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Palumbo-Liu's Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial…
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Daughter of the Dragon
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White lady being afraid of asian man - pearl clutching, innocent, pure, white woman
Swedish-American actor playing an Asian man in itself creates a racial hierarchy — Asian men are not good enough to play Asian men
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Illusion - deception - violence - Asian femme fatale (using her sexuality as a tool to seduce and hurt men) (Shimizu's Hypersexuality of Race)
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Critically Queer, Judith Butler (from Bodies that Matter)
Reclamation of “queer” as no longer an insult and Its history as an “accusation, pathologization, insult”
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Democratization of queer politics - affirmations need to be criticized for also being exclusive to people with more privilege (i.e being “out” has different outcomes based on race/class/religion etc)
Thinking about how it is (to some degree) necessary to use labels like “queer” “woman” “gay” “lesbian” because it helps lay framework for policy that protects these groups — but also must acknowledge how they fall short and what implications they have
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There is a truth to femininity and masculinity that exists in the ego, but also there is no truth to either in appearance (contradiction) - it is a play between psyche and appearance
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Leslie Bow, Racist Cute
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Modernism and cartooning, minimalist, caricature exaggeration balances personhood and commodity fetishism
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Commodity fetishes function to elicit emotion, so kawaii invokes feelings of purity and innocence as well as a desire to protect — “aestheticization of powerlessness” reinforces Asia as an accessory
Risky Kawaii: “racialized things that not only testify to the fine line between affection and mockery but interrupt the seamless fluidity of global commodity flows to insist on the residues of the local”
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Segregation-era commodities give us the ick now, but not Asian imagery
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Women perceived as cute makes her independence easier to swallow. Equality becomes easier for men to stomach if women are infantalized
Silent Anatomies
Exfoliants and scrubbers to quite literally erase identities — reminds me of the plastic surgery for victims of atomic warefare
David Serlin, "Reconstructing the Hiroshima Maidens
Americans viewing themselves as equally traumatized (reminds me of reactionaries who say “All Lives Matter”)
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Asian women once again as complacent, passive, and vulnerable — “the project depended on collective gendered fantasies of the Maidens as docile Oriental caricatures to accomplish its altruistic goals” and also feminized Japan in American pop culture
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Popout words: reliable, good girl, quiet, researched, very appreciative, naive — model minority
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Equation of plastic surgery with consumerism - blurred line of emergency plastic surgery and aesthetic plastic surgery
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All about erasing identity. Literally and metaphorically "whitening" ones self to become more palatable and less marginalized
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The use of lungs, throats, speech, language as a specific part of the body
Fox Girl
Also reminds me of the concept of the femme fatale specifically used with POC — the connection between primitivism and sexuality. The further you stray from the in-group the more uncivilized you become and thus more sexual
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Racial trauma and suffering in silence — expectation of particularly Asian women to "grin and bear it"
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Love Doll, Laurie Simmons
Consent - what does it mean? She doesn’t want to look at the doll naked, but also she goes back and forth between referring to the doll as an object and then a human
Connection between capitalism and the orient - the doll is literally a commodified person to have sex with
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The sort of child-like quality she gives the doll infantalizes her — like racist cute and the infantalizing of Kawaii (aka Asian)-coded objects as a way of asserting dominance
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The Cheat
The sexualization, feminization, and exotification of Asian men
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M. Butterfly
ACT 2
She continues to be perceived as blindly devoted to this guy, creating a power dynamic that puts white men first (his complacency and acceptance despite its obvious exaggeration in this shows the inherent acceptnes as cithet whiteness to be normal and “natural”)
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His relationship with Song as a parallel to the relationship he perceives exists between China and the West
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Homophobia in communist China - Song forced to confront his homosexuality and critique of the government and decide between being an outcast or not
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Keeps deceiving himself and does not want to face the reality bc he wants to hold onto his happiness
ACT 1
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He repeatedly refers to her as a “perfect woman” or a “fantasy woman” who is far beyond his league — how this is racialized sexuality (what makes the perfect woman? devotion?)
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The play calls attention to asian stereotypes of the modest, submissive, asian woman and cruel, white man
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Tiger Flu
The role of men in an asexual society reminds me of how in M. Butterfly there was a tie between masculinity and fertility
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The gendering of illness is executed through how the disease affects men less — women are more viral and more diseased
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Saving Face
Valuing proximity to whiteness — the unconscious view of non-whiteness as primitive (therefore sexually deviant)
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Fitting into Shumizu's Hypersexuality of Race and how good representation is supposed to capture sexual contradiction: Saving Face does this and comes to terms with the Asian American experience instead of using a white experience with a non-white actor
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Carnal Orient, Mila Zuo
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"Am I pleasing you today? Will you need me tomorrow?" The view of Asian women as responsible for giving pleasure (M. Butterfly and the "perfect woman") and being disposable only there when others need her
Ornamentalism, Anne Anlin Cheng
The idea of Asian women as an aesthetic — an accessory (“Synthetic Asiatic woman as a ghost in the machine”) — reminds me of technoorientalism
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There is a parallel between objects and the perception of Asian women that blurs the line between living and nonliving