Abstract:This article considers the social and political activism of Protestant Christians in and adjacent to the Asian American Movement (AAM) of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Drawing on oral history interviews and archives, it uses Asian American Christian Theologies and Strategies (ACTS) based in Berkeley, California, and Agape Fellowship, a Christian commune in Los Angeles, to consider how Asian American Christians integrated their religious and racial identities and fused their faith with their social activism. Many saw ameliorating societal injustice as a duty of their Christian faith. Applying a religious lens to what is often seen as a strictly secular movement, this piece illuminates how Christians contributed to Asian American radical activism, community service and development, and the early formation of Asian American Studies as a field. Neither ACTS nor Agape escaped the patriarchy and sexism that plagued the larger AAM and other movements of the time, reaffirming the importance of gender analysis in these histories.
{"title":"The Asian American Movement and the Church","authors":"Jane H. Hong","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2022.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2022.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article considers the social and political activism of Protestant Christians in and adjacent to the Asian American Movement (AAM) of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Drawing on oral history interviews and archives, it uses Asian American Christian Theologies and Strategies (ACTS) based in Berkeley, California, and Agape Fellowship, a Christian commune in Los Angeles, to consider how Asian American Christians integrated their religious and racial identities and fused their faith with their social activism. Many saw ameliorating societal injustice as a duty of their Christian faith. Applying a religious lens to what is often seen as a strictly secular movement, this piece illuminates how Christians contributed to Asian American radical activism, community service and development, and the early formation of Asian American Studies as a field. Neither ACTS nor Agape escaped the patriarchy and sexism that plagued the larger AAM and other movements of the time, reaffirming the importance of gender analysis in these histories.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"14 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":"127034999","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":"Sweat and Salt Water: Selected Works by Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa (review)","authors":"J. Ong","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2022.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2022.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"4 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":"124538147","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":"Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho (review)","authors":"Sunhay You","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2022.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2022.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"15 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":"126123401","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":"Reflections on Solidarity","authors":"K. Masaoka","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2022.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2022.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"23 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":"121843946","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:Why do so many Korean American women recall being told as young girls that had they not been adopted, they would have grown up to be prostitutes—just like their mothers? This essay addresses that troubling question by reorienting our understanding of the history of international adoption from South Korea. It centers the camptown—recreational spaces around US bases infamous for military prostitution—and the mixed-race children who constituted the vast majority of those sent abroad in the program's initial years, to help explain how adoptee bodies have been coded in the American psyche ever since.
{"title":"The Camptown Origins of International Adoption and the Hypersexualization of Korean Children","authors":"Yuri Doolan","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2021.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2021.0032","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Why do so many Korean American women recall being told as young girls that had they not been adopted, they would have grown up to be prostitutes—just like their mothers? This essay addresses that troubling question by reorienting our understanding of the history of international adoption from South Korea. It centers the camptown—recreational spaces around US bases infamous for military prostitution—and the mixed-race children who constituted the vast majority of those sent abroad in the program's initial years, to help explain how adoptee bodies have been coded in the American psyche ever since.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130586445","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":"Oceanic Archives, Indigenous Epistemologies, and Transpacific American Studies ed. by Yuan Shu et al. (review)","authors":"Yiwen Liu","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2021.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2021.0040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131107429","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":"Love Boat: Taiwan dir. by Valerie Soe (review)","authors":"Mila Zuo","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2021.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2021.0037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128873696","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 analyzes "comfort women" novels by the Korean American authors Therese Park, Nora Okja Keller, and Chang-rae Lee in terms of the ethics and aesthetics of representing sexual violence through language. I specifically look at these authors' stylistic strategies to describe rape in writing and how they (more or less successfully) avoid voyeuristic portrayals of the "comfort women" by controlling the narrative point of view and relying on traumatic "speechlessness" and abjection. Building on relevant notions from the fields of photography, cinematography, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, this analysis suggests that in-progress representations of rape in language become a futile project if the intention is to avoid ethically problematic images. Rather than reobjectify the "comfort women" depicted, the three writers under analysis find creative ways to occlude potentially exploitative accounts of sexual violence and bring prominence to their stories.
{"title":"Writing Unspeakable Things: Speechlessness, Abjection, and the Ethics/Aesthetics of (Not) Representing Sexual Violence in Three Korean American \"Comfort Women\" Novels","authors":"Laura Barberán Reinares","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2021.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2021.0033","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article analyzes \"comfort women\" novels by the Korean American authors Therese Park, Nora Okja Keller, and Chang-rae Lee in terms of the ethics and aesthetics of representing sexual violence through language. I specifically look at these authors' stylistic strategies to describe rape in writing and how they (more or less successfully) avoid voyeuristic portrayals of the \"comfort women\" by controlling the narrative point of view and relying on traumatic \"speechlessness\" and abjection. Building on relevant notions from the fields of photography, cinematography, philosophy, and psychoanalysis, this analysis suggests that in-progress representations of rape in language become a futile project if the intention is to avoid ethically problematic images. Rather than reobjectify the \"comfort women\" depicted, the three writers under analysis find creative ways to occlude potentially exploitative accounts of sexual violence and bring prominence to their stories.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127201979","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 Peculiar Afterlife of Slavery: The Chinese Worker and the Minstrel Form by Caroline H. Yang (review)","authors":"Klara Loc-Ling Boger","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2021.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2021.0039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130950233","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:By bracketing whiteness, Avatar: The Last Airbender reorients us to how global colonial modernity produces biopolitical difference as a technology of management to defamiliarize Asian and Indigenous relationalities. Approaching it as a site of alternative contact, I consider Lisa Lowe's intimacies of colonial comparative processes in apposition with insurgent counter-intimacies. This essay traces portrayals of Asian imperialism, colonialism, and Asian diasporic settler colonialism in tandem with comparative Indigeneities and decolonial solidarity. ATLA engages Asianness and Indigeneity together in a mode that is relational but not statically schematic, extending influential work by scholars thinking across Indigenous, Asian, and Asian diasporic studies.
{"title":"Arctic and Asian Indigeneities, Asian/North American Settler/Colonialism: Animating Intimacies and Counter-Intimacies in Avatar: The Last Airbender","authors":"Xine Yao","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2021.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2021.0036","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:By bracketing whiteness, Avatar: The Last Airbender reorients us to how global colonial modernity produces biopolitical difference as a technology of management to defamiliarize Asian and Indigenous relationalities. Approaching it as a site of alternative contact, I consider Lisa Lowe's intimacies of colonial comparative processes in apposition with insurgent counter-intimacies. This essay traces portrayals of Asian imperialism, colonialism, and Asian diasporic settler colonialism in tandem with comparative Indigeneities and decolonial solidarity. ATLA engages Asianness and Indigeneity together in a mode that is relational but not statically schematic, extending influential work by scholars thinking across Indigenous, Asian, and Asian diasporic studies.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"49 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115875332","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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