{"id":28071,"date":"2017-10-23T08:23:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T15:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?p=28071"},"modified":"2021-01-13T09:40:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:40:44","slug":"sharon-luk-book-release-life-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/sharon-luk-book-release-life-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon Luk: Book Release for \u201cThe Life of Paper\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alder 111<br \/>\nAlder Building<br \/>\n15th &amp; Alder<\/p>\n<h3>The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity<\/h3>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/ethnic.uoregon.edu\/profile\/sluk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sharon Luk<\/a>, Assistant Professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Book Symposium with Discussants:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Professor Colleen Lye, UC Berkeley<\/li>\n<li>Professor Dan HoSang, Yale University<\/li>\n<li>Professor Michael Hames-Garcia, University of Oregon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/sharon-luk-book-release-life-paper\/sharon_luk\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28074\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28074\" src=\"http:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sharon_Luk-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sharon_Luk-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sharon_Luk-116x150.jpg 116w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sharon_Luk-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sharon_Luk-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sharon_Luk-560x725.jpg 560w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sharon_Luk-260x336.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sharon_Luk-160x207.jpg 160w, https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Sharon_Luk.jpg 1275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>The Life of Paper<\/em> offers a wholly original and inspiring analysis of how people facing systematic social dismantling have engaged letter correspondence to remake themselves\u2014from bodily integrity to subjectivity and collective and spiritual being. Exploring the evolution of racism and confinement in California history, this ambitious investigation disrupts common understandings of the early detention of Chinese migrants (1800s-920s), the internment of Japanese Americans (1930s-1940s), and the mass incarcerations of African Americans (1960s-present) in its meditation modern development and imprisonment as a way of life.<\/p>\n<p>Situating letters within global capitalist movements, racial logics, and overlapping modes of social control. Sharon Luk demonstrates how correspondence becomes a poetic act of reinvention and a way to live for those who are incarcerated.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies, the Center for the Study of Women in Society, and the Division of Equity and Inclusion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor\u2019s Note: Sharon Luk received a 2015-16 CSWS Faculty Research Grant in support of the research for this book.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alder 111 Alder Building 15th &amp; Alder The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity Author: Sharon Luk, Assistant Professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies A Book Symposium with Discussants: Professor Colleen Lye, UC Berkeley Professor&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/sharon-luk-book-release-life-paper\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":25307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,36,17,697],"tags":[56,641,721,720,158],"class_list":["post-28071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-events","category-faculty-affiliates","category-human-rights","tag-csws","tag-ethnic-studies","tag-life-of-paper","tag-sharon-luk","tag-uo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28071"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32866,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28071\/revisions\/32866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}