what is your takeaway from chapter 3 by Lisa Lowe? by Thanh Huyen Hoang https://padlet.com/hth2712/jx1v4zcj2rixcazj en-us 2022-03-02 03:02:47 UTC 2022-03-02 04:20:47 UTC hello@padlet.com Room 3 https://padlet.com/hth2712/jx1v4zcj2rixcazj/wish/2072738018 - Heterogeneity: Lowe argues that the Asian American community is not a homogeneous community with a fixed identity like what the white Americans view of them, but instead, they are heterogeneous and diverse in terms of gender, class, ethnic origin, generation, etc...
- Hybridity: In order to survive in the dominance of white American culture, the Asian American community have to adapt --> hybrid
- Multiplicity: Asian American is constituted and influenced by many different factors?

"Identity in the making" = the making of Chinese American culture is worked out as much "horizontally" as it is transmitted "vertically". Rather than considering "Asian American identity" as fixed, the production of identity from Asian American cultural practices is never complete and are always constituted in relation to historical and material differences. 

Asian American culture fixes Asian American identity and suppresses differences ---> underestimates differences among Asians, and supports the racist discourse that Asians as a homogenous group

]]> 2022-03-02 03:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hth2712/jx1v4zcj2rixcazj/wish/2072738018 Room 2 https://padlet.com/hth2712/jx1v4zcj2rixcazj/wish/2072738929 The question of the loss or transmission of the ‘‘original’’ culture is frequently represented in a family narrative.

‘Asian America’’ is clearly a heterogeneous entity

heterogeneity, hybridity, and multiplicity in the characterization of Asian American culture as part of a twofold argument about cultural politics

the master narrative of Asian American culture is essentialist and homogenizing

The Chinese American identity is considered as fixed, established given VS. "American culture practices" that produce identity are constituted in relation to historical and material differences. Undergo transformation, subject to continuous 'play' of history, culture, and power.

Heterogeneity: differences of Asian national origin, of relation to immigrant exclusion law, of class backgrounds in Asian economic conditions, and of gender.
Hybridity: not suggest the assimilation to dominant practices, but the story of survival within relationships of unequal power and domination






]]> 2022-03-02 03:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hth2712/jx1v4zcj2rixcazj/wish/2072738929 Room 4 https://padlet.com/hth2712/jx1v4zcj2rixcazj/wish/2072739782 She defines 
- Heterogeneity as the pluralism within the group of ‘Asian Americans' 
 => diversification within a particular category.
- Hybridity as cultural intermixing due to (often involuntary) histories
 => adaptation and adjustment within the group to resist the dominance of white culture
- Multiplicity as the positioning of each individual along multiple axes of power
- Asian American discourse
- The formation of Asian American culture can be a less stable process than the vertical transmission of culture among generations.]]> 2022-03-02 03:12:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hth2712/jx1v4zcj2rixcazj/wish/2072739782 Room 1 https://padlet.com/hth2712/jx1v4zcj2rixcazj/wish/2072741832 Both poems emphasize diaspora problems:
  • Loss of culture of origin
  • Inter-generational misunderstanding
  • Westernization

Many Asians immigrate and relocate to the USA in terms of a loss “original” culture in exchange for a new American culture

The disruption and distortion of traditional clutural practies 
  • the practice of parental sacrifice and filial duty 
  • the practice of respecting hierarchies of age 
  • consequence of displacement to the United States
  • a part of entering society with different class stratifications
  • different constructions of gender roles


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