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information, please visit www.americanliteratures.org.

      This book is dedicated to my Obasan, Tatsuko (Takano) Chambers.

      She carried us across the ocean and continues to carry us today.

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction: Performance, Law, and the Race So Different

       1. “That May Be Japanese Law, but Not in My Country”: Madame Butterfly and the Problem of Law

       2. “Justice for My Son”: Staging Reparative Justice in Ping Chong’s Chinoiserie

      3. Pledge of Allegiance: Performing Patriotism in the Japanese American Concentration Camps

      4. The Nail That Stands Out: The Political Performativity of the Moriyuki Shimada Scrapbook

      5. Illegal Immigrant Acts: Dengue Fever and the Racialization of Cambodian America

      Conclusion: Virtually Legal

      Notes

      Bibliography

       About the Author

      Acknowledgments

      In the LCD Soundsystem song “All My Friends,” the song’s narrator travels through a landscape of late nights, shifting intimacies, professional growth, and personal loss. In spite of all the changes, he states that in the end he “can still come home to this.” This book was written in many houses and flats, in places that include Chicago, New York City, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, Seoul, Tokyo, Kobe, Cincinnati, Connecticut, and Denver. But the comrades, friends, and family who gave me shelter these past years have been the home I come back to, and for this words cannot but fail to express my gratitude.

      My colleagues in Northwestern University’s Department of Performance Studies have done nothing short of changing my life, and their impact is everywhere in these pages. E. Patrick Johnson and D. Soyini Madison are every СКАЧАТЬ