{"product_id":"model-machines-9781439922347","title":"Model Machines","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the contemporary Western imagination, Asian people are frequently described as automatons, which disavows their humanity. In\u003ci\u003eModel Machines,\u003c\/i\u003eLong Bui investigates what he calls Asian roboticism or the ways Asians embody the machine and are given robotic characteristics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBuioffers the first historical overview of the overlapping racialization of Asians and Asian Americans through their conflation with the robot-machine nexus. He puts forth the concept of the “model machine myth,” which holds specific queries about personhood, citizenship, labor, and rights in the transnational making of Asian\/America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe case studies in\u003ci\u003eModel Machines\u003c\/i\u003echart the representation of Chinese laborers, Japanese soldiers, Asian sex workers, and other examples to show how Asians are reimagined to be model machines as a product of globalization, racism, and colonialism. Moreover, it offers examples of how artists and everyday people resisted that stereotype to consider di\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“In this powerful and indispensable historiography, Long Bui puts to rest any lingering doubt about the pernicious pervasiveness of the model machine myth that has long cast Asians as technologized nonhumans in American cultural and economic histories. Through a meticulously researched catalog of the ways Asians have been instrumentalized via recalcitrant techno-Orientalist vocabularies, Bui provides rigorous analyses of the implications and damages of the myth as well as bold provocations for interventions and change.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eBetsy Huang\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eAssociate Professor of English and Dean of the College at Clark University, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eTechno-Orientalism: Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eModel Machines\u003ci\u003e tracks how fantasies of race and machines inform one another, but also inform the coding of the Asian American race through global history. Looking at the long history of Asian American racial formation, beginning with early nineteenth-century Chinese ‘coolies’ figured as labor machines, through Southeast Asian women imagined as ‘sex machines’ during the Cold War, into the present era of increasing machine-human interactions, Bui creates a welcomed bridge between theories of human-machine relations and critical ethnic studies of the racialization of technology.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eKalindi Vora\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eProfessor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration at Yale University, and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eSurrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"[A] historical analysis of the stereotype of Asian persons as 'automatons'.... The main purpose of this historiography is to contribute to understanding the racialization of Asians in the U.S. over the past two centuries. This compelling work will likely be of greatest interest to scholars and students of Asian American studies, American ethnic history, ethnic studies, sociology, and other social sciences with a focus on critical race studies.... Summing Up: Recommended.\"\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eModel Machines\u003ci\u003e is a richly researched and creative study of the model machine myth’s expansive histories and mutations. The book charts a wide range of examples while persuasively demonstrating how the model machine myth threads through them all. This book is an important resource for identifying and challenging persistent characterizations of Asians as nonhuman machines, as well as situating these characterizations within broader histories of Asian exclusion, exploitation, and abuse.\"\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMELUS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Bui [provides] extraordinary insights and deep scholarship in his study of the dehumanisation of Asians and Asian Americans. By focusing on the model machine stereotype, Bui creates an intersectional approach to lucidly uncovering the complex ways in which Asians and Asian Americans have been racialised and marginalised, looking at the intersections between race, gender, class, technology, humanity, capital, and power.... [T]he book is a valuable contribution to the fields of Asian and Asian American studies, the sociology of race and gender, the history of technology, media studies, and global political economy.\"\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEuropean Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408324763991,"sku":"9781439922347","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439922347.jpg?v=1730502446","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/model-machines-9781439922347","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}