Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2108561
C. Peralta
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.2107389
R. Leong, David K. Yoo, Keith L. Camacho
— Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience (Routledge edition based on a special 1994 issue of Amerasia Journal
-《亚裔美国人的性行为:男女同性恋经历的维度》(劳特利奇版,根据《美亚杂志》1994年特刊改编)
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.2106114
Mitsuye Yamada, Nellie Wong
Mitsuye May Yamada is an acclaimed poet, essayist, educator, feminist, and human rights activist. Yamada was one of the first and most vocal of Asian American women writers who wrote about the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans. She is the author of Camp Notes and Other Poems (1976) and Desert Run: Poems and Stories (1988), both of which are available in the combined volume, Camp Notes and Other Writings (1998). At age 96, she released Full Circle: New and Selected Poems (2019). With a lifelong commitment to fighting for human rights, Yamada served on the Amnesty International USA National Board of Directors. She is featured in the documentary Mitsuye and Nellie: Asian American Poets (1981). Most recently, her life is depicted in the political biography Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake (2020) by Diane C. Fujino.
山田光也是一位著名的诗人、散文家、教育家、女权主义者和人权活动家。山田是最早也是最直言不讳的亚裔女作家之一,她写的是战时日裔美国人被监禁的故事。她著有《营地笔记和其他诗歌》(1976年)和《沙漠奔跑:诗歌与故事》(1988年),这两本书都在合集《营地笔记与其他作品》(1998年)中。96岁时,她发行了《完整的圆圈:新诗选》(2019)。山田一生致力于为人权而战,曾在大赦国际美国全国董事会任职。她出现在纪录片《Mitsuye and Nellie:亚裔美国诗人》(1981)中。最近,Diane C.Fujino的政治传记《Nisei Radicals:the Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake》(2020)描绘了她的生活。
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2090823
Ida Yalzadeh
ABSTRACT Since 9/11, Iranian Americans have challenged their racialization as troublesome terrorists through cultural productions that emphasize how they belong in a multicultural America. In this paper, I argue that these Iranian Americans perform “Persian/American exceptionalism,” a representational strategy that embraces capitalist conspicuous consumption and touts universalist notions of freedom. In so doing, they attempt to erase post-revolutionary Iran and its association with political Islam from the U.S. imaginary as part of an effort to distance themselves from two major flashpoints in U.S.-Middle Eastern history – the Iran Hostage Crisis and September 11th.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2083934
Andrew Cheng
ABSTRACT This paper examines how young Korean Americans conceive of the relationship between their ethnic identity and linguistic behavior, focusing on metalinguistic commentary given on the topic of Korean American English (KAE). I argue that the ongoing enregisterment of a unique KAE variety is characterized by the fact that Korean Americans disagree on both what this variety sounds like and where the variety is spoken or where it comes from. Yet, a majority still contend that KAE exists. I connect this paradox to the historical struggle that Korean Americans have over language ownership and hybrid cultural identity.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-02DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2109401
A. Sohail
Sohail presents an exhibition-project that focuses on how to gently unpack an empire, which brought in conversation three artists in the US. A selection of works by Los Angeles-based Vinhay Keo and Portland-based Demian DineYazhi' were exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Center at the University of California, Irvine in April 2021. Los Angeles-based Gelare Khosligozaran displayed a new video work, Memories of Loitering (2021), online. Responding to the pandemic, this exhibition focused on multiple ways of engagement.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2037989
Michael R. Jin
ABSTRACT This essay explores the historical erasures of Korean and U.S.-born Japanese American (Nisei) survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing. Since 1945, the Korean survivors of Hiroshima have struggled for redress as South Korea has remained a crucial part of the U.S. Cold War nuclear umbrella. As American civilians, the Nisei atomic bomb survivors have also found themselves unrecognized by their country as victims of the U.S. nuclear violence. The struggles of Korean and Nisei A-bomb survivors for historical recognition reveal the colonial, racial, and state violence that remain unredressed in the U.S. “empire for liberty” well into the twenty-first century.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2038506
Davorn Sisavath
ABSTRACT This essay focuses on cluster bombs and war metals, and links militarism, war, and violence to how people continue to experience the legacies of the Cold War. I ask the following questions: How might the collateralization and legacy of military violence serve to illuminate a dimension of the Cold War as ongoing? What does it mean to engage with the Cold War and the different forms of entanglements and violence that persist in the present? By examining cluster bombs and war metals, I argue these material objects make visible the militarized context of America’s ongoing presence in Laos.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2022.2038043
Emily Hue
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Pub Date : 2021-05-04DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.2021775
Keva X. Bui
ABSTRACT This article examines napalm as an epistemology of U.S militarism, developing the framework of “objects of warfare” to describe political relations intertwined with racialized personhood and militarized objecthood. The first half traces the racial logics of infrastructural warfare in the Vietnam War, while the second situates the construction of Asian racial form via liberal humanism within cultural representations of napalm in the war’s afterlives. By examining the interrelatedness of napalm’s physical violence and its political effects, this article suggests objects of warfare offer a framework to trace links between militarized objecthood and the lingering specters of Cold War liberalism and imperialism.
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