Corinne Mitsuye Sugino is a GAHDT faculty cluster hire.
Join the Department of English and Center for Ethnic Studies for a presentation and celebration of Corinne Mitsuye Sugino’s new book, Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans. Light refreshments will be served.
From the debate over affirmative action to the increasingly visible racism amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans have emerged as highly-visible figures in a number of contemporary social controversies. Making the Human grapples with this heightened visibility, examining contemporary rhetorical sources across media, law and popular culture. 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” to naturalize a limited understanding of what it means to be human.
About the Author
Corinne Mitusye Sugino is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Center for Ethnic Studies. Their research focus lies at the intersections of Asian American studies, cultural studies, rhetorical theory, and media studies. Beyond this Making the Human, her research interests also include discourses of false inclusion, comparative racialization, the Asian American movement, and transpacific race relations in Japan.
Event Details
This event is free and open to the public and will take place in person (Denney Hall 311) and virtually (register below using button to receive the Zoom link).
This event is sponsored by the Center for Ethnic Studies, the Asian American Studies Program, the Department of English and the Humanities Institute.
Accessibility
To submit an accommodation request, please send your request to MacKenzie DiMarco: dimarco.33@osu.edu.
