The paper explores the alienation of Asian American identity, focusing on the disjunction between the racialized “yellow skin” and the subjectivity it contains. The skin acts as both a host and boundary, inviting external influences while marking the subject as Asian. This dynamic, described as both parasitic and symbiotic, is illustrated in Kogonada’s After Yang through the character Yang, an AI with Asian features. Yang’s transformation from a physical robot into a virtual being symbolizes the evolving, mutable nature of racialized identity, resisting fixed categorizations. The analysis moves beyond traditional views of Asian American identity, instead examining the material, ontological, and affective dimensions of its posthuman potential. Drawing on new materialist perspectives, After Yang envisions Asian American identity as fluid and future-oriented, shaped by history but capable of transcending boundaries to foster greater interconnectedness and inclusivity in a posthuman context.