That is Not the Way to Do It Queerness, Race, and Citizenship in Rodgers and Hammerstein

This article examines the ways in which Rodgers and Hammerstein\u27s Asia-Pacific musicals - South Pacific, The King And I, and Flower Drum Song - mark characters of color with signs of queerness. It argues that Asian and Pacific characters are placed outside Cold War era ideals of American white heter-normativity in their performances of gender, their marriage practices, and the queer spaces they occupy, in ways that both encourage assimilation and make integration impossible