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Articles by Xine Yao
Not Feeling It
In Disaffected, scholar Xine Yao looks at the racial history of unfeeling. Trained as a nineteenth century Americanist, Yao, much like Lauren Berlant, shows how sentimentality was used for nation-building. Sentiment promised to unite disparate people into a single, stable country if they all “felt right.” Of course, who is allowed to feel “right,” and who is punished for not doing so, is socially determined.
Arctic and Asian Indigeneities, Asian/North American Settler/Colonialism: Animating Intimacies and Counter-Intimacies in Avatar: The Last Airbender
Arctic and Asian Indigeneities, Asian/North American Settler/ColonialismAnimating Intimacies and Counter-Intimacies in Avatar: The Last Airbender ABSTRACT By bracketing whiteness, Avatar: The Last Airbender reorients us to how global colonial modernity produces biopolitical difference as a technology of management to defamiliarize Asian and Indigenous relationalities.
Arctic and Asian Indigeneities, Asian/North American Settler/Colonialism: Animating Intimacies and Counter-Intimacies in Avatar: The Last Airbender
By bracketing whiteness, Avatar: The Last Airbender reorients us to how global colonial modernity produces biopolitical difference as a technology of management to defamiliarize Asian and Indigenous relationalities. Approaching it as a site of alternative contact, I consider Lisa Lowe's intimacies of colonial comparative processes in apposition with insurgent counter-intimacies.
Antiracism in the Contemporary University
JULY 6, 2021 The following essays are part of the Los Angles Review of Books special series, “Antiracism in the Contemporary University,” edited by Tita Chico. Click here for Tita Chico’s introduction. ¤ GerShun Avilez, Weapons and Shields David Sterling Brown, “Don’t Hurt Yourself”: (Anti)Racism and White Self-Harm Kristina Huang, Beyond White Fragility Brittany S.
Duke University Press - Disaffected
The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America Book Pages: 304 Illustrations: Published: November 2021 Subjects American Studies, Cultural Studies > Affect Theory, Critical Ethnic Studies In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling—affects that are not recognized as feeling—as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of universal feeling.
Disaffected- Combined Academic
The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Published by: Duke University Press Books Description Contents Praise In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling—affects that are not recognized as feeling—as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of universal feeling.
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