Status Updates From Racial Castration: Managing...

Screw this book! I mean it. Screw it. Only 227 pages of its 304 are actual text, the rest is notes and all. So I am almost almost half done and yet so far most of it was pointless psychological and techno babble. All the stuff it says about how Asian Americans are emasculated and denied a place in US history, I knew already and this adds nothing new. Even the reasons for linking it to homosexuality are not stated.

This book is fine when it gives you information about the social exclusion of Chinese and the stereotypes in both directions (e.g. portraying Chinese laborers as young gods or faeries or referring to whites as devils), but when it goes into technobabble and some other shit, the same shit over and over, it is plain annoying. The text only goes to page 228 and so far about half of this as useless babble.

Blablablablabla photography techobabble blablablablablablabla some actual interesting stuff about stereotyping that is drowned out blablablablablablabla photography techobabble blablablabla photography technobabble....
I don't care, give me something that actual has to do with "racial castration."

Gosh this was boring so far. I skipped all the parts about how photographs construct a reality instead of portraying one since I knew that already. The thing about that Japanese American believing he would not need glasses in Asia because there everything is constructed for "epicanthic eyes" was funny. The death of the Taiwanese sailor commiting suicide because he was supposed to be shipped to China was not.

...these chapters trace the psychic methods as well as the material practices with which we attempt to manage, misremember, or forget historical events configuring Asian American male subjectivity in ways that challenge the exceptionalist American ideology of liberty...

Finally this is not as dry anymore as the first 15 pages. And wonder how an analyses would be here, as the only overlap in the "feminized" professions would be restaurants, laundries and tailor's shops are not associates with Asians in any way here except maybe important from the USA, which is possible.

So this book mostly deals with Chinese American and Japanese American studies... well that is a bummer, but it serves the reason well as to why I want to read this. However it would be interesting to read whether KPop had any influence here, considered the often androgynous looks that many have.