The biopolitics of mixing [electronic resource] : Thai multiracialities and haunted ascendancies / Jin Haritaworn.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haritaworn, Jin
Language:English
Published: Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012.
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Variant Title:
The Biopolitics of Mixing: Thai Multiracialities and Haunted Ascendancies
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction: haunted origins
  • What are you?
  • From monster to fashion model: regenerating multiracialized bodies
  • Is it better to be mixed race?
  • Hybrid nations, mixed feelings: from marginal man to Obama
  • Exceptional cities, exceptional citizens: metronormativity and mimeticism
  • Reckoning with prostitutes: performing Thai femininity
  • Conclusion: where do we want to go?