{"product_id":"asians-loving-asians-9781433183065","title":"Asians Loving Asians","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAsians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics\u003c\/em\u003e examines media representations and everyday interpersonal intercultural negotiations of vernacular discourses around sticky ricean Asian man building sexual and romantic relationships with other Asian men. Specifically, Eguchi interrogates the following elements of sticky rice: the way sticky rice recycles, rethinks, and shifts the settler colonialist logics of whiteness that sustain ongoing histories of anti-Asian racism; the way sticky rice resists and reifies the mundane operation and execution of whiteness that organizes gay sexual cultures; the way sticky rice reproduces, reconstitutes, and challenges intra-regional political rivalries, economic hierarchies, and historical tensions in and across Asia and Asian diasporas; and the way sticky rice suggests alternative mappings of queer sex, desire, intimacy, and relationality. By taking further steps to unpack the complexities and contradictions of sticky \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eAsians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics\u003c\/i\u003e takes the vernacular discourse of ‘sticky rice,’ which refers to same sex desire between Asian men, from aphorism to theoretical frame and political activist affect. It is part confessional and part critically embodied theory building that deconstructs internalized racism perpetuated in the hegemony of colonialism of same sex desire.  In \u003ci\u003eAsians Loving Asians\u003c\/i\u003e, Shinsuke Eguchi deftly engages queer color critique with an unwavering voracity that does not drift in abstract theoreticality, but is made manifest in the embodied practices of queer Asian men and their performative resistance against exoticism and the return to self-love. In the process there are close readings of media representations of queer Asian desire; ethnographic interviews with queer Asian male subjects; and the criticality of self-affirmations to create a counter hegemonic queer Asian-futurism that calls us all to attend.  Eguchi establishes a fierce postcolonial queer of color critique that expands the focus of inquiry, discovery and positionality with the queer Asian subject. The work emerges from the body of the author, and thus both centers and it decenters staid presentations and proclamations of queer theory. \u003ci\u003eAsians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics\u003c\/i\u003e reads as critical autoethnographic discovery and offers a new template of sociality from a transnational Asian queer perspective. \u003ci\u003eAsians Loving Asians\u003c\/i\u003e is a must read for anyone seeking to explore the most bracing aspects of queer of color critique, by exploring a more expansive focus on racialized queer diversity. The book as a whole is liberating for the author and will be so for all who engage it. And like Marlon Riggs, who wrote about the audacity of Black men loving Black men, maybe Shinsuke Eguishi could also argue that ‘Asian men loving Asian men is a revolutionary act.’” —Bryant Keith Alexander, Dean, College of Communication and Fine Arts, and Interim Dean, School of Television and Film, Loyola Marymount University, Co-Author of \u003ci\u003eCollaborative Spirit-Writing Performance in Everyday Black Lives\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStill Hanging: Using Performance Texts to Deconstruct Racism\u003c\/i\u003e, and Co-Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Routledge Handbook of Gender and Communication\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s 2022, and we’re all in favor of post-colonial, non-Western, intersectional investigations of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. But, alas, easier said than done. Luckily, Shinsuke Eguchi is showing us how this can be done, in the best possible way, by doing it. \u003ci\u003eAsians Loving Asians\u003c\/i\u003e is a pathbreaking work that will enlighten us all, and that will inspire new directions in queer scholarship.” —Larry Gross, Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California and Founder and Editor of the \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Communication\u003c\/i\u003e and the Annenberg Press Book Series\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eAsians Loving Asians\u003c\/i\u003e, Shinsuke Eguchi offers a much needed intervention into the exploration of gay sexual cultures and the meaning attributed to whiteness and white desires within gay communities both nationally and globally and the impact such desires have on multiple different arenas. Through adapt use of various methods and theoretical perspectives, this work demonstrates the ways that ‘sticky rice,’ the coupling of two Asian men in sexual relationships, can both be powerful and problematic. This book is a major accomplishment that will shape how we perceive inter and intra racial desire and the wide reaching impact of such desires beyond personal intimacies.” —Chong-suk Winter Han, Professor of Sociology, Middlebury College and Author of \u003ci\u003eGeisha of a Different Kind: Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRacial Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Written in Eguchi’s distinctive and compelling voice, \u003ci\u003eAsians Loving Asians\u003c\/i\u003e will make you rethink your assumptions about race, gender, sexuality, and nation. Bringing together the fields of communication, Asian American studies, and Queer studies, the book displays an astonishing intellectual breadth. At the same time, it provides a template for pushing the boundaries of qualitative methods and demonstrates the transformative possibilities of critical, cultural, and auto-ethnographic methods.” —LeiLani Nishime, Professor of Communication, University of Washington and Author of \u003ci\u003eUndercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and Co-Editor of \u003ci\u003eRacial Ecologies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments – Introduction: Asians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics – Queerness of Sticky Rice: In and Across \u003ci\u003eYellow Fever\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFront Cover\u003c\/i\u003e – Queering Gender Borders of Sticky Rice: On \u003ci\u003eKoreatown\u003c\/i\u003e – Living in Paradox: Seeing \"Alternative Cartographies\" through Sticky Rice – Pedagogy of Unfreedom: Building Queer Relationalities through Sticky Rice – Monstrous Onē Performance: Sticking with \u003ci\u003eHikawa Kiyoshi\u003c\/i\u003e [氷川きよし] – Coda: Turning Points: Queer Desire in Progress – Appendix I – About the Author – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039678562647,"sku":"9781433183065","price":71.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433183065.jpg?v=1750944457","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/asians-loving-asians-9781433183065","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}