Queer and Femme Gazes in AfroAsian American Visual Culture is a scholarly collection that takes comparative Black-Asian representations in televisual culture from queer and femme perspectives. AfroAsian representations on screenas well as their attendant critical gazeshave historically emphasized cross-racial masculinities at the expense of queer and/or femme visions. The prevalence of these previous televisual artefactsand the ways they have been watchedhas contributed directly to white heteronormative legacies within film and visual studies. The collection intervenes by excavating the intimacies and political possibilities within AfroAsian femme, queer, and transgender life. The authors offer alternative ways of looking at racial representation in their attendance to developments in AfroAsian visual culture: music videos, video games, genre serials, and independent and short films.
1. Introduction: AfroAsian Social Insurgency in the Visual Field.-
2.
Queering Dueling Minstrelsies, or All the Things You Could Be Now If Charlie
Chan and Stepin Fetchit Had a Baby.-
3. Racialized Masculinities: The
Flawed AfroAsian Brothers in the Rush Hour Series.-
4. Reorienting Queer
AfroAsias in Hong Khaous Monsoon.-
5. FUCK THIS CHARACTER IM JUST GOING TO
GET STRONGER: SonicFoxs Hypermediation of Blackness and Queerness as
Radical Archival Embodiment.-
6. Black Girlhood and Anti-Asian Misandry in
Justin Chons Gook.-
7. Queering Archives of Indenture and the Present:
Refusing Cultural Kinship in Michelle Mohabeers Queer Coolietudes and Shanti
Mootoos Cereus Blooms at Night.-
8. Whitewashing the AfroAsian Vampire:
Filipino Erasure and Anti-Blackness in The Originals.-
9. Saweeties Pretty
Bitch Music, Femme Fugitivity, and the Blasian Bay Area.-
10. Trading Eyes:
Brown Looks in Beyoncés Brown Skin Girl.
Rebecca Kumar is Assistant Professor of English at Spelman College, USA. Her published work appears in Thirty Years After: New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film, and Art; Early Modern Diaspora Studies; liquid blackness; The Oxford Handbook on Shakespeare and Race; Scholar & Feminist Online; Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media; and Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture.
Seulghee Lee is Assistant Professor of African American Studies and English at the University of South Carolina, USA. He is the author of Other Lovings: An AfroAsian American Theory of Life (2024).
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