Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow

2005 Literary Criticism

Author : Daniel Y. Kim
Release : 2005
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow written by Daniel Y. Kim. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comparative study of African American and Asian American representations of masculinity and race, focusing primarily on the major works of two influential figures, Ralph Ellison and Frank Chin.

Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow

2022 LITERARY CRITICISM

Author : Daniel Kim
Release : 2022
Genre : LITERARY CRITICISM
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Download or read book Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow written by Daniel Kim. This book was released on 2022. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines cultural representations of African American and Asian American masculinity, focusing primarily on the major works of two influential figures, Ralph Ellison and Frank Chin. It highlights the language of gender and sexuality that writers use to depict the psychological injuries inflicted by racism on men of color--a language that relies on metaphors of emasculation. The book focuses on how homosexuality comes to function as a powerful symbol for a feminizing racism, and explains why this disturbing symbolism proves to be so rhetorically and emotionally effective. This study also explores the influential concept of literature that these writers promote--a view of writing as a cultural and political activity capable of producing the most virile and racially authentic forms of manhood. In comparing African American and Asian American writings, this book offers the first scholarly account of how black and yellow conceptions of masculinity are constructed in relation to each other.

Race for Citizenship

2011-02-23 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Helen Heran Jun
Release : 2011-02-23
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 971/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Race for Citizenship written by Helen Heran Jun. This book was released on 2011-02-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Original and compelling. Bringing her considerable knowledge of historical and contemporary political theory to bear on her readings of African and Asian American literature and film, Jun analyzes how discourses of race, gender, and national belonging, American orientalism, and American feminism have shaped African and Asian American lives in relation to each other. Simultaneously sophisticated and accessible, Race for Citizenship fills a critical lacuna in race relations studies." ---ELAINE KIM, University of California, Berkeley --

East Meets Black

2015-03-31 Social Science

Author : Chong Chon-Smith
Release : 2015-03-31
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 250/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book East Meets Black written by Chong Chon-Smith. This book was released on 2015-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Meets Black examines the making and remaking of race and masculinity through the racialization of Asian and Black men, confronting this important white stratagem to secure class and racial privilege, wealth, and status in the post-civil rights era. Indeed, Asian and Black men in neoliberal America are cast by white supremacy as oppositional. Through this opposition in the US racial hierarchy, Chong Chon-Smith argues that Asian and Black men are positioned along binaries brain/body, diligent/lazy, nerd/criminal, culture/genetics, student/convict, and technocrat/athlete—in what he terms “racial magnetism.” Via this concept, East Meets Black traces the national conversations that oppose Black and Asian masculinities, but also the Afro-Asian counterpoints in literature, film, popular sport, hip-hop music, performance arts, and internet subcultures. Chon-Smith highlights the spectacle and performance of baseball players such as Ichiro Suzuki within global multiculturalism and the racially coded controversy between Yao Ming and Shaquille O'Neal in transnational basketball. Further, he assesses the prominence of martial arts buddy films such as Romeo Must Die and Rush Hour that produce Afro-Asian solidarity in mainstream Hollywood cinema. Finally, Chon-Smith explores how the Afro-Asian cultural fusions in hip-hop open up possibilities for the creation of alternative subcultures, to disrupt myths of Black pathology and the Asian model minority. In this first interdisciplinary book on Asian and Black masculinities in literature and popular culture, Chon-Smith explores the inspiring, contradictory, hostile, resonant, and unarticulated ways in which the formation of Asian and Black racial masculinity has affected contemporary America.

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