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A conversation with James McMaster and Anna Storti
Drawing from Racial Care: On Asian American Suffering and Survival (Duke University Press)

Friday, January 30 · 12-1:30 PM ET
Care Lab, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4

Lunch Provided, RSPV: revaluingcarelab@duke.edu

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Co-sponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies (GSF), History Hub, and Asian American & Diaspora Studies (AADS)

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Full Description of the Book

In Racial Care, James McMaster studies the forms of care that Asian Americans have taken up to survive the suffering they experience under neoliberal capitalism and white supremacy in the United States. He shows that racialized labors of care can cut multiple ways: sustaining life for their recipients while draining life from their performers.

Uplifting examples from Asian American theater, performance art, visual culture, film, poetry, protest, and everyday life, McMaster advances a racialized ethics and politics of care forged from feminist, queer, and disability theory. He argues that racial care in the Asian American case must respond both to the specific forms of neglect Asian Americans face as a consequence of model minority racialization and to the urgent needs for care that exist among other racialized and colonized peoples.

Following the lead of artists and writers such as Kristina Wong, Mark Aguhar, Kimberly Alidio, Julia Cho, kt shorb, and Jess X. Snow, Racial Care provides a path forward for those seeking to sustain multiply marginalized Asian American life in times of overlapping crisis.