@article{1479814,
      recid = {1479814},
      author = {Chambers-Letson, Joshua, },
      title = {A Race So Different : Performance and Law in Asian America  /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {Winner of the 2014 Outstanding Book Award presented by the  Association for Theatre in Higher EducationTaking a  performance studies approach to understanding Asian  American racial subjectivity, Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson  argues that the law influences racial formation by  compelling Asian Americans to embody and perform  recognizable identities in both popular aesthetic forms  (such as theater, opera, or rock music) and in the rituals  of everyday life. Tracing the production of Asian American  selfhood from the era of Asian Exclusion through the Global  War on Terror, A Race So Different explores the legal  paradox whereby U.S. law apprehends the Asian American body  as simultaneously excluded from and included within the  national body politic.Bringing together broadly defined  forms of performance, from artistic works such as Madame  Butterfly to the Supreme Court's oral arguments in the  Cambodian American deportation cases of the twenty-first  century, this book invites conversation about how Asian  American performance uses the stage to document,  interrogate, and complicate the processes of racialization  in U.S. law. Through his impressive use of a rich legal and  cultural archive, Chambers-Letson articulates a robust  understanding of the construction of social and racial  realities in the contemporary United States.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479814},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.9783/9780814745250},
}