The Movies of Racial ChildhoodsIn The Movies of Racial Childhoods Celine Parreas Shimizu examines early twenty first century cinematic representations of Asian and Asian American children. Drawing on psychoanalysis and her own perspective as a mother grieving for a deceased child, Shimizu considers how cinema renders Asian American children through sexualized racial difference, infantilization, and premature adultification. She looks at how Asian American childhood is characterized