ABSTRACT:This paper analyzes the US internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans, Indigenous peoples, and prisoners of war across Hawai‘i, the Marshall Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands during World War II. Decentering the focus on Japanese American internment as a domestic project of racialized exclusion, it analyzes internment as embedded in a transnational project of US settler militarism. Internment and prisoner of war camps utilized varying logics of racialized military detention, Indigenous displacement, and liberal governance in order to rationalize the evacuation and internment of Asian and Indigenous peoples from lands that the US military wished to use as bases, battlegrounds, and bomb testing areas.
{"title":"Settler-Military Camps: Internment and Prisoner of War Camps across the Pacific Islands during World War II","authors":"Juliet Nebolon","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2021.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2021.0025","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper analyzes the US internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans, Indigenous peoples, and prisoners of war across Hawai‘i, the Marshall Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands during World War II. Decentering the focus on Japanese American internment as a domestic project of racialized exclusion, it analyzes internment as embedded in a transnational project of US settler militarism. Internment and prisoner of war camps utilized varying logics of racialized military detention, Indigenous displacement, and liberal governance in order to rationalize the evacuation and internment of Asian and Indigenous peoples from lands that the US military wished to use as bases, battlegrounds, and bomb testing areas.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123323769","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}
{"title":"Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai’i and Oceania by Maile Arvin (review)","authors":"Xin Yao","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2021.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2021.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129610662","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}
ABSTRACT:This essay reckons with the relationship between Filipinx diaspora and settler colonialism by analyzing the ways that Miguel Syjuco’s novel Ilustrado (2010) aligns queerness with indigeneity. Filipino diasporic fiction and Filipino American studies scholarship have both critiqued the limitations of supposing a racial homogeneity in the construction of “Filipino America.” Queer diasporas critique has similarly affirmed the heterogeneity and multiple affinities that inform diasporic subjectivity. This article explores the ways that Filipinx diaspora is shaped by US settler coloniality and upon return to the “homeland” intensifies extant settler logics in the Philippine archipelago. In doing so, it argues that the straightness of the homeland and the diaspora can potentially collude in a homophobic settler logic that discards queer indigeneity in order to construct the diaspora as a space of literary freedom. Ilustrado curiously centers the “ilustrado,” a mixed-race, even hybrid, subject, around which a unified Filipino national consciousness subscribes to a homogeneity that necessarily reduces the nation. Even so, Syjuco’s novel allows for productive questioning around the relationship between queerness, settler colonialism, and diaspora. Ultimately, this article suggests that the field of Filipinx American studies is in a unique position to pay critical heed to the queer life of settler coloniality in the diaspora and at “home.”
{"title":"Filipinx Critique at the Crossroads of Queer Diasporas and Settler Sexuality in Miguel Syjuco’s Ilustrado","authors":"Sony Coráñez Bolton","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2021.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2021.0022","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay reckons with the relationship between Filipinx diaspora and settler colonialism by analyzing the ways that Miguel Syjuco’s novel Ilustrado (2010) aligns queerness with indigeneity. Filipino diasporic fiction and Filipino American studies scholarship have both critiqued the limitations of supposing a racial homogeneity in the construction of “Filipino America.” Queer diasporas critique has similarly affirmed the heterogeneity and multiple affinities that inform diasporic subjectivity. This article explores the ways that Filipinx diaspora is shaped by US settler coloniality and upon return to the “homeland” intensifies extant settler logics in the Philippine archipelago. In doing so, it argues that the straightness of the homeland and the diaspora can potentially collude in a homophobic settler logic that discards queer indigeneity in order to construct the diaspora as a space of literary freedom. Ilustrado curiously centers the “ilustrado,” a mixed-race, even hybrid, subject, around which a unified Filipino national consciousness subscribes to a homogeneity that necessarily reduces the nation. Even so, Syjuco’s novel allows for productive questioning around the relationship between queerness, settler colonialism, and diaspora. Ultimately, this article suggests that the field of Filipinx American studies is in a unique position to pay critical heed to the queer life of settler coloniality in the diaspora and at “home.”","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128287688","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}
ABSTRACT:This essay follows artist Crystal Z. Campbell and her excavation into our collective will to forget specifically through her work on Henrietta Lacks’s immortal cell line and her participation in the Filipino American Artist Directory. In particular, this essay examines what Campbell’s work brings to bear on Black and Filipinx American relationalities through an enactment of the illegible. Arguing that Filipinx America is rendered illegible through the contradictions inherent in imperial and (neo)liberal knowledge production, this essay is interested in the ways that Campbell troubles notions of “identity” and reveals its limitations as a way to understand Filipinx American being. Given Campbell’s interest in archival research, including what gets left out, obscured, or fictionalized in the archive, this essay reads the indexing of Campbell’s work in the Filipino American Artist Directory, a space that relies on the cohering logics of identity, as a strategic move that comments on the intimacies between imperial violence, (neo)liberalism, and anti-Blackness. Ultimately, Campbell’s participation in this archive gestures towards the radical possibilities and relationalities that Filipinx America can enact by embracing illegibility.
{"title":"Illegible Imperatives: Filipinx American Identity, Anti-Blackness, and the Artwork of Crystal Z. Campbell","authors":"Alana J. Bock","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2021.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2021.0023","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay follows artist Crystal Z. Campbell and her excavation into our collective will to forget specifically through her work on Henrietta Lacks’s immortal cell line and her participation in the Filipino American Artist Directory. In particular, this essay examines what Campbell’s work brings to bear on Black and Filipinx American relationalities through an enactment of the illegible. Arguing that Filipinx America is rendered illegible through the contradictions inherent in imperial and (neo)liberal knowledge production, this essay is interested in the ways that Campbell troubles notions of “identity” and reveals its limitations as a way to understand Filipinx American being. Given Campbell’s interest in archival research, including what gets left out, obscured, or fictionalized in the archive, this essay reads the indexing of Campbell’s work in the Filipino American Artist Directory, a space that relies on the cohering logics of identity, as a strategic move that comments on the intimacies between imperial violence, (neo)liberalism, and anti-Blackness. Ultimately, Campbell’s participation in this archive gestures towards the radical possibilities and relationalities that Filipinx America can enact by embracing illegibility.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128331292","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}
{"title":"Traffic in Asian Women by Laura Hyun Yi Kang (review)","authors":"Kodai Abe","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2021.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2021.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128942278","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}
{"title":"The United States of India: Anticolonial Literature and Transnational Refraction by Manan Desai (review)","authors":"Kay Sohini","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2021.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2021.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131558883","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}
{"title":"The Preferred Terms Are Mine","authors":"Gowri Koneswaran","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2021.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2021.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128277183","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}
{"title":"A Nation on the Line: Call Centers as Postcolonial Predicaments in the Philippines by Jan M. Padios (review)","authors":"Alden Sajor Marte-Wood","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"219 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133711503","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}
{"title":"A Letter to a Thousand Other Mothers","authors":"Mashuq Mushtaq Deen","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2021.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2021.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"582 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123167525","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}
ABSTRACT:Intervening in the Black/white (and largely male) racial paradigm of sports studies scholarship, this article details how an annual flag football tournament became a crucible of competition between white and Asian American college-aged women. I analyze how white women perceived Asian American flag football players as incapable of athletic excellence. Proving that they belonged as athletic equals, Asian Americans did not take these slights lightly as they subsequently dominated their white counterparts by defeating them four years in a row. Drawing from seven in-depth interviews with second-generation Asian American women, I examine how their participation in flag football challenged dominant discourses of Asian American female exoticness and Geisha Girl stereotypes while also providing an alternative space for them perform female masculinity. Mundane arenas like flag football spaces, I argue, become critical arenas to investigate how Asian American athletes negotiated meanings of race, class, gender, sexuality, and belonging in relation to white women and the institution of whiteness.
{"title":"\"We're just as good and even better than you\": Asian American Female Flag Footballers and the Racial Politics of Competition","authors":"Constancio R. Arnaldo","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Intervening in the Black/white (and largely male) racial paradigm of sports studies scholarship, this article details how an annual flag football tournament became a crucible of competition between white and Asian American college-aged women. I analyze how white women perceived Asian American flag football players as incapable of athletic excellence. Proving that they belonged as athletic equals, Asian Americans did not take these slights lightly as they subsequently dominated their white counterparts by defeating them four years in a row. Drawing from seven in-depth interviews with second-generation Asian American women, I examine how their participation in flag football challenged dominant discourses of Asian American female exoticness and Geisha Girl stereotypes while also providing an alternative space for them perform female masculinity. Mundane arenas like flag football spaces, I argue, become critical arenas to investigate how Asian American athletes negotiated meanings of race, class, gender, sexuality, and belonging in relation to white women and the institution of whiteness.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124544936","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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