Anne Anlin Cheng

Anne Anlin Cheng is an English professor at Princeton. She is the author of The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation, and Hidden Grief, Second Skin: Josephine Baker & the Modern Surface, and Ornamentalism.

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The Dehumanizing Logic of All the ‘Happy Ending’ Jokes

The Atlanta shootings speak to a prejudice that is deeply ingrained, if largely unacknowledged, in American society.
- Anne Anlin Cheng
- March 23, 2021
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The Double Meaning of the American Dream

Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari is filled with symbols of abundance that are also residues of prosaic commercialism.
- Anne Anlin Cheng
- February 19, 2021