Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2023.a913084
Rae Ke'ala Kuruhara
Abstract:More than any other of the bodily senses, Native Hawaiians rely on scent to navigate the world around us: it is the form through which we understand the language of the land and by extension, one another. It is the means through which we maintain memories and preserve stories, tucked away between the blossoms of fragrant flowers and billowing from plumes of volcanic sulfur and steam. How do we share these stories in a way more aligned with the worldview of our ancestors while still utilizing the power and pervasiveness of contemporary media? How do we confront the historiographical challenges of reproducing these storytelling landscapes radically altered by settler colonialism, including the loss of language and environmental destruction? My paper, "He Inoa 'Ala: Scent, Memory, and Identity in Indigenous Comics," is a graphic essay that explores the potential sensory aesthetics has in developing a uniquely Native Hawaiian approach to creating comics and graphic novels. Through real-time trial and error, this paper is an active series of experimentations to discover where the visual and pictorial language of comics and the layered storytelling experiences of Hawaiian mo'olelo–place-based storied histories–productively meld together and strengthen the formal qualities of one another. Spiraling through historical analysis of colonial deodorization in the form of the 19th century sandalwood trade and weaving in and out of personal narrative, "He Inoa 'Ala" is my attempt to push the boundaries of both cartooning and scholarly writing, all in the effort to discover creative methods that can be used to illustrate an entirely new genre of Indigenous graphic literature.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2023.a913085
Nozomi (Nakaganeku) Saito
Abstract:This essay examines the racial logics of antiblackness and Indigenous dispossession that subtend U.S. policies and discourses of development of Micronesia throughout the Cold War. These racial logics attribute the manufactured dependence in Micronesia to racial and biological primitivism and mask the true roots of social ills as the displacements and environmental destruction produced by U.S. and European settler colonialisms, militarisms, and developmental policies. I suggest that an engagement of Asian American and Black Pacific studies offers a starting point for disentangling the racial logics of settler security and its environmental impact. Through close readings of poems from Teresia Teaiwa's Searching for Nei Nim'anoa and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner's Iep Jāltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter, I argue that both Micronesian writers turn to poetry to counter the racial logics of dominant discourses. They show instead the ecological aftermaths of Indigenous dispossession and antiblackness and the consequences that bear out in deferred sovereignty and increased vulnerability to climate change. More than reactive, however, Teaiwa and Jetñil-Kijiner also offer generative conceptions that affirm the vitality of Indigenous knowledges from which they articulate other possible futurities for the Pacific.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2023.a913088
Stephanie Sang
{"title":"Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor by Allan Punzalan Isaac (review)","authors":"Stephanie Sang","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a913088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a913088","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"430 - 432"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139327220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2023.a913089
James Carl Lagman Osorio
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2023.a913086
Heidi Amin-Hong
Abstract:In a moment of rising East Asian global tourism and heightened anti-Asian violence in public space, what does it mean for Asian bodies to see and be seen in the outdoors? Analyzing Dinh Q. Le's daguerreotypes of Yosemite alongside C. Pam Zhang's novel How Much of These Hills is Gold, this article traces an emerging archive of contemporary Asian American literature and visual art that imagines Asian American entanglements with the fraught settler racial histories of US national parks. The article outlines decomposition as a reading practice to propose new ways to read Asian American presence in the environment that do not rely on the recovery or reenactment of settler mythologies of vacant land. Rather, I posit an Asian Americanist ecological approach that turns toward the materialist histories of more-than-human landscapes to reckon with the charged presence of Asian Americans in unceded Native lands. Ultimately, this article illuminates understandings of Asian American relationships to land that further attend to the obscured militarized and settler colonial conditions shaping these environmental relations.
摘要:在东亚全球旅游业兴起和公共空间反亚洲暴力加剧的时刻，亚洲人在户外观看和被观看意味着什么？本文分析了Dinh Q. Le的优胜美地达盖尔原型和C. Pam Zhang的小说《How Much of These Hills is Gold》，追溯了当代亚裔美国人文学和视觉艺术的新兴档案，想象了亚裔美国人与美国国家公园充满争议的定居者种族历史之间的纠葛。文章概述了分解作为一种阅读实践，提出了阅读亚裔美国人在环境中存在的新方法，这种方法并不依赖于恢复或重演关于空地的定居者神话。相反，我提出了一种亚裔美国人主义生态学方法，转向超人类景观的唯物主义历史，以探讨亚裔美国人在未受保护的原住民土地上的重要存在。最终，本文阐明了对亚裔美国人与土地关系的理解，进一步关注了形成这些环境关系的被掩盖的军事化和殖民定居条件。
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2023.a913087
Takeo Rivera
{"title":"Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities by erin Khuê Ninh (review)","authors":"Takeo Rivera","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a913087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a913087","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"427 - 429"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139325529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2023.a913082
Keva X. Bui
Abstract:This article examines scientific, environmentalist, and aesthetic responses to the deployment of herbicidal chemicals across agricultural capitalism domestically in the United States and military intervention in Southeast Asia. Herbicides are weed killers, and by analyzing the social construction of the "weed" as politically expendable life across racialized, capitalist, ableist, and militarized geographies, this article situates the history of herbicidal warfare within a discourse of eugenics. Eugenics, as a politically inflected science of preserving valued life at the expense of devalued life, provides an important optic for understanding how militarized necropolitics consign different forms of human and nonhuman life as disposable in the pursuit of Cold War securitization. Bringing together disability studies and environmental justice critique to think about these racial logics of herbicidal warfare, this article develops a framework of eugenic ecologies in order to consider the herbicide as a racializing technology that shapes the contours of human and plant life as intertwined targets of the imperial war machine.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2023.a913083
Emily Hue
Abstract:This essay explores designer JR Lee's "mushroom death suit" and filmmaker Grace Lee's short film "Suiting Dennis" as part of a subcultural movement amongst environmental activists, sustainable designers, and public health advocates to create public awareness of alternative green choices to Western burial practices. In the urgency to leave a lighter carbon footprint on the planet—not just in life, but in death—what role do non-Western epistemologies and Asian Americanist critiques of postmortem enlightenment play in contemporary movements to "green" death?
{"title":"To Infinity and Beyond: Life and Death Matters in Asian Americanist Art Critique and Jae Rhim Lee's Mushroom Burial Suit","authors":"Emily Hue","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a913083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a913083","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay explores designer JR Lee's \"mushroom death suit\" and filmmaker Grace Lee's short film \"Suiting Dennis\" as part of a subcultural movement amongst environmental activists, sustainable designers, and public health advocates to create public awareness of alternative green choices to Western burial practices. In the urgency to leave a lighter carbon footprint on the planet—not just in life, but in death—what role do non-Western epistemologies and Asian Americanist critiques of postmortem enlightenment play in contemporary movements to \"green\" death?","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"155 1","pages":"339 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139327016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2023.a901071
Giselle Cunanan, Artnelson Concordia, T. Jaco
Abstract:The article addresses the struggle to institutionalize K–12 ethnic studies, ethnic studies' co-optation by the California Department of Education, and the shape of a conservative right-wing backlash. We situate the collective grassroots efforts of the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium as a national movement. We show how practitioners struggle to transform schools in the face of hegemonic power and argue that ethnic studies must always speak truth to power and cannot be reduced to multiculturalism. We hope that this knowledge supports efforts across the United States as we share what is at stake for ethnic studies.
{"title":"Ethnic Studies as Social Movement: Resistance in the Face of Public Reaction","authors":"Giselle Cunanan, Artnelson Concordia, T. Jaco","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901071","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The article addresses the struggle to institutionalize K–12 ethnic studies, ethnic studies' co-optation by the California Department of Education, and the shape of a conservative right-wing backlash. We situate the collective grassroots efforts of the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium as a national movement. We show how practitioners struggle to transform schools in the face of hegemonic power and argue that ethnic studies must always speak truth to power and cannot be reduced to multiculturalism. We hope that this knowledge supports efforts across the United States as we share what is at stake for ethnic studies.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114946748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2023.a901069
Jocyl Sacramento, Edward R. Curammeng, Ray San Diego, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales
{"title":"Toward a Radical Asian American Studies Pedagogy","authors":"Jocyl Sacramento, Edward R. Curammeng, Ray San Diego, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"2003 15","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132678326","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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