Queering Contemporary Asian American Art (Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists)

Queering Contemporary Asian American Art takes Asian American differences as its point of departure, and brings together artists and scholars to challenge normative assumptions, essentialisms, and methodologies within Asian American art and visual culture. Taken together, these nine original artist interviews, cutting-edge visual artworks, and seven critical essays explore contemporary currents and experiences within Asian American art, including the multiple axes of race and identity; queer bodies and forms; kinship and affect; and digital identities and performances.

Using the verb and critical lens of "queering" to capture transgressive cultural, social, and political engagement and practice, the contributors to this volume explore the connection points in Asian American experience and cultural production of surveillance states, decolonization and diaspora, transnational adoption, and transgender bodies and forms, as well as heteronormative respectability, the military, and war. The interdisciplinary and theoretically informed frameworks in the volume engage readers to understand global and historical processes through contemporary Asian American artistic production.

• Queer: A Graphic History
• Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People
• Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)
• Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives
• The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir
• The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
• Prayers for My 17th Chromosome
• Chinese Surplus: Biopolitical Aesthetics and the Medically Commodified Body (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
• The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene
• Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging