University Studies Voices Lecture Series

Thursday, April 18, 2024 4:30–6:00 PM

Location
Persson Hall, 27
Website
https://calendar.colgate.edu/event/university-studies-voices-lecture-serier

Description

University Studies has invited Jennifer Lin LeMesurier, associate professor of writing and rhetoric, to talk on The Dark Side of "You Are What You Eat": Discourses on Asian Food and Asian People.Even as many believe we have entered a "postracial" era, historical biases against "rat eaters" or "bat eaters" still manifest today in discrimination and violence against Asian bodies. In this talk, Jennifer Lin LeMesurier considers how contemporary stereotypes of Asian food are rooted in long-standing assumptions about racial difference, embodiment, and hygiene. She traces interconnections between rhetorics of food and rhetorics of Asianness, demonstrating where beliefs about race are encoded in common discourse around food and eating. Anti-racist work needs to account for gut feelings about how we eat and what we put on our plates.

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