Experiments in Skin
Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam
1st Edition
Published on 22. February 2021
280 pages
978-1-4780-1313-6 (ISBN)
Description
Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the legacies of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty, showing how US wartime efforts to alleviate the environmental and chemical risks to soldiers' skin has impacted how contemporary Vietnamese women use pharmaceutical cosmetics to repair the damage from the war's lingering toxicity.
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Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion, also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Mysteries of the Visible 1
1. Skin Stories: Making Beauty in the Culture of Renovation 23
2. The Beautiful Life of Agent Orange 49
3. An Armor of Skin: Pacific Threats and the Dreams of Infinite Security 76
4. A Laboratory of Skin: Making Race in the Mekong Delta 104
5. Weak Skin, Strong Skin: The Work of Making Livable 134
Epilogue 161
Notes 165
Bibliography 201
Index 219
Introduction. Mysteries of the Visible 1
1. Skin Stories: Making Beauty in the Culture of Renovation 23
2. The Beautiful Life of Agent Orange 49
3. An Armor of Skin: Pacific Threats and the Dreams of Infinite Security 76
4. A Laboratory of Skin: Making Race in the Mekong Delta 104
5. Weak Skin, Strong Skin: The Work of Making Livable 134
Epilogue 161
Notes 165
Bibliography 201
Index 219
