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CARTOGRAPHIES OF SKIN:
ASIAN AMERICAN ADORNMENT AND THE AESTHETICS OF RACE
by
Todd Honma
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY)
May 2011
Copyright 2011 Todd Honma
Object Description
| Title | Cartographies of skin: Asian American adornment and the aesthetics of race |
| Author | Honma, Todd Sano Urbano |
| Author email | toddhonma@gmail.com; todd.honma@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | American Studies & Ethnicity |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-01-10 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-02-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Kondo, Dorinne |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson Halberstam, Judith Lippit, Akira Mizuta Tongson, Karen |
| Abstract | “Cartographies of Skin: Asian American Adornment and the Aesthetics of Race” is a pan-ethnic study of Asian American tattoo practices in California and their significance within a broader cross-cultural context of the Pacific World. I examine how ideologies and epistemologies of race, space, and aesthetics converge on the surface of the skin in ways that can reflect, reinforce, and potentially subvert U.S. social hierarchies and hegemonic cultural logics. I analyze the transformative effects that occur when bodies that display socially imposed racial markings (usually coded as the color of one's skin) become further marked by self-induced forms of body aesthetics. My research incorporates mixed methods of archival research, visual and discursive analysis, ethnographic fieldwork, and critical theory to cover topics such as: the transnational movements of labor and aesthetics between tattoo shops in San Francisco and Japan; the meanings of diaspora, temporality, and post-coloniality within the context of tribal tattooing among Filipinos in Los Angeles; and the embodied ontologies and performative epistemologies of a Korean American tattooed drag queen and her queer aesthetics of adornment. By exploring the cultural politics of body modification, I analyze how all bodies are modified in some form or another, thereby destabilizing normativized notions of what is considered natural and normal forms of cultural and national belonging. |
| Keyword | Asian Americans; tattoos; race; California |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3643 |
| Rights | Honma, Todd Sano Urbano |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Honma-4278 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume32/etd-Honma-4278.pdf |
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| Full text | CARTOGRAPHIES OF SKIN: ASIAN AMERICAN ADORNMENT AND THE AESTHETICS OF RACE by Todd Honma A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (AMERICAN STUDIES AND ETHNICITY) May 2011 Copyright 2011 Todd Honma |
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