Anne Anlin Cheng is professor of English and director of American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief and Second Skin: Josephine Baker and The Modern Surface. She is currently working on a new book project entitled The Radiant Object: Ornamentalism, Aesthetic Being.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
I’d Rather Be a Witch Than a Warrior
The ending of “Mulan” reassures us that she goes on to become a “legend”; yet, are not such honorifics precisely society’s reward for one’s compliance?...
The Shell Game: From “Get Out” to “Parasite”
Juxtaposing "Get Out" and "Parasite" raises uneasy questions about how American audiences process racial injury versus economic injury....
Anxious Pedigree: From Fresh-Off-The-Boat to “Crazy Rich Asians”
With "Crazy Rich Asians," we remain in danger of what Toni Morrison calls “adjustment without improvement” in the American racial optic....
Plenty
Anne Anlin Cheng on Lauren Greenfield’s new documentary "Generation Wealth."...
The Ghost in the Ghost
Anne Anlin Cheng on "Ghost in the Shell."...
