ED91b: Week 6 CURRENT ISSUES + INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF AsAm STUDIES + IDENTITY FORMATION by Anna Chaewon 채원

1. Everyone read: Schlund–Vials, Cathy. “Crisis, Conundrum, and Critique.” Flashpoints for Asian American Studies. Ed. Cathy Schlund–Vials. 2017.

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-06 16:34:39 UTC

INSTRUCTIONS: Follow the arrows around the Padlet and complete each step. To navigate, scroll up, down, left, and right :)

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-06 16:37:49 UTC

Some GUIDING QUESTIONS to keep in mind:

What are the flashpoint issues and crises of Asian America today?
How can Asian American Studies help us navigate these issues? Should it?
How do we position APIA studies within the larger context of contemporary justice movements/projects?

Viewing: Anti-Asian Violence and Black-Asian Solidarity Today” with Tamara K. Nopper

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-06 16:38:57 UTC

“A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia” by David Eng and Shinhee Han (AASN)

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-06 17:07:04 UTC

“Situating Asian Americans in the Political Discourse on Affirmative Action” (AASN)

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-06 17:07:24 UTC

In this essay they argue that Asian Americans are basically being used by the right to support their agenda with regards to affirmative action because it's convenient, not because the right actually cares about Asian Americans—I see parallels to the Peter Liang case. Where were the white people calling for their murderers to receive the same justice Liang did? It's a very obvious double standard.

However, in general I felt like this essay didn't say anything new about affirmative action and Asian Americans that I didn't already know—the general argument was that we need to move beyond the black/white binary when it comes to thinking about Asians and affirmative action and develop a new framework that acknowledges the nuances in the Asian American community and what we want.

“Home is Where the Han Is: A Korean American Perspective on the Los Angeles Upheavals” (AASN)

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-06 17:08:29 UTC

"Han is a Korean word that means, loosely translated, the sorrow and anger that grow from the accumulated experiences of oppression. Although the word is frequently and commonly used by Koreans, the condition it describes is taken quite seriously. When people die of han, it is called dying of hwabyong, a disease of frustration and rage following misfortune."

“Youth Culture, Citizenship, and Globalization: South Asian Muslim Youth in the United States after Septemer 11th” (AASN)

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-06 17:09:06 UTC

Lowe, Lisa. “Canon, Institutionalization, Identity: Asian American Studies,” Immigrant Acts. (tripod)

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-06 17:10:24 UTC

dense but sharp insight into the tension between interdisciplinary fields and the university, the problem of canonizing an "Asian American Literature," and ultimately the purpose of interdisciplinary fields like Ethnic Studies

i took notes and annotated excerpts here

3. Complete your chosen additional reading/viewing.

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-06 17:25:06 UTC

if you haven't yet, sign up for a reading on this week's doc

4. Edit the relevant post on your reading/viewing

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-06 19:13:22 UTC

Connect it to the guiding questions, highlight key points, share favorite quotes, make connections, link additional resources related to your reading + this week's topic. Play around with Padlet; there's lots of cool things you can do! The goal is to have everyone take away something from each reading, even the ones they didn't read. <-- you can also record a video essay instead if you don't want to write

6. Read everyone else's posts and comments.

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-06 19:13:50 UTC

Check back later for new posts and comments!

5. Comment on at least TWO (2) other posts before 4pm on Sun 3/13.

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-06 19:13:53 UTC

Your comment can be a question, affirmation, connection, etc.

2. Everyone watch:

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-06 21:26:09 UTC

Make sure you read Schlund-Vials first for context!

7. share a fun post (music, memes, tiktok, etc.). connect it with an arrow to this post <- if u can figure that out lol

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-06 22:07:54 UTC

READING POSTS

2022-03-06 22:13:59 UTC

follow the arrows below to interact with each reading

quote

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-11 16:08:58 UTC

"These bipartisan invocations of the mid-century civil rights movements and the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin (a veritable touchstone in Asian American studies), as specifically deployed in pro-Liang campaigns, renders discernible the extent to which Asian America-- as imagined political enclave and conflicted community formation-- is more often than not precariously complicit vis-a-vis contemporary debates concerning rights, race, and racism." (9)

basis, key points, questions/reflection

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-12 17:52:59 UTC

First Writing Since (Poem on Crisis of Terror) by Suheir Hammad

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-12 18:27:02 UTC

The Citizen and the Terrorist by Leti Volpp

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-12 18:27:37 UTC

Some thoughts

2022-03-13 16:17:33 UTC

Narratives of Asian American politics > what narratives do we have? What narratives do we tell?

while we think of the Chinese exclusion act or World War II a lot, the stories from the 80’s and 90’s (like Vincent Chin) are some of the most immediate narratives and (therefore have the potential of?) galvanizing our political organizing
reminds me of the Omatsu article about how we need to listen to our elders’ stories (and how the act of telling a story also requires listening)

What does it mean to protect ourselves? And protect ourselves in a non-carceral way?

One way is to hold a company responsible for giving people like marky mark a platform

Demand to call something a hate crime means a lot - is it racist? Will it be charged?

have you killed some one and was their racial motivation behind it?
Difference between Federal hate crime laws and state hate crime laws
Hate crimes as a way for police to “build trust” in communities > propaganda
What does it mean for the term “hate” to encompass all these instances? And how is it being used to mobilize “tougher” hate crime laws?
Institutionalization of study of hate (reminds me of the article we read for this week about the institutionalization of Asian American studies and whether this is a good thing or not)
The hashtag stop Asian hate has helped mobilize the call for tougher legislation and encompasses a very very wide range of Asian American grievances
Police forces in fact benefit from a depiction of a crime wave

Us saying we’ve been too silent for too long or invisible is an underhanded way of saying black people are getting too much attention > how do we situate ourselves?

important to remember in situating ourselves: “Shared experiences in the realm of the social do not necessarily index shared positions in the realm of the structural”

xyang210_1 — 2022-03-13 18:21:52 UTC

song i wanted to share for our last meeting but we didn't have time!

remembering saigu (a history final project)

cjeong11_1 — 2022-03-13 19:30:53 UTC

Turning Red Cooking Animation

nicolekim4 — 2022-03-18 01:06:16 UTC

Haven't seen the movie yet but seeing the animation in this TikTok made me smile!! For those who watched it, let me know how it was!

L.A. Dispatch to Washington re: L.A. Riots

nicolekim4 — 2022-03-18 01:15:00 UTC

Interesting (read: pretty terrible in content) transcript of an L.A. dispatch created by the British Consulate. Particularly, that it denies the race relations/ effect of white supremacy to the event itself. Interesting how there is no mention about Asian Americans here, or in the next document with a PSA from the British Embassy.