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Anne Anlin Cheng

Anne Anlin Cheng is professor of English at Princeton University. She is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief; Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface; and Ornamentalism.

Mysteries of the Visible

“Passing” reminds us that the raced body, like race itself, is an enigma of visual experience....

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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?...

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GENDER & SEXUALITY

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....

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AROUND THE WORLD

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Anxious Pedigree: From Fresh-Off-The-Boat to “Crazy Rich Asians”

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Plenty

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The Ghost in the Ghost

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