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Waiting for Barbie
Anne Anlin Cheng recalls her first, foreign Barbie experience....
Anne Anlin Cheng
Anne Anlin Cheng is a professor of English at Princeton University and 2023–24 Scholar in Residence at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her book of personal essays, Ordinary Disasters, is forthcoming from Alfred A. Knopf in 2024.
Articles
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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