{"title":"Afro-Asian Intimacies Across Southern Cartographies: Race, Sex, and Gender in Toni Morrison's Home and Yusef Komunyakaa's Dien Cai Dao","authors":"Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi","doi":"10.1353/ams.2023.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2023.0004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80435,"journal":{"name":"American studies (Lawrence, Kan.)","volume":"61 1","pages":"120 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43165424","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":"Queering/Querying the Text in Patricia Powell's The Pagoda and Sui Sin Far's \"Jamaica Works\"","authors":"G. Anatol, J. Kim","doi":"10.1353/ams.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80435,"journal":{"name":"American studies (Lawrence, Kan.)","volume":"61 1","pages":"121 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46301793","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}
Across Global Souths: Asian Migrations through the U.S. South and the Circum-Caribbean investigates Asian/American cultures, politics, and relationships across multiple Souths, with an emphasis on the U.S. South and the Caribbean. Edward Said’s foundational Orientalism (1978) has been expanded and extrapolated to multiple frameworks that situate Asian peoples and populations in terms of the East versus the West; this concept continues to circulate in the United States, where “Asian America” is largely envisioned as only populating the East and West coasts. The Across Global Souths project reframes the conversation with an emphasis on journeys to and from multiple Souths. The guest editors consider the broader geopolitical designation of “South” in the United States, including Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, and the U.S. Gulf Coast as a region in and of itself. Asian Americans in Dixie provides a critical reference point, defining the South as “a region of the United States and a space connected to and part of other transnational spaces” (Joshi and Desai, 2013, 4). Grounded within recent scholarly developments in the field of American Studies, we have invited further reflections on the diasporic condition of the category “Asian,” as well as the diasporic condition of the category “Southerner,” simultane-ously challenging notions of an exclusively white, Euro-American U.S.
{"title":"Across Global Souths: Asian Migrations through the U.S. South and the Circum-Caribbean","authors":"J. Kim, G. Anatol","doi":"10.1353/ams.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Across Global Souths: Asian Migrations through the U.S. South and the Circum-Caribbean investigates Asian/American cultures, politics, and relationships across multiple Souths, with an emphasis on the U.S. South and the Caribbean. Edward Said’s foundational Orientalism (1978) has been expanded and extrapolated to multiple frameworks that situate Asian peoples and populations in terms of the East versus the West; this concept continues to circulate in the United States, where “Asian America” is largely envisioned as only populating the East and West coasts. The Across Global Souths project reframes the conversation with an emphasis on journeys to and from multiple Souths. The guest editors consider the broader geopolitical designation of “South” in the United States, including Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, and the U.S. Gulf Coast as a region in and of itself. Asian Americans in Dixie provides a critical reference point, defining the South as “a region of the United States and a space connected to and part of other transnational spaces” (Joshi and Desai, 2013, 4). Grounded within recent scholarly developments in the field of American Studies, we have invited further reflections on the diasporic condition of the category “Asian,” as well as the diasporic condition of the category “Southerner,” simultane-ously challenging notions of an exclusively white, Euro-American U.S.","PeriodicalId":80435,"journal":{"name":"American studies (Lawrence, Kan.)","volume":"61 1","pages":"17 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42686838","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}
In the wheelhouse, Papoose scans the two-way radio, and we overhear fishermen speaking Cajun English and French. We hear the twang of Texas oil workers heading out to offshore platforms and the exotic language of exiled Vietnamese shrimpers who’ve fished these waters since the 1975 fall of Saigon, drawn to America’s own elaborate version of the Mekong Delta. Completing the ethnic gumbo are French-speaking Houma Indians, driven by European settlers over the centuries to the farthest ends of the bayou country where they now survive as expert fishermen.1
{"title":"Lan Xang Village: Place-making in Louisiana's Iberia Parish","authors":"Davorn Sisavath","doi":"10.1353/ams.2023.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2023.0003","url":null,"abstract":"In the wheelhouse, Papoose scans the two-way radio, and we overhear fishermen speaking Cajun English and French. We hear the twang of Texas oil workers heading out to offshore platforms and the exotic language of exiled Vietnamese shrimpers who’ve fished these waters since the 1975 fall of Saigon, drawn to America’s own elaborate version of the Mekong Delta. Completing the ethnic gumbo are French-speaking Houma Indians, driven by European settlers over the centuries to the farthest ends of the bayou country where they now survive as expert fishermen.1","PeriodicalId":80435,"journal":{"name":"American studies (Lawrence, Kan.)","volume":"61 1","pages":"77 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47294753","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":"Producing Ayurveda: Authenticity and Race in the Beauty and Wellness Industries","authors":"Hareem Khan","doi":"10.1353/ams.2023.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2023.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80435,"journal":{"name":"American studies (Lawrence, Kan.)","volume":"61 1","pages":"19 - 41"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42176338","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":"Transpacific Exoticisms: Performing Asia Across the U.S. Southern Border","authors":"R. Sia","doi":"10.1353/ams.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80435,"journal":{"name":"American studies (Lawrence, Kan.)","volume":"61 1","pages":"151 - 173"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44362560","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 : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/ams.2023.a910888
Morten Hansen
{"title":"\"Follow the Scale of the Earth\": Robert Smithson and Globalization","authors":"Morten Hansen","doi":"10.1353/ams.2023.a910888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2023.a910888","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80435,"journal":{"name":"American studies (Lawrence, Kan.)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135533180","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 : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/ams.2023.a910901
{"title":"The Sense of Brown by Jose Esteban Muñoz (review)","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/ams.2023.a910901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ams.2023.a910901","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80435,"journal":{"name":"American studies (Lawrence, Kan.)","volume":"202 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135533174","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}