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Being of a non-Caucasian race in America immediately sets you apart. Your language and demeanor are immediately noted, whether anyone acknowledges it or not. When your own racial group participates, the list of behaviors grows exponentially. Chambers-Letson (performance studies, Northwestern U) believes that many groups, controlled by elders and others, have these unspoken lists of rules of behaviors, and members of those groups are forced to behave in a certain way. He calls the juxtapositioning of the privately held list of behaviors and the instances when certain behaviors are publicly proscribed the "Madame Butterfly" effect and describes what happens when the two cross into law, describes reparative justice in Ping Cong's Chinoiserie, describes how patriotism was performed in the internment camps during World War II, shows the political performability of the Moriyuki Shimada scrap book, and looks into the recent radicalization of Cambodian America. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
