Nhi T. Lieu is assistant professor of American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of The American Dream in Vietnamese (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). Her other..
Nhi T. Lieu is assistant professor of American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is author of The American Dream in Vietnamese (University of Minnesota Press, 2011). Her other published works have appeared in Frontiers: Journal of Women Studies and Alien Encounters: Popular Culture in Asian America. Her new book project titled, Beautiful Citizenship: Transnational Asian/American Embodied Practices in the Age Neoliberal Capitalism, explores how the strategies of consumption in private and personal choices in fashion and beauty reconstitutes cultural and racial identities while transforming meanings of citizenship through embodied practices.
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