We write this essay keeping in mind the students of South Asian descent who have passed through our courses in Asian American studies. With a couple of decades of teaching experience between us collectively, time and again we have heard South Asian students in our classrooms feel unsure of their place within the broader paradigms of Asian American studies. While the two of us have taught at different institutions, we have encountered South Asian American students of various class backgrounds. A critical mass of those students come from working class or poor backgrounds, but the majority come from middle class or affluent families. This is not surprising. It is no secret that Indian Americans in particular have some of the highest levels of educational attainment and incomes in the country, and over half of Pakistani American adults have a bachelor’s degree, as of 2015. 1 We have observed that most South Asian American students, regardless of class background, believe that their educational achievements within the space of the university will transform into enough economic and cultural capital to stave off the stigma of race. Often when South Asian American students encounter our introductory Asian American studies courses, they wonder if they can even lay claim to the racial category of Asian American—a question often compounded for them as they learn about the activist origins of the field. We begin our essay purposefully within a site of class privilege: the university classroom. We expand upon our students’ honest reckoning with privilege and ask how South Asian American studies and Asian American studies more generally might develop if we were to openly confront and centralize how is-308
{"title":"12 The Privilege of South Asian American Studies","authors":"Tamara Bhalla, Pawan H. Dhingra","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"We write this essay keeping in mind the students of South Asian descent who have passed through our courses in Asian American studies. With a couple of decades of teaching experience between us collectively, time and again we have heard South Asian students in our classrooms feel unsure of their place within the broader paradigms of Asian American studies. While the two of us have taught at different institutions, we have encountered South Asian American students of various class backgrounds. A critical mass of those students come from working class or poor backgrounds, but the majority come from middle class or affluent families. This is not surprising. It is no secret that Indian Americans in particular have some of the highest levels of educational attainment and incomes in the country, and over half of Pakistani American adults have a bachelor’s degree, as of 2015. 1 We have observed that most South Asian American students, regardless of class background, believe that their educational achievements within the space of the university will transform into enough economic and cultural capital to stave off the stigma of race. Often when South Asian American students encounter our introductory Asian American studies courses, they wonder if they can even lay claim to the racial category of Asian American—a question often compounded for them as they learn about the activist origins of the field. We begin our essay purposefully within a site of class privilege: the university classroom. We expand upon our students’ honest reckoning with privilege and ask how South Asian American studies and Asian American studies more generally might develop if we were to openly confront and centralize how is-308","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131487751","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":"11 Ambivalent Contingency and Queer Exuberance; Or, My Five Years on the Market","authors":"Douglas S. Ishii","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2022.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2022.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"155 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122590544","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":"15 Getting Over Ourselves","authors":"Mimi Nguyen","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2022.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2022.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123779978","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":"5 AAAS Forty Years On: The Boycott, Internationalism, and West Asian American Critique","authors":"Sunaina Maira","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132832340","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 article explores the linkages between queerness, racialization, activism, and community care in the South Asian diaspora. It examines activism, organizing, and social movement work practiced by queer diasporic South Asians in the UK and the United States. By analyzing the South Asian activist relationship to, and solidarity and partnership with, Black liberation activism, this article conceptualizes a framing of queer South Asian diasporic solidarity. This solidarity is framed through contrasting articulations of joint struggle, allyship, and kinship in queer communities. To articulate this struggle, the article contrasts histories of South Asian racialization, politicization, and queerness in the UK and the United States, and synthesizes first-person activist accounts of modern-day queer South Asian activists in the diaspora. Finally, it argues that queer feminist South Asian activists in both countries are employing a model of queered solidarity with Black activists and Black liberation, though in differing forms in each country, that centers queer intimacies and anti-patriarchal modes of organizing for liberation across queer communities of color.
{"title":"Queering Diasporic Desi Solidarity: South Asian Activism in US and UK Multiracial Social Movements","authors":"M. Bhardwaj","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2022.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2022.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores the linkages between queerness, racialization, activism, and community care in the South Asian diaspora. It examines activism, organizing, and social movement work practiced by queer diasporic South Asians in the UK and the United States. By analyzing the South Asian activist relationship to, and solidarity and partnership with, Black liberation activism, this article conceptualizes a framing of queer South Asian diasporic solidarity. This solidarity is framed through contrasting articulations of joint struggle, allyship, and kinship in queer communities. To articulate this struggle, the article contrasts histories of South Asian racialization, politicization, and queerness in the UK and the United States, and synthesizes first-person activist accounts of modern-day queer South Asian activists in the diaspora. Finally, it argues that queer feminist South Asian activists in both countries are employing a model of queered solidarity with Black activists and Black liberation, though in differing forms in each country, that centers queer intimacies and anti-patriarchal modes of organizing for liberation across queer communities of color.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127006763","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 paper embraces the Asian (as) robot in a cluster of Asian American texts: Margaret Rhee’s Love, Robot (2017), Greg Pak’s Robot Stories (2003), and Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea (2014). Taking cues from work in queer inhumanisms, it explores what happens when Asians “turn away from the demand for full humanity” (Luciano and Chen) and instead intentionally conflate ourselves with non-human objects. What new notions of race can emerge, and what new notions of human emerge? By engaging with such questions, this paper provides a critical intervention into techno-Orientalist discourse that often focuses on the dehumanization of Asian bodies subjugated as robots and other machines. Techno-Orientalist critique is limited, I contend, when it assumes to resuscitate a universalized notion of the human as the pinnacle of recognition and agency. Counterintuitively perhaps, I embrace the Asian (as) robot in order to enable other understandings of race when it is not tethered to human embodiment
摘要:本文将亚洲(作为)机器人纳入一组亚裔美国文本:Margaret Rhee的《Love, robot》(2017)、Greg Pak的《robot Stories》(2003)和Chang-rae Lee的《On Such a Full Sea》(2014)。从酷儿非人道主义的作品中得到启发，它探索了当亚洲人“放弃对完整人性的需求”(卢西亚诺和陈)，而是故意将自己与非人类物体混为一谈时，会发生什么。什么新的种族观念会出现，什么新的人类观念会出现?通过参与这些问题，本文提供了对技术东方主义话语的批判性干预，这些话语通常侧重于作为机器人和其他机器被征服的亚洲身体的非人化。我认为，技术东方主义的批判是有限的，当它假定将人类作为认知和能动性的顶峰的普遍化概念复兴时。也许与直觉相反，我接受亚洲人(作为)机器人，是为了在它不受人类化身束缚的情况下，使其他对种族的理解成为可能
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Abstract:This article traces Dictée’s divergent Korean and American receptions to argue that Asian American studies’ critique of US empire has been limited by its reliance on the linguistic capital of the English language in establishing its disciplinary identity. The author historicizes the field’s anglophone bias and offers new close-readings of Dictée, its Korean translation, Korean scholarship, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s older brother John Cha’s memoir Farewell, Theresa, which has only been published in Korean translation, illuminating the possibilities that emerge when multilingual reading is treated not as an area studies tool for making legible a foreign site of inquiry but rather centered as essential to Asian Americanist critique.
摘要:本文追溯了dicdisame在韩国和美国的不同接受，认为亚裔美国人研究对美帝国的批判受到其在建立学科认同时对英语语言资本的依赖的限制。作者将该领域的英语偏见历史化，并提供了新的近距离阅读dictsame，其韩文翻译，韩国学术，以及Theresa Hak Kyung Cha的哥哥John Cha的回忆录《Farewell, Theresa》，该书仅以韩文翻译出版，阐明了当多语言阅读不被视为一种区域研究工具，以使外国调查场所清晰可辨，而是以亚洲美国人批判为中心时出现的可能性。
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{"title":"In Memoriam: Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask","authors":"Candace Fujikane","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2022.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2022.0010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124051881","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":"Framed by War: Korean Children and Women at the Crossroads of US Empire by Susie Woo (review)","authors":"Mi-Hee Bae","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2022.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2022.0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114301750","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":"Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam by Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu (review)","authors":"Shani Tra, Sunshine Blanco","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2022.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2022.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133423197","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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