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03335aam a2200445 i 4500 001 B12EF1D86B5711E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 150313s2015 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014043547 020 $a 1479844322 020 $a 9781479844326 020 $a 1479897892 020 $a 9781479897896 035 $a (OCoLC)893452351 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E184.A75 K55 2015 082 00 $a 305.895/073 $2 23 100 1 $a Kim, Ju Yon, $e author. 245 14 $a The racial mundane : $b Asian American performance and the embodied everyday / $c Ju Yon Kim. 264 1 $a New York ; $b New York University Press, $c [2015] 300 $a x, 287 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 2 $a "Across the twentieth century, national controversies involving Asian Americans have drawn attention to such seemingly unremarkable activities as eating rice, greeting customers, and studying for exams. While public debates about Asian Americans have invoked quotidian practices to support inconsistent claims about racial difference, diverse aesthetic projects have tested these claims by experimenting with the relationships among habit, body, and identity. In The Racial Mundane, Ju Yon Kim argues that the ambiguous relationship between behavioral tendencies and the body has sustained paradoxical characterizations of Asian Americans as ideal and impossible Americans. The body's uncertain attachment to its routine motions promises alternately to materialize racial distinctions and to dissolve them. Kim's study focuses on works of theater, fiction, and film that explore the interface between racialized bodies and everyday enactments to reveal new and latent affiliations. The various modes of performance developed in these works not only encourage audiences to see habitual behaviors differently, but also reveal the stakes of noticing such behaviors at all. Integrating studies of race, performance, and the everyday, The Racial Mundane invites readers to reflect on how and to what effect perfunctory behaviors become objects of public scrutiny"--From publisher's website. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Ambiguous habits and the paradox of Asian American racial formation -- Trying on the yellow jacket at the limits of our town : the routines of race and nation -- Everyday rituals and the performance of community -- Making change : interracial conflict, cross-racial performance -- Homework becomes you : the model minority and its doubles -- Afterword: The everyday Asian American online. 650 0 $a Asian Americans $x Race identity. 650 0 $a Asian Americans $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Asian Americans $x Social life and customs. 650 0 $a Performance $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Social interaction $z United States. 650 0 $a Habit $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Human body $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Human behavior $x Social aspects $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Race relations. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826112237.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B12EF1D86B5711E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search