TY - BOOK ID - 78142986 TI - A Race So Different PY - 2013 SN - 0814745253 9780814745250 9780814769966 9780814738399 0814738397 0814769969 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Asian Americans and mass media KW - Asian Americans KW - Mass media and Asian Americans KW - Mass media KW - Asians KW - Ethnology KW - History. KW - Legal status, laws, etc. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78142986 AB - Taking 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 fr ER -