{"id":64066,"date":"2023-03-08T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=64066"},"modified":"2023-03-08T15:23:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:23:03","slug":"race-and-role-the-mixed-race-asian-experience-in-american-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64066","title":{"rendered":"Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"

Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Rutgers University Press<\/a>
\n2023-06-16
\n194 pages,
\n8 bw, 3 color
\n6.12 x 9.25
\nPaperback ISBN: 9781978835535
\nCloth ISBN: 9781978835542
\nEPUB ISBN: 9781978835559
\nKindle ISBN: 9781978835566
\nPDF ISBN: 9781978835573<\/p>\n

Rena M. Heinrich<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Theatre Practice
\nUniversity of Southern California<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mixed-race Asian American plays are often overlooked for their failure to fit smoothly into static racial categories, rendering mixed-race drama inconsequential in conversations about race and performance. Since the nineteenth century, however, these plays have long advocated for the social significance of multiracial Asian people.<\/p>\n

Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Experience in American Drama<\/em> traces the shifting identities of multiracial Asian figures in theater from the late-nineteenth century to the present day and explores the ways that mixed-race Asian identity transforms our understanding of race. Mixed-Asian playwrights harness theater\u2019s generative power to enact performances of \u201cdouble liminality\u201d and expose the absurd tenacity with which society clings to a tenuous racial scaffolding.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n