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Esther Kim Lee, Frances Hill Fox Professor of Theater Studies, International Comparatives Studies, and History, Duke University
November 20
Book Talk (Co-Sponsored w/Departments of Theatre & History)
Professor Esther Kim Lee, Frances Hill Fox Professor of Theater Studies, International Comparatives Studies, and History, Duke University.
Professor Lee will be speaking about her award-winning book, Made-Up Asians: Yellowface During the Exclusion Era (University of Michigan Press, 2022). Her book offers an extensive examination of the practice of yellowface as a historical way through which non- Asian performers portrayed Asian characters in theater, film, and media.
November 20 (Thursday), 5-6:30pm
White Hall 205
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