Acknowledgments – Introduction: Asians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics – Queerness of Sticky Rice: In and Across Yellow Fever and Front Cover – Queering Gender Borders of Sticky Rice: On Koreatown – Living in Paradox: Seeing "Alternative Cartographies" through Sticky Rice – Pedagogy of Unfreedom: Building Queer Relationalities through Sticky Rice – Monstrous Onē Performance: Sticking with Hikawa Kiyoshi [氷川きよし] – Coda: Turning Points: Queer Desire in Progress – Appendix I – About the Author – Index.
Shinsuke Eguchi (Ph.D., Howard University) is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of New Mexico. They are a recipient of the 2019 Randy Majors Award bestowed by the National Communication Association’s Caucus on GLBT Concerns recognizing a scholar making outstanding contributions to LGBTQ Communication Scholarship.
“Asians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics
takes the vernacular discourse of ‘sticky rice,’ which refers to
same sex desire between Asian men, from aphorism to theoretical
frame and political activist affect. It is part confessional and
part critically embodied theory building that deconstructs
internalized racism perpetuated in the hegemony of colonialism of
same sex desire. In Asians Loving Asians, Shinsuke Eguchi deftly
engages queer color critique with an unwavering voracity that does
not drift in abstract theoreticality, but is made manifest in the
embodied practices of queer Asian men and their performative
resistance against exoticism and the return to self-love. In the
process there are close readings of media representations of queer
Asian desire; ethnographic interviews with queer Asian male
subjects; and the criticality of self-affirmations to create a
counter hegemonic queer Asian-futurism that calls us all to attend.
Eguchi establishes a fierce postcolonial queer of color critique
that expands the focus of inquiry, discovery and positionality with
the queer Asian subject. The work emerges from the body of the
author, and thus both centers and it decenters staid presentations
and proclamations of queer theory. Asians Loving Asians: Sticky
Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics reads as critical
autoethnographic discovery and offers a new template of sociality
from a transnational Asian queer perspective. Asians Loving Asians
is a must read for anyone seeking to explore the most bracing
aspects of queer of color critique, by exploring a more expansive
focus on racialized queer diversity. The book as a whole is
liberating for the author and will be so for all who engage it. And
like Marlon Riggs, who wrote about the audacity of Black men loving
Black men, maybe Shinsuke Eguishi could also argue that ‘Asian men
loving Asian men is a revolutionary act.’” —Bryant Keith Alexander,
Dean, College of Communication and Fine Arts, and Interim Dean,
School of Television and Film, Loyola Marymount University,
Co-Author of Collaborative Spirit-Writing Performance in Everyday
Black Lives and Still Hanging: Using Performance Texts to
Deconstruct Racism, and Co-Editor of The Routledge Handbook of
Gender and Communication
“In Asians Loving Asians, Shinsuke Eguchi offers a much needed
intervention into the exploration of gay sexual cultures and the
meaning attributed to whiteness and white desires within gay
communities both nationally and globally and the impact such
desires have on multiple different arenas. Through adapt use of
various methods and theoretical perspectives, this work
demonstrates the ways that ‘sticky rice,’ the coupling of two Asian
men in sexual relationships, can both be powerful and problematic.
This book is a major accomplishment that will shape how we perceive
inter and intra racial desire and the wide reaching impact of such
desires beyond personal intimacies.” —Chong-suk Winter Han,
Professor of Sociology, Middlebury College and Author of Geisha of
a Different Kind: Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America and Racial
Erotics: Gay Men of Color, Sexual Racism, and the Politics of
Desire
“It’s 2022, and we’re all in favor of post-colonial, non-Western,
intersectional investigations of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity.
But, alas, easier said than done. Luckily, Shinsuke Eguchi is
showing us how this can be done, in the best possible way, by doing
it. Asians Loving Asians is a pathbreaking work that will enlighten
us all, and that will inspire new directions in queer scholarship.”
—Larry Gross, Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for
Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California and
Founder and Editor of the International Journal of Communication
and the Annenberg Press Book Series
“Written in Eguchi’s distinctive and compelling voice, Asians
Loving Asians will make you rethink your assumptions about race,
gender, sexuality, and nation. Bringing together the fields of
communication, Asian American studies, and Queer studies, the book
displays an astonishing intellectual breadth. At the same time, it
provides a template for pushing the boundaries of qualitative
methods and demonstrates the transformative possibilities of
critical, cultural, and auto-ethnographic methods.” —LeiLani
Nishime, Professor of Communication, University of Washington and
Author of Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual
Culture and Co-Editor of Racial Ecologies
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