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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : performance, law, and the race so different -- "That may be Japanese law, but not in my country" : Madame Butterfly and the problem of law -- "Justice for my son" : staging reparative justice in Ping Chong's Chinoiserie -- Pledge of allegiance : performing patriotism in the Japanese American concentration camps -- The nail that stands out : the political performativity of the Moriyuki Shimada scrapbook -- Illegal immigrant acts : dengue fever and the racialization of Cambodian America -- Conclusion : virtually legal.

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Taking a performance studies approach to understanding Asian American racial subjectivity, the author 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, this book explores the legal paradox whereby U.S. law apprehends the Asian American body as simultaneously excluded from and included within the national body politic.

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