Race and Role(English, Paperback, Heinrich Rena M.)

Know about the book -

Race and Role(English, Paperback, Heinrich Rena M.) is written by Heinrich Rena M. and published by Rutgers University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1978835531 (ISBN 10) and 9781978835535 (ISBN 13).

Mixed-race Asian American plays are often overlooked for their failure to fit smoothly into static racial categories, rendering mixed-race drama inconsequential in conversations about race and performance. Since the nineteenth century, however, these plays have long advocated for the social significance of multiracial Asian people. Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Experience in American Drama traces the shifting identities of multiracial Asian figures in theater from the late-nineteenth century to the present day and explores the ways that mixed-race Asian identity transforms our understanding of race. Mixed-Asian playwrights harness theater's generative power to enact performances of "double liminality" and expose the absurd tenacity with which society clings to a tenuous racial scaffolding.