Asian American

This research entails gaining a deeper understanding of how Asian Americans relate to racial violence as direct and indirect victims of hate crime. In doing so, this study examines the role of hate crime and how Asian Americans manage to cope with subtle and overt expressions of…

This dissertation analyzes the film performances of Sabu to connect perceptions of Indian-ness across the multiple geographies of colonial India, Britain and the United States. Sabu was an Indian child star featuring in popular British and Hollywood films including Elephant Boy …

Postcolonial critics often assume that Christianity is an oppressive Western religion that imposes cultural and political "colonization" and is therefore intentionally "subverted" or "ironized" by contemporary Asian American writers. From the perspectives of Christian literary a…

This dissertation focuses on Asian American literature and popular culture, concentrating specifically on the rhetoric of authenticity in the multicultural era. Briefly, I argue that multicultural imperatives have produced the unforeseen effect of underscoring--and in many cases…

This project contextualizes and analyzes the writings of Winnifred Eaton, the first published Asian American novelist. Of biracial descent (Chinese-British), Eaton was born into an extremely hostile North American racial environment, as demonstrated by the passage of the 1882 Ex…