Full Description
How images portraying Asians as civil subjects contribute to debates on Asian American citizenship.
Contents
Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Clasped Hands and Clenched Fists; Spectacles of Intimacy and the Aesthetics of Domestication; Cultivating Citizenship: Internment Landscapes and Still Lifes; A Manner of Apology: Transpacifism and the Scars of Reparation; Racial Hygiene: SARS, Surgical Masks, and the Civility of Surveillance; Postscript: The Inhospitable Politics of Repatriation; Bibliography.