Anne Anlin Cheng is a professor of English at Princeton University and the author, most recently, of Ornamentalism (2019) and Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority (2024).
Anne Anlin Cheng
Articles
Paranoia, Perspicacity, and Afro-Asian Pessimism
Anne Anlin Cheng looks deeper into Ryan Coogler’s new film “Sinners” and its violent exploration of racial oppression.
Waiting for Barbie
Anne Anlin Cheng recalls her first, foreign Barbie experience.
Mysteries of the Visible
“Passing” reminds us that the raced body, like race itself, is an enigma of visual experience.
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."
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