PUBLICATIONS

My monograph Race and Role: The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama  from Rutgers University Press traces the shifting identities of multiracial Asian figures in theater from the late-nineteenth century to the present day. Mixed-Asian playwrights harness theater’s generative power to enact performances of “double liminality” and expose the absurd tenacity with which society clings to a tenuous racial scaffolding. 

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Border Crossings challenges accepted histories of dance modernism to consider how war, exile, inequality, and injustice shaped twentieth century performance art. This collection from New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and UC Santa Barbara is the outgrowth of a bi-coastal exhibition that demonstrates how exiled and marginalized artists catalyzed modern dance, giving voice to crucial issues of geopolitical circumstance and structural racism. Crossing Borders—physical, geographic, racial, artistic, spiritual—either by choice or by force, became a historical circumstance out of people's control. These crossings are woven into the grammar of “the modern” in dance. They are its DNA.

Shape Shifters presents a wide-ranging array of essays that examine peoples of mixed racial identity. Shape Shifters explores these mixed-race identities as fluid, ambiguous, contingent, multiple, and malleable. This volume from the University of Nebraska Press expands our understandings of how individuals and ethnic groups identify themselves within their own sociohistorical contexts. 

The Beiging of America is a thought-provoking collection of personal narratives that explore racial identity through the firsthand accounts of mixed-race people in the United States. My essay, "The White Wilderness" is featured in this anthology from 2Leaf Press and the University of Chicago Press.