The Movies of Racial Childhoods: Screening Self-Sovereignty in Asian/America

In The Movies of Racial Childhoods Celine Parreñas Shimizu examines early twenty—first—century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children. Drawing on psychoanalysis and her own perspective as a mother grieving for a deceased child, Shimizu considers how cinema renders Asian American children through sexualized racial difference, infantilization, and premature adultification. She looks at how Asian American childhood is characterized in film through experiences of alienat...