Sublime

Hawaiians' authenticity as an autochthonous people was and is often tied to their relationship to land and ocean.

installing a discourse of Hawaiian cultural participation in everyday militarized life.

Their vision of Asian America—defined by “unite all who will be united”—failed. Not because of the conviction of the actors, but because the flood of Asians who came to the United States after Hart-Celler had no experience with American racism or oppression.

Banal, in that, despite an uncustomary gentleness of mien, the morphological type was one very much in the public domain; it exemplified what I take to be a specifically American criterion of ‘cuteness’ – which is to say, beauty untranscended by mystery, tragedy or spirituality, beauty golden and well nourished and so vacuously secure in its own na

mien.

Chinatown and indeed being Chinese is and always has been, from the very beginning, a construction, a performance of features, gestures, culture, and exoticism. An invention, a reinvention, a stylization. Figuring out the show, finding our place in it, which was the background, as scenery, as nonspeaking players. Figuring out what you’re allowed to