Inscrutable eating : Asian appetites and the rhetorics of racial consumption

Inscrutable eating : Asian appetites and the rhetorics of racial consumption / Jennifer Lin LeMesurier.

"Drawing on rhetorical theory, affect theory, and Asian American studies, LeMesurier analyzes US folk songs, cartoons, news, and social media about Asian eating to investigate how the rhetorical framing of food and eating underpins our understanding of race and gender in contemporary America&qu...

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Main Author: LeMesurier, Jennifer Lin, 1985- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2023]
Series:Intersectional rhetorics.
Subjects:
Asian Americans > Food > Social aspects.
Food > Social aspects > United States.
Food habits > Social aspects > United States.
Food habits > Cross-cultural studies.
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Asian Americans > Ethnic identity.
Rhetoric > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Gut orientations
  • Rat eaters : defining American masculinity in opposition to Asian deviance
  • Bat lovers : the threat of Asian appetites to US national embodiment
  • MSG users : phantasies of health as race neutral
  • "Too sensitive" speakers : the limits on Asian emotion in the public sphere
  • Conclusion: Unmooring habits of taste.

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