Provides an exceptionally generative paradigm for thinking about those forms of collective identification that do not achieve the solidity of fully-fledged political movements but that nonetheless register in illuminating ways the everyday life of race in Asian North America. A fascinating and timely study.
Daniel Kim, author of Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin and ... Read morethe Literary Politics of Identity Capacious in its method, wide-ranging in scope, and compellingly written, Minor Intimacies of Race offers
in its multifaceted contemplation of the geopolitics of feeling and meditation on multiple publics
a remarkably original and decidedly sophisticated diasporic critique.
Cathy Schlund-Vials, author of Modeling Citizenship, Jewish and Asian American Writing A valuable contribution to the study of Asian Canadian and Asian American literature. Importantly, Kim's compassion for and integrity to the subject is evident and admirable.
English Studies in Canada A worthwhile discussion of Asian Canadian and Asian American culture and its fraught relationship with the tenets of official multiculturalism. This beautifully captures the registers and modalities of feeling produced in more conventional novels as well as aesthetically experimental works by visual artists and writers.
Josephine Lee, co-editor of Asian American Plays for a New Generation Christine Kim'sThe Minor Intimacies of Race is a necessary and insightful look into the process of defining race and the experience of prejudice. . . . Kim should be applauded for her nuanced and informative approach to a very important topic.
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