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03835aam a2200541 i 4500 001 A30956D0CFA311E9B77D544F97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190905010153 008 181029s2019 nyu b s001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018035979 020 $a 1438475012 020 $a 9781438475011 035 $a (OCoLC)1080250588 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d GSU $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-my--- $a a-my--- 050 00 $a PN56.R16 $b A54 2019 082 00 $a 809/.933552 $2 23 100 1 $a Ang, Sze Wei, $d 1978- $e author. 245 14 $a The state of race : $b Asian/American fiction after World War II / $c Sze Wei Ang. 264 1 $a Albany : $b State University of New York Press, $c [2019] 300 $a viii, 191 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a SUNY series in multiethnic literature. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Tropes of exemplarity: morality as racial pedagogy -- Tropes of degeneration: morality and political efficacy -- Tropes of insecurity: state competition and racial anxiety -- Tropes of security: the global American dream -- Epilogue. 520 $a "Contemporary ideas about race are often assumed to be products of specific locales and histories, and yet we find versions of the same ideas about race across countries and cultures. How can we account for this paradox? In The State of Race, Sze Wei Ang argues that globalization has led to new ways of using racial stereotypes as shorthand for complex social relations in disparate national contexts. Literature then provides a key to understanding these tropes and the role that race has played in shoring up state power since World War II. In an era marked by global economic dependence the nation-state has only become more rather than less central to organizing social life. It does so, Ang argues, via notions and tropes of race that cast human and cultural differences in morally charged terms. Focusing on a series of Asian American and Malaysian texts, Ang tracks the significance of two figures in particular--the model minority and the communist spy. Appearing in novels, politics, and popular culture, these tropes anchor powerful narratives about race, global capital, and state sovereignty. In exploring how two countries that seem not to have much in common--the U.S. and Malaysia--nonetheless share very similar ways of conceptualizing race, Ang sheds light on an emerging global story of value, that is to say, a story of who does and does not have value, in both ethical and economic senses of the term, in the eyes of the state"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-182) and index. 650 0 $a Race in literature. 650 0 $a Racism in literature. 650 0 $a Asians in literature. 650 0 $a American fiction $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Malaysian fiction $x History and criticism. 651 0 $a United States $x Race relations. 651 0 $a Malaysia $x Race relations. 650 7 $a American fiction $x Asian American authors. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807056 650 7 $a Asians in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00818719 650 7 $a Malaysian fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01006573 650 7 $a Race in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086506 650 7 $a Race relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086509 650 7 $a Racism in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086655 651 7 $a Malaysia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204590 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a SUNY series in multiethnic literature 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191211021754.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190905042123.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A30956D0CFA311E9B77D544F97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search