Rachel C Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3852786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel C Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel C |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE R C |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCLA Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8752-2164 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1825 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What's Racial About Matter
This essay features a roundtable conversation between scholars working at the intersections of race and matter. It takes a dialectical and conversational approach to embody the methods of its contents. It speaks to the paradox of contouring a field that presses upon subject/object divides, questions and theorizes the boundedness of a liberal human subject and situates its analysis by recognizing relational positionality and citational generosity …
“Settler Maintenance” and Migrant Domestic Worker Ecologies of Care
Oral histories of Latina domestic workers in the United States feature hybrid narratives combining accounts of illness and “toxic discourse”. We approach domestic workers’ illnesses and disabilities in a capacious, extra-medical context that registers multiple axes of precarity (economic, racial, and migratory). We are naming this context “settler maintenance”. Riffing on the specific and general valences of “maintenance” (i.e., as a synonym for …
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America
Addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America
Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts? Engaging novels, poetry, theater, and new media from both the U.S. and internationally—such as Kaz…
The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature
Asian America.Net
Asian America.Net demonstrates how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology, illuminating the complex networks of identity, community, and history in the digital age
The selfish brain
Obesity and type 2 diabetes have become the major health problems in many industrialized countries. Here, I present the unconventional concept that a healthy organism maintains its systemic homeostasis by a “competent brain‐pull”, i.e., the brain's ability to properly demand glucose from the body, and that the underlying cause of obesity is “incompetent brain‐pull.” I describe the energy fluxes from the environment, through the body, toward the b…
Culture Studies Book Prize Awardee
Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women, by Laura Hyun Yi Kang (Duke University Press, 2002). Award Committee: (chair) Rachel C. Lee, Sarita See, Caroline Chung Simpson Award Committee: (chair) Rachel C. Lee, Sarita See, Caroline Chung Simpson Among an excellent set of entries for the cultural studies award this year, Laura Hyun Yi Kang's Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women was our committee's clear first choic…
Where's My Parade
Margaret Cho rose to fame as the star of the first television sitcom to feature an all Asian American cast. Her one-woman show, I'm the One That I Want, recounts that disastrous experience, as it also maps American culture as a series of segregated spaces. Lee's article explores Cho's construction of her bodily excesses—her dirty vagina, collapsed bladder, inability to be decidable as either gay or straight—and theorizes these bodily tactics in t…
Reading Contests and Contesting Reading
Reading Contests and Contesting Reading: Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker and Ethnic New York Rachel C. Lee Rachel C. Lee 1UCLA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 29, Issue 3-4, Fall/Winter 2004, Pages 341–352, https://doi.org/10.2307/4141859 Published: 01 September 2004
Psycho Karaoke (review)
Psycho Karaoke, the latest offering from the Asian American sketch comedy team the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors (18MMW), opens with one of the players asking the audience to recite the Pledge of Allegiance along with him. To demonstrate, he lifts his arm in a Nazi salute and shouts "Sieg Heil!" Incidentally, when the salute to the American flag was introduced in 1892, it featured this very posture. (During World War II, Congress revised the pledge…
Performing Asian America
The Americas of Asian American Literature
Rachel Lee examines four major prose works by Bulosan, Jen, Hagedom, and Yamashita through the lens of gender with an additional focus on national or transnational identity. In her introduction, Lee astutely asserts While Asian Americanists debate the political, cultural, and social consequences of reconstituting Asian America's geopolitical borders in international, transnational, and postnational terms, gender in Asian American literary studies…
"The Erasure of Places and the Re-Siting of Empire in Wendy Law-Yone's "The Coffin Tree
For some while now, Asian American Studies has been engaged in a frenzy of self-critique with regard to the changing parameters of the field. Critics from a wide range of disciplines have chastised each other for taking the experiences of East Asian Americans (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Koreans) as paradigmatic for the whole of Asian America, thereby marginalizing the distinctive cultures of South Asian and Southeast Asian settlers in the United St…
Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo, during the autumn of 1823, while on his third voyage to Africa
Chapter II
Where's My Parade
Margaret Cho rose to fame as the star of the first television sitcom to feature an all Asian American cast. Her one-woman show, I'm the One That I Want, recounts that disastrous experience, as it also maps American culture as a series of segregated spaces. Lee's article explores Cho's construction of her bodily excesses—her dirty vagina, collapsed bladder, inability to be decidable as either gay or straight—and theorizes these bodily tactics in t…
Reading Contests and Contesting Reading
Reading Contests and Contesting Reading: Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker and Ethnic New York Rachel C. Lee Rachel C. Lee 1UCLA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 29, Issue 3-4, Fall/Winter 2004, Pages 341–352, https://doi.org/10.2307/4141859 Published: 01 September 2004
"The Erasure of Places and the Re-Siting of Empire in Wendy Law-Yone's "The Coffin Tree
For some while now, Asian American Studies has been engaged in a frenzy of self-critique with regard to the changing parameters of the field. Critics from a wide range of disciplines have chastised each other for taking the experiences of East Asian Americans (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Koreans) as paradigmatic for the whole of Asian America, thereby marginalizing the distinctive cultures of South Asian and Southeast Asian settlers in the United St…
Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo, during the autumn of 1823, while on his third voyage to Africa
Chapter II
"The Erasure of Places and the Re-Siting of Empire in Wendy Law-Yone's "The Coffin Tree
For some while now, Asian American Studies has been engaged in a frenzy of self-critique with regard to the changing parameters of the field. Critics from a wide range of disciplines have chastised each other for taking the experiences of East Asian Americans (e.g., Chinese, Japanese, Koreans) as paradigmatic for the whole of Asian America, thereby marginalizing the distinctive cultures of South Asian and Southeast Asian settlers in the United St…
The Americas of Asian American Literature
Rachel Lee examines four major prose works by Bulosan, Jen, Hagedom, and Yamashita through the lens of gender with an additional focus on national or transnational identity. In her introduction, Lee astutely asserts While Asian Americanists debate the political, cultural, and social consequences of reconstituting Asian America's geopolitical borders in international, transnational, and postnational terms, gender in Asian American literary studies…
Performing Asian America
Psycho Karaoke (review)
Psycho Karaoke, the latest offering from the Asian American sketch comedy team the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors (18MMW), opens with one of the players asking the audience to recite the Pledge of Allegiance along with him. To demonstrate, he lifts his arm in a Nazi salute and shouts "Sieg Heil!" Incidentally, when the salute to the American flag was introduced in 1892, it featured this very posture. (During World War II, Congress revised the pledge…
Culture Studies Book Prize Awardee
Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women, by Laura Hyun Yi Kang (Duke University Press, 2002). Award Committee: (chair) Rachel C. Lee, Sarita See, Caroline Chung Simpson Award Committee: (chair) Rachel C. Lee, Sarita See, Caroline Chung Simpson Among an excellent set of entries for the cultural studies award this year, Laura Hyun Yi Kang's Compositional Subjects: Enfiguring Asian/American Women was our committee's clear first choic…
Where's My Parade
Margaret Cho rose to fame as the star of the first television sitcom to feature an all Asian American cast. Her one-woman show, I'm the One That I Want, recounts that disastrous experience, as it also maps American culture as a series of segregated spaces. Lee's article explores Cho's construction of her bodily excesses—her dirty vagina, collapsed bladder, inability to be decidable as either gay or straight—and theorizes these bodily tactics in t…
Reading Contests and Contesting Reading
Reading Contests and Contesting Reading: Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker and Ethnic New York Rachel C. Lee Rachel C. Lee 1UCLA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 29, Issue 3-4, Fall/Winter 2004, Pages 341–352, https://doi.org/10.2307/4141859 Published: 01 September 2004
The selfish brain
Obesity and type 2 diabetes have become the major health problems in many industrialized countries. Here, I present the unconventional concept that a healthy organism maintains its systemic homeostasis by a “competent brain‐pull”, i.e., the brain's ability to properly demand glucose from the body, and that the underlying cause of obesity is “incompetent brain‐pull.” I describe the energy fluxes from the environment, through the body, toward the b…
Asian America.Net
Asian America.Net demonstrates how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology, illuminating the complex networks of identity, community, and history in the digital age
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America
Winner of the 2016 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Cultural Studies The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts? Engaging novels, poetry, theater, and new media from both the U.S. and internationally—such as Kaz…
The Routledge Companion to Asian American and Pacific Islander Literature
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America
Addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts
“Settler Maintenance” and Migrant Domestic Worker Ecologies of Care
Oral histories of Latina domestic workers in the United States feature hybrid narratives combining accounts of illness and “toxic discourse”. We approach domestic workers’ illnesses and disabilities in a capacious, extra-medical context that registers multiple axes of precarity (economic, racial, and migratory). We are naming this context “settler maintenance”. Riffing on the specific and general valences of “maintenance” (i.e., as a synonym for …
What's Racial About Matter
This essay features a roundtable conversation between scholars working at the intersections of race and matter. It takes a dialectical and conversational approach to embody the methods of its contents. It speaks to the paradox of contouring a field that presses upon subject/object divides, questions and theorizes the boundedness of a liberal human subject and situates its analysis by recognizing relational positionality and citational generosity …
Asian American and Pacific Histories (10 works) · History (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Ethnic group (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works)