Racial Capitalism and the Representation of Asians as “Robotic”
Speaker
Prof. Long T. Bui (UCI Global and International Studies)
Thursday · April 21 · 4 PM (Pacific Time)
Zoom Webinar
Registration Link:
https://uci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1s5tUSZmSC-1K6pvp0abMQ
This book talk considers how Asian people were represented in history as robotic machines. This stereotype has implications for Asian racialization, but also speaks to the ambiguous status of Asians as subjects of racial capitalism. This talk answers this key question: How does the making of the US empire predicated on the notion that people of the East are not human, and therefore are both easily exploited and/or exterminated? In doing so, it speaks to issues of citizenship, identity, class, and rights.
Long T. Bui is an Associate Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Returns of War: South Vietnam and Price of Refugee Memory (2018), and the forthcoming Model Machines: A History of the Asian as Automaton (June 2022).