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Model Machines: A History of the Asian as Automaton: Asian American History & Cultu

Autor Long T. Bui
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 iun 2022
In the contemporary Western imagination, Asian people are frequently described as automatons, which disavows their humanity. In Model Machines, Long Bui investigates what he calls Asian roboticism or the ways Asians embody the machine and are given robotic characteristics. 
Bui offers the first historical overview of the overlapping racialization of Asians and Asian Americans through their conflation with the robot-machine nexus. He puts forth the concept of the “model machine myth,” which holds specific queries about personhood, citizenship, labor, and rights in the transnational making of Asian/America. 
The case studies in Model Machines chart the representation of Chinese laborers, Japanese soldiers, Asian sex workers, and other examples to show how Asians are reimagined to be model machines as a product of globalization, racism, and colonialism. Moreover, it offers examples of how artists and everyday people resisted that stereotype to consider different ways of being human. Starting from the early nineteenth century, the book ends in the present with the new millennium, where the resurgence of China presages the “rise of the machines” and all the doomsday scenarios this might spell for global humanity at large.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781439922347
ISBN-10: 1439922349
Pagini: 305
Ilustrații: 1 figs., 6 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Temple University Press
Colecția Temple University Press
Seria Asian American History & Cultu


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“In this powerful and indispensable historiography, Long Bui puts to rest any lingering doubt about the pernicious pervasiveness of the model machine myth that has long cast Asians as technologized nonhumans in American cultural and economic histories. Through a meticulously researched catalog of the ways Asians have been instrumentalized via recalcitrant techno-Orientalist vocabularies, Bui provides rigorous analyses of the implications and damages of the myth as well as bold provocations for interventions and change.”Betsy Huang, Associate Professor of English and Dean of the College at Clark University, and coeditor of Techno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media

Model Machines tracks how fantasies of race and machines inform one another, but also inform the coding of the Asian American race through global history. Looking at the long history of Asian American racial formation, beginning with early nineteenth-century Chinese ‘coolies’ figured as labor machines, through Southeast Asian women imagined as ‘sex machines’ during the Cold War, into the present era of increasing machine-human interactions, Bui creates a welcomed bridge between theories of human-machine relations and critical ethnic studies of the racialization of technology.”Kalindi Vora, Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University, and coauthor of Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures

"[A] historical analysis of the stereotype of Asian persons as 'automatons'.... The main purpose of this historiography is to contribute to understanding the racialization of Asians in the U.S. over the past two centuries. This compelling work will likely be of greatest interest to scholars and students of Asian American studies, American ethnic history, ethnic studies, sociology, and other social sciences with a focus on critical race studies.... Summing Up: Recommended."Choice
"Model Machines is a richly researched and creative study of the model machine myth’s expansive histories and mutations. The book charts a wide range of examples while persuasively demonstrating how the model machine myth threads through them all. This book is an important resource for identifying and challenging persistent characterizations of Asians as nonhuman machines, as well as situating these characterizations within broader histories of Asian exclusion, exploitation, and abuse."MELUS
"Bui [provides] extraordinary insights and deep scholarship in his study of the dehumanisation of Asians and Asian Americans. By focusing on the model machine stereotype, Bui creates an intersectional approach to lucidly uncovering the complex ways in which Asians and Asian Americans have been racialised and marginalised, looking at the intersections between race, gender, class, technology, humanity, capital, and power.... [T]he book is a valuable contribution to the fields of Asian and Asian American studies, the sociology of race and gender, the history of technology, media studies, and global political economy."European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology

Notă biografică

Long T. Bui is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine and the author of Returns of War: South Vietnam and the Price of Refugee Memory.