Xine Yao
Biographic Data
| ID | 4000059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xine Yao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xine |
| FAMILY NAME | Yao |
| SIGNATURE | YAO X |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5207-2618 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
An American Grammar Book
Written in the aftermath of the 2025 UK Supreme Court decision on “biological sex,” these three provocations play with the collusions between British colonialism and American settler colonialism that structure regimes of the racializing and gendering of sex and gender. The first provocation takes up the subtitle “An American Grammar Book” of Hortense Spillers's iconic essay “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe” to reflect on the tangled histories of how Am…
The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies takes stock of critical developments over the past twenty years, offering a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in this field. In eclectic fashion, it presents a wide range of new approaches in such areas as print and material culture, Black studies, Latinx studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, postsecular studies, and Indigenous studies. This volume also maps ou…
Mary Grace Albanese, Black Women and the Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature
Haiti, once named San Domingo by its colonizers, disrupts Western conceptions of how power is racialized and gendered. Empowered, disempowered: this simplistic logic can be said to overdetermine the popular understanding of political possibilities. In its most literal and material manifestation, one might make links between the power outages experienced by modern Haiti and the overpolicing of Black communities including the Haitian diaspora durin…
Possessing Polynesians
Reviewed by: Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania by Maile Arvin Xine Yao (bio) Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania, by Maile Arvin. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. Xi + 313 pp. $27.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-4780-0633-6. Maile Arvin’s Possessing Polynesians was prominently displayed alongside other works by Native Hawaiian scholars at the 2019…
Arctic and Asian Indigeneities, Asian/North American Settler/Colonialism
By bracketing whiteness, Avatar: The Last Airbender reorients us to how global colonial modernity produces biopolitical difference as a technology of management to defamiliarize Asian and Indigenous relationalities. Approaching it as a site of alternative contact, I consider Lisa Lowe's intimacies of colonial comparative processes in apposition with insurgent counter-intimacies. This essay traces portrayals of Asian imperialism, colonialism, and …
Disaffected
In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling-affects that are not recognized as feeling-as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of universal feeling. Yao traces how works by Herman Melville, Martin R. Delany, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Sui Sin Far engaged major sociopolitical issues in ways that resist…
Staywoke
In this essay I explore how the hashtag injunction #staywoke associated with Black Lives Matter challenges digital engagement and literacies in American studies antiracist pedagogy. This phrase calls for an awakening into a sustained awareness of intersectional social justice focused on antiblackness through social media: I discuss my pedagogical experiments in teaching a course on Black American and Asian American comparative racialization, wher…
Staywoke
In this essay I explore how the hashtag injunction #staywoke associated with Black Lives Matter challenges digital engagement and literacies in American studies antiracist pedagogy. This phrase calls for an awakening into a sustained awareness of intersectional social justice focused on antiblackness through social media: I discuss my pedagogical experiments in teaching a course on Black American and Asian American comparative racialization, wher…
Staywoke
In this essay I explore how the hashtag injunction #staywoke associated with Black Lives Matter challenges digital engagement and literacies in American studies antiracist pedagogy. This phrase calls for an awakening into a sustained awareness of intersectional social justice focused on antiblackness through social media: I discuss my pedagogical experiments in teaching a course on Black American and Asian American comparative racialization, wher…
Possessing Polynesians
Reviewed by: Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania by Maile Arvin Xine Yao (bio) Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania, by Maile Arvin. Durham: Duke University Press, 2019. Xi + 313 pp. $27.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-4780-0633-6. Maile Arvin’s Possessing Polynesians was prominently displayed alongside other works by Native Hawaiian scholars at the 2019…
Arctic and Asian Indigeneities, Asian/North American Settler/Colonialism
By bracketing whiteness, Avatar: The Last Airbender reorients us to how global colonial modernity produces biopolitical difference as a technology of management to defamiliarize Asian and Indigenous relationalities. Approaching it as a site of alternative contact, I consider Lisa Lowe's intimacies of colonial comparative processes in apposition with insurgent counter-intimacies. This essay traces portrayals of Asian imperialism, colonialism, and …
Disaffected
In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling-affects that are not recognized as feeling-as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century America. She positions unfeeling beyond sentimentalism's paradigm of universal feeling. Yao traces how works by Herman Melville, Martin R. Delany, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Sui Sin Far engaged major sociopolitical issues in ways that resist…
Mary Grace Albanese, Black Women and the Energies of Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Haitian and American Literature
Haiti, once named San Domingo by its colonizers, disrupts Western conceptions of how power is racialized and gendered. Empowered, disempowered: this simplistic logic can be said to overdetermine the popular understanding of political possibilities. In its most literal and material manifestation, one might make links between the power outages experienced by modern Haiti and the overpolicing of Black communities including the Haitian diaspora durin…
The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies
The New Nineteenth-Century American Literary Studies takes stock of critical developments over the past twenty years, offering a fresh examination of key interpretative issues in this field. In eclectic fashion, it presents a wide range of new approaches in such areas as print and material culture, Black studies, Latinx studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies, postsecular studies, and Indigenous studies. This volume also maps ou…
An American Grammar Book
Written in the aftermath of the 2025 UK Supreme Court decision on “biological sex,” these three provocations play with the collusions between British colonialism and American settler colonialism that structure regimes of the racializing and gendering of sex and gender. The first provocation takes up the subtitle “An American Grammar Book” of Hortense Spillers's iconic essay “Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe” to reflect on the tangled histories of how Am…
History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · Ecology (2 works)