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Performing a Geography of Asian America: The Chop Suey Circuit
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 55, Number 1, Spring 2011 (T209)
- pp. 120-136
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
The Chop Suey Circuit describes Asian American cabaret performers who toured the US from the 1930s through the '50s. Performing the era's popular songs and dances, these "Orientals" were novel yet familiar, exotic yet accessible. At a time of war, internment, and segregation they simultaneously solidified and challenged racial cartographies that would emplace race.
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