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SUMMARY:Open discussion with Corinne Mitsuye Sugino\, author of Making the
  Human
DESCRIPTION:Making the Human: Race\, Allegory\, and Asian Americans\nWith 
 Corinne Mitsuye Sugino\n\nJoin Stream: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84452011
 747\n\nAbout the Book\nWinner of the 2026 Cultural Studies Association Fi
 rst Book Prize\n\nFrom the debate over affirmative action to the increasi
 ngly visible racism amidst the COVID-19 pandemic\, Asian Americans have e
 merged as key figures in a number of contemporary social controversies. I
 n Making the Human: Race\, Allegory\, and Asian Americans\, Corinne Mitsu
 ye Sugino offers the lens of racial allegory to consider how media\, inst
 itutional\, and cultural narratives mobilize difference to normalize a wh
 ite\, Western conception of the human. Rather than focusing on a singular
  arena of society\, Sugino considers contemporary sources across media\, 
 law\, and popular culture to understand how they interact as dynamic site
 s of meaning-making. Drawing on scholarship in Asian American studies\, B
 lack studies\, cultural studies\, communication\, and gender and sexualit
 y studies\, Sugino argues that Asian American racialization and gendering
  plays a key role in shoring up abstract concepts such as “meritocracy\,”
  “family\,” “justice\,” “diversity\,” and “nation” in ways that naturaliz
 e hierarchy. In doing so\, Making the Human grapples with anti-Asian raci
 sm’s entanglements with colonialism\, antiblackness\, capitalism\, and ge
 ndered violence.\n\nPart of the "'On Violence' Experimental Study Sequenc
 e" (pt. 3\, Fall 2026)\nJoin us for a sequence of conversations with auth
 ors of key text\n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/f726a2be-8107-4afc-8ce7-ac
 be2357dcc5
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