Christine Kim is an associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University.

"Christine Kim's The Minor Intimacies of Race is a necessary and insightful look into the process of defining race and the experience of prejudice. . . . Kim should be applauded for her nuanced and informative approach to a very important topic."--Ethnic and Racial Studies  "A valuable contribution to the study of Asian Canadian and Asian American literature. Importantly, Kim's compassion for and integrity to the subject is evident and admirable."--English Studies in Canada"Provides an exceptionally generative paradigm for thinking about those forms of collective identification that do not achieve the solidity of fully-fledged political movements but that nonetheless register in illuminating ways the everyday life of race in Asian North America. A fascinating and timely study."--Daniel Kim, author of Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin and the Literary Politics of Identity

• CoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Multiculturalism, Minor Publics, and Social Intimacy1. National Incompletion: Awkward Multiculturalisms and Denaturalizing Whiteness2. Transnational Triviality: Print and Digital Asian North American Publics3. Diasporic Fragility and Brokenness: Korean War Legacies and Structures of Feeling4. Global Loss: Metaphoric Substitution and the Logic of Human RightsConclusion: Ephemeral Publics and Roy Kiyooka's StoneDGlovesNotesWorks CitedIndex

Christine Kim is an associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University.

"Christine Kim's The Minor Intimacies of Race is a necessary and insightful look into the process of defining race and the experience of prejudice. . . . Kim should be applauded for her nuanced and informative approach to a very important topic."--Ethnic and Racial Studies  "A valuable contribution to the study of Asian Canadian and Asian American literature. Importantly, Kim's compassion for and integrity to the subject is evident and admirable."--English Studies in Canada"Provides an exceptionally generative paradigm for thinking about those forms of collective identification that do not achieve the solidity of fully-fledged political movements but that nonetheless register in illuminating ways the everyday life of race in Asian North America. A fascinating and timely study."--Daniel Kim, author of Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin and the Literary Politics of Identity

• CoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Multiculturalism, Minor Publics, and Social Intimacy1. National Incompletion: Awkward Multiculturalisms and Denaturalizing Whiteness2. Transnational Triviality: Print and Digital Asian North American Publics3. Diasporic Fragility and Brokenness: Korean War Legacies and Structures of Feeling4. Global Loss: Metaphoric Substitution and the Logic of Human RightsConclusion: Ephemeral Publics and Roy Kiyooka's StoneDGlovesNotesWorks CitedIndex

Christine Kim is an associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University.

"Christine Kim's The Minor Intimacies of Race is a necessary and insightful look into the process of defining race and the experience of prejudice. . . . Kim should be applauded for her nuanced and informative approach to a very important topic."--Ethnic and Racial Studies  "A valuable contribution to the study of Asian Canadian and Asian American literature. Importantly, Kim's compassion for and integrity to the subject is evident and admirable."--English Studies in Canada"Provides an exceptionally generative paradigm for thinking about those forms of collective identification that do not achieve the solidity of fully-fledged political movements but that nonetheless register in illuminating ways the everyday life of race in Asian North America. A fascinating and timely study."--Daniel Kim, author of Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin and the Literary Politics of Identity

• CoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Multiculturalism, Minor Publics, and Social Intimacy1. National Incompletion: Awkward Multiculturalisms and Denaturalizing Whiteness2. Transnational Triviality: Print and Digital Asian North American Publics3. Diasporic Fragility and Brokenness: Korean War Legacies and Structures of Feeling4. Global Loss: Metaphoric Substitution and the Logic of Human RightsConclusion: Ephemeral Publics and Roy Kiyooka's StoneDGlovesNotesWorks CitedIndex