Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu

Experiments in Skin

Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam

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Produktbeschreibung

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the legacies of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty, showing how US wartime efforts to alleviate the environmental and chemical risks to soldiers' skin has impacted how contemporary Vietnamese women use pharmaceutical cosmetics to repair the damage from the war's lingering toxicity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781478011774
• ISBN-10: 1478011777
• Artikelnr.: 59761755

Autorenporträt

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. Mysteries of the Visible  1
1. Skin Stories: Making Beauty in the Culture of Renovation  23
2. The Beautiful Life of Agent Orange  49
3. An Armor of Skin: Pacific Threats and the Dreams of Infinite Security 
76
4. A Laboratory of Skin: Making Race in the Mekong Delta  104
5. Weak Skin, Strong Skin: The Work of Making Livable  134
Epilogue  161
Notes  165
Bibliography  201
Index  219