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Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans

Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans

Sugino, Corinne Mitsuye

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Series: Asian American Studies Today

Asian American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1978839693
ISBN13: 9781978839694
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: Nov 15 2024
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

Winner of the 2026 Cultural Studies Association First Book Prize

From the debate over affirmative action to the increasingly visible racism amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans have emerged as key figures in a number of contemporary social controversies. In Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans, Corinne Mitsuye Sugino offers the lens of racial allegory to consider how media, institutional, and cultural narratives mobilize difference to normalize a white, Western conception of the human. Rather than focusing on a singular arena of society, Sugino considers contemporary sources across media, law, and popular culture to understand how they interact as dynamic sites of meaning-making. Drawing on scholarship in Asian American studies, Black studies, cultural studies, communication, and gender and sexuality studies, Sugino argues that Asian American racialization and gendering plays a key role in shoring up abstract concepts such as meritocracy, family, justice, diversity, and nation in ways that naturalize hierarchy. In doing so, Making the Human grapples with anti-Asian racism's entanglements with colonialism, antiblackness, capitalism, and gendered violence.

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