Alison Yeh Cheung

1 article
California Polytechnic State University
  1. Voice, Unhearability, and Epistemic Violence: The Making of a Sonic Identity
    Abstract

    ABSTRACT This article suggests that Asian American rhetorics of sound destabilize representational politics by complicating the racialization of sonic difference. The author investigates the relationship between notions of Asian American citizenship and not-Blackness in vocal performance. By attending to sonic rhetorics through Awkwafina’s blaccent controversy, the article explores the condition of epistemic violence that position Asian American voices as “unhearable.”

    doi:10.5325/philrhet.56.3-4.0357