![]() I explore the limits and possibilities of comedy for disrupting neoliberal maternal discourse by examining Ali Wong’s Baby Cobra and Hard Knock Wife. Yet this latest twenty-first-century incarnation of model minority discourse can be distinguished by the way it has been mobilized to discipline not only nonwhite populations but also a foundering white majority. The “tiger mother,” as popularized by Amy Chua, can be considered a recent gendered, racial formation produced in direct opposition to the “Black welfare mother” as a figure of pathological reproductive excess and dependency. This essay grapples with how Asian American women have been increasingly positioned as the idealized maternal subjects of a neoliberal world order. ![]()
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