Thursday, March 30, 2017 4:30pm
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13 Oak Dr., Hamilton, NY 13346
This talk explores the stark binary between the characters of the Western postracial creator and the non-Western hyperracial infringer, with particular emphasis on intellectual property discourse’s role in creating racialized anti-citizens.
Focusing on the rhetorical construction of Chinese piracy and counterfeiting, it illustrates how the hyperracial infringer is constructed and deployed in public culture. China is one of three nations consistently included on the US Trade Representative’s Special 301 Priority Watch List. That fact, of course, is unsurprising giving consistent public cultural representations of China as infringer.
Through examination of Special 301 Reports, government and think tank policy reports, and news articles, this talk argues that China is routinely constructed as postmillennial yellow peril through:
The representations of China operate to modernize past fears of Asian citizenship and attempts to represent the Chinese as fundamentally Other and different.
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