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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"racial melancholia"”.
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Asian-American Literature and the Family Saga: Cyclical Histories of Racial Melancholia and Racial Dissociation
… best share histories across different ethnic and racial groups. There is a brief overview of the development of Asian-American literature and an explanation of how hyphenated identity is intrinsic to diasporic literatures, and then further discussion of how each of these novels contributes to the …
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"""The Everyday Affective Life of Racism"": Forms of Racial Melancholia in Early Asian American Literature"
… Everyday Affective Life of Racism’: Forms of Racial Melancholia in Early Asian American Literature,” I summon the concept of racial melancholia put forth by Anne Anlin Cheng, David Eng, and Shinhee Han as a springboard, expanding their definitions by closely reading the forms of racial …
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Belonging in the Psychic Nowhere: Racial Trauma, Racial Melancholia and Related Mental Health Outcomes Amongst South Asian Immigrants in the US
… in the US while straddling the Black-White racial binary. Despite their growing presence, research on South Asian mental health is relatively limited and often subsumed under the broader category of "Asian Americans," which obscures unique experiences due to the model minority myth and leads …
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Jemimas, Jockeys, and Jolly Banks: The Racial Discourse of Black Collectibles
… of black citizenship was seen as a threat to a racial caste structure that ensured white supremacy. Following the impetus for supremacy that defined the Jim Crow era, the collectibles sought to crystallize conceptions of inherent black inferiority. The presumption that these originary conditions …