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Asian Americans --- History. --- Social conditions. --- #KVHA:Geschiedenis; Verenigde Staten --- #KVHA:American Studies --- History --- Social conditions --- Asian Americans - History. --- Asian Americans - Social conditions.
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Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural StudiesThe Exquisite Corpse ofAsian Americaaddresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or socialconstruction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists,authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts? Engagingnovels, poetry, theater, and new media from both the U.S. andinternationally—such as Kazuo Ishiguro’s science fiction novel Never Let MeGo or Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats and exhibits like that of BodyWorlds in which many of the bodies on display originated from Chinese prisons—RachelC. Lee teases out the preoccupation with human fragments and posthumanecologies in the context of Asian American cultural production and theory. Sheunpacks how the designation of “Asian American” itself is a mental constructthat is paradoxically linked to the biological body.Through chapters that each use a body part as springboard forreading Asian American texts, Lee inaugurates a new avenue of research onbiosociality and biopolitics within Asian American criticism, focused on theliterary and cultural understandings of pastoral governmentality, the divergentscales of embodiment, and the queer (cross)species being of racial subjects.She establishes an intellectual alliance and methodological synergy betweenAsian American studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS), biocultures,medical humanities, and femiqueer approaches to family formation, carework,affect, and ethics. In pursuing an Asian Americanist critique concerned withspeculative and real changes to human biologies, she both produces innovationwithin the field and demonstrates the urgency of that critique to otherdisciplines.
Asian Americans -- Social conditions. --- Body image -- United States. --- Human body -- United States. --- Prejudices -- United States. --- Asian Americans --- Prejudice --- Body image --- Human body --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Body, Human --- Human beings --- Human anatomy --- Human physiology --- Mind and body --- Image, Body --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Person schemas --- Personality --- Self-perception --- Bias (Psychology) --- Prejudgments --- Prejudices and antipathies --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Emotions --- Asians --- Ethnology --- Social conditions
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Two women, virtual strangers, sit hand-in-hand across a narrow table, both intent on the same thing-achieving the perfect manicure. Encounters like this occur thousands of times across the United States in nail salons increasingly owned and operated by Asian immigrants. This study looks closely for the first time at these intimate encounters, focusing on New York City, where such nail salons have become ubiquitous. Drawing from rich and compelling interviews, Miliann Kang takes us inside the nail industry, asking such questions as: Why have nail salons become so popular? Why do so many Asian women, and Korean women in particular, provide these services? Kang discovers multiple motivations for the manicure-from the pampering of white middle class women to the artistic self-expression of working class African American women to the mass consumption of body-related services. Contrary to notions of beauty service establishments as spaces for building community among women, The Managed Hand finds that while tentative and fragile solidarities can emerge across the manicure table, they generally give way to even more powerful divisions of race, class, and immigration.
Asian Americans - Social conditions. --- Asian Americans -- Social conditions. --- Beauty culture - Social aspects - United States. --- Beauty culture -- Social aspects -- United States. --- Beauty shops - Social aspects - United States. --- Beauty, Personal - Social aspects - United States. --- Korean American women - Employment - United States. --- Korean American women -- Employment -- United States. --- Manicuring - Social aspects - United States. --- United States - Race relations. --- United States -- Race relations. --- Women immigrants - Employment - United States. --- Women immigrants -- Employment -- United States. --- Beauty culture --- Korean American women --- Women immigrants --- Asian Americans --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Arts & Crafts --- Social aspects --- Employment --- Social conditions --- Immigrant women --- Immigrants --- Women, Korean American --- Women --- Cosmetology --- Beauty, Personal --- Beauty shops --- Cosmetics --- Nail art (Manicuring) --- Manicuring --- Body art --- Nail designs (Manicuring) --- Nails (Anatomy) --- Care and hygiene --- african american women. --- art. --- asian american. --- asian immigrants. --- asian women. --- beauty service work. --- body services. --- body. --- class differences. --- consumption. --- divisions of race. --- ethnography. --- gender issues. --- gender. --- immigrant workers. --- interviews. --- korean women. --- manicures. --- nail industry. --- nail salons. --- new york city. --- nonfiction. --- pampering. --- race issues. --- self care. --- self expression. --- service careers. --- social science. --- united states. --- white middle class women. --- women. --- working class.
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