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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2026): Special Section: Racial matters of Asian/America

Cover image: Candice Lin, On the Back of Syphilis Mountain Candelilla Grows, 2019. Candelilla wax, beeswax, red clay, cement, paint, grow lights, oil barrel, stagnant water, dried and living candelilla plants. Courtesy of the artist, Ballroom Marfa, and François Ghebaly. Commissioned by Ballroom Marfa.

Published: 2026-03-10

Racial Matters of Asian/America

Cover Art Catalyst March 2026 issue - installation artwork of bright pink sculpted hands melting into a magenta background

Cover Art

Artist Statement: On the Back of Syphilis Mountain Candelila Grows, 2019

Candice Lin
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Introduction

Racial Matters of Asian/America: Form, Infrastructure, Environment, and Incommensurability

Keva X. Bui, Natalia Duong
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What's Racial About Matter?

A Conversation on Race and “New” Materialism Past, Present, and Future

Keva X Bui, Natalia Duong, Aimee Bahng, Mel Y. Chen, Michelle N. Huang, Rachel C. Lee
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Sensing Asian/American Matter

A Conversation with Candice Lin

Heidi Amin-Hong, Candice Lin
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Remaking Porcelain

Toward the Techniques of Asian Americanist New Materialisms

S.Y. Tang
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Yellow Matter

Asian/American Beyond Man

Chad Shomura
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After Hybridity

The Biological Life of the Mixed Race Child

Maile Aihua Young
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Constructing and Performing Domesticity

Materiality of Gujarati Women’s Technical Labor in the United States Post-1965

Kinjal Dave
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“I was a free and independent worker”

Keypunch Operating as Mind-Numbing Refuge for Korean-Canadian Immigrant Women

Saemi Nadine Jung, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
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Racial Atmospherics

Greenhouses, Terrariums, and Empire’s Pneumatics

Irene Kim
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Glass Skin

Luminosity, Repair, and Transpacific Ecologies of Beauty and War

Claire Chun
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Race Graft

Decolonial Relations in Hương Ngô’s French Indochina and Beyond

Justin Phan
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they could have left the bones to the sea

Kerry McInerney
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Original Research

Disrupting the Whitened Lemur

Reading Black Trans* Considerations in Feminist Primatology

Quinn Georgic
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"Good Tech" and Technologies of Elite Capture

Juana Catalina Becerra, Felicia Jing
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Climate Activists and the Politics of Making Kin Not Babies

Alexandra Lakind
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Humility as Antidote

Mitigating the US Technolibertarian Cybernetic Influences on Data Science and AI with Cyberfeminism

Annabel Rothschild, Carl DiSalvo, Betsy DiSalvo
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Our Kinships with the Constellations

Land Relations in the Atmosphere and the Consequences of Lithium-Mediated Internet Access

Andrew Wiebe
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Co-Scribing Machines

A More-than-Human Take on Robotics

Hannah Link
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Book Reviews

Book Review | Making the Human: Race, Allegory, and Asian Americans, by Corinne Mitsuye Sugino (Rutgers University Press, 2024)

Tandee Wang
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Book Review | Plastic Matter, by Heather Davis (Duke University Press, 2022)

Josh Lepawsky
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Book Review | The Cybernetic Border: Drones, Technology and Intrusion, by Iván Chaar López (Duke University Press, 2024)

Michelle Pfeifer
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Book Review | A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Future, by J. Mijin Cha (MIT Press, 2024)

Jason Vu
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Book Review | Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert, by Sunaura Taylor (University of California Press, 2024)

Lois Nguyen
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Book Review | Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century, by Hannah Zeavin (MIT Press, 2025)

Daisy Couture
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Book Review | Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India by Hemangini Gupta (California University Press, 2025)

Kavita Dattani
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