Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America

Racial Castration, the first book to bring together the fields of Asian American studies and psychoanalytic theory, explores the role of sexuality in racial formation and the place of race in sexual identity. David L. Eng examines images—literary, visual, and filmic—that configure past as well as contemporary perceptions of Asian American men as emasculated, homosexualized, or queer.

Eng juxtaposes theortical discussions of Freud, Lacan, and Fanon with critical readings of works by Frank Ch...