Join us for a presentation and celebration of Dr. Corinne Sugino’s new book, Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans. Refreshments will be served.
About the Book: From the debate over affirmative action to the increasingly visible racism amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans have emerged as highly-visible figures in a number of contemporary social controversies. Making the Human grapples with this heightened visibility, examining contemporary rhetorical sources across media, law, and popular culture. 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” to naturalize a limited understanding of what it means to be human. For more information, please visit www.corinnesugino.com.
Corinne Sugino is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Center for Ethnic Studies. Their research focus lies at the intersections of Asian American studies, cultural studies, rhetorical theory, and media studies. Corinne's first book project, Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans (Rutgers University Press, November 2024) explores how contemporary racial and gendered violence against Asian Americans naturalizes a limited understanding of what it means to be human. Beyond this project, her research interests also include discourses of false inclusion, comparative racialization, the Asian American movement, and transpacific race relations in Japan. Find more information on the book here.
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This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Center for Ethnic Studies, the Asian American Studies Program, the Department of English and the Humanities Institute.
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