Racial Beings

• Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Human: Reading Besides the Individual Racialized Subject 11. Object: Excavating Waste’s Ecologies of Entanglement 252. Gene: Rethinking Clone Fiction’s Consciousness 573. Element: Relating Water’s Phase Changes 934. Species: Reorienting Alien Encounters 1275. Atom: Dissipating Nuclear Exceptionalism 159Conclusion. Race: Accessing a Multiverse of Matter and Meaning 189Notes 199Bibliography 225Index

“In this strikingly elegant and philosophical book, Michelle N. Huang makes a compelling case for why Asian Americans are an apt template for unveiling the line between the human and nonhuman. Focusing on experimental Asian American creative practices that challenge the materiality of race, Huang shows us how the projection of racialization onto things in the natural world enables varying forms of resource extraction, whether animal, mineral, or human.”—Leslie Bow, author of, Racist Love: Asian Abstraction and the Pleasures of Fantasy