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Lee, Suk-hee. “Shoyu Kid: Semiosis of Ethnicity and Sexuality.” Studies in English Languages & Literature. 39.4 (2013): 141-161. Ethnicity and sexuality are two most powerful signs for the white male-centered American nationalism to construct its logos and maintain the social hegemony. Thus they were very useful for the center while formidable as much for the other. Asian American literature has been in longtime efforts to demythify them as a fundamental sociocultural practice. Such efforts, however, resulted in an ironical reconfiguration of the white-dominated nationalism with some multiple ethnic centers in it. This paper starts with a doubt about cultural pluralism and assumes that Asian American texts did not go far enough to thoroughly demystify ethnicity and sexuality. To attain its small but safe territory in American nationalism they also employed the signs of ethnicity and sexuality. “Shoyu Kid” is a very unusual text in this aspect; it explores the constructiveness of these two signs until they ultimately expose their complete emptiness. Thus it turns out the most chilling story not just for the main stream but for the minority who persistently hung on the myth of ethnicity and sexuality to construct its own center. (Silla University)