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{"title":"Thinking SWANA from the -stans: Armenia and Spivak's Other Asias","authors":"T. Dolan","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901062","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In response to a question posed by David Kazanjian and Anahid Kassabian: \"Why is there no Armenian postcolonialism?\" Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak began research that would become \"1994: Will Postcolonialism Travel.\" This article is at the center of the 2008 edited volume Other Asias, which proposes an epistemic reimagining of continentality, race, religion, nationalism, diaspora and empire. Nearly twenty years later, however, Armenians remained especially fraught subjects in the 2020 California Ethnic Studies Model curriculum. Sketching a personal account of curricular debates alongside Spivak's call to theorize \"Other Asias,\" this essay asks, Why is there no Armenian in Ethnic Studies?","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"558 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126317988","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":"Affects of Solidarity: Remapping Asian America in Theory and Practice","authors":"M. Moradian","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901064","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay theorizes \"affects of solidarity\" as the basis for SWANA diasporic affiliations that trespass across national, ethnic and racial categories and the conventional borders of Asian American studies. Such affiliations contribute to the work of queering diaspora, making possible new orientations that defy the authenticity/assimilation binary. Japanese-American opposition to the targeting of Iranians during the 1979-1980 hostage crisis and the \"maximal inclusion\" practices that brought Arab, Iranian, and Afghan writers into the Asian American Writers Workshop in the post-9/11 period illustrate how affects of solidarity can remap the borders of Asia and the politics of Asian diasporic identity.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126475246","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":"Editors' Preface","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901060","url":null,"abstract":"Editors' Preface Diane C. Fujino and Lisa Sun-Hee Park In this issue, the Journal of Asian American Studies (JAAS) presents two exciting special forums. These are located in a new section of the journal that we initiated to affirm the importance of activist-scholarship and ethnic studies pedagogy in Asian American studies. The activist-scholarship and critical pedagogy call for papers seeks essays that offer \"new analytical interventions on the political, ethical, and/or practical issues in producing scholarship for social justice in Asian American studies\" or \"critically engage pedagogical concerns and/or provide innovative solutions\" that shape the field.1 The essays in these two special forums are intended as critical analysis linked to practice on the ground. The essays in both of these forums do a variety of work but are connected through critical reflections engaged with social movement activity. They are further designed as short essays, by contrast to the journal's research articles. In the first special forum, guest editors Sunaina Maira and Roozbeh Shirazi present the activist-scholarship special forum, \"Thinking SWANA in Asian American Studies.\" They are responding to the call by grassroots organizers to have the field of Asian American studies grapple with the category of SWANA or South-West Asian and North Africa. The field and indeed the journal have been involved in interrogating boundaries, whether the borders of nation-states or of disciplines, including our own, and exploring the various meanings this entails. The current essays build on earlier articles in JAAS, notably Sunaina Maira and Magid Shihade's essay in 2006, \"Meeting Asian/Arab American Studies: Thinking Race, Empire, and Zionism in the U.S.\" The current SWANA forum critiques the use of concepts that conceal the political and imperial usages, and yet also recognizes that any term or categorization contains limitations that will lead to different formulations in the future. So while SWANA is not one singular or static definition, and indeed no panacea, it is a term being called into being in this particular historical moment to wrestle with problems of empire, race, [End Page v] and subordination. The authors in this issue examine SWANA studies through the lens of Asian Americanist frameworks that critique imperialism, the global war on terror and anti-Muslim racism; that examine \"affects of solidarity\"; and that work in relationship to Armenian studies. The forum illuminates SWANA studies through poetic form. It offers curricular frameworks and pedagogical keywords for SWANA studies. And it explores definitional and praxis-based meanings of SWANA as political movement and identity. Sofia Armen offers a valuable insight: \"It is in the process of doing SWANA, that SWANA is and has been made and given meaning.\" It is this conjuncture between the university and movements, or rather the intersections of scholarly and organizing theorizing, that new frameworks for thinking ","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136281348","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":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901076","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"28 16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136281355","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":"Keywords as Frameworks for Liberatory Pedagogy and Praxis: Meeting SWANA and Asian American Studies","authors":"Ida Yalzadeh, Ryan Doan-Nguyen, Chloe Shawah, Maryam Tourk","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901066","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This piece theorizes the classroom as a site of activist scholarship through the pedagogical intervention of keywords. Written in collaboration between the instructor and students from a 2022 course called \"Meeting Asian/Arab American Studies,\" the contribution shows how particular keywords like \"exclusion,\" \"Orientalism,\" and \"refugee\" destabilize disciplinary boundaries and center SWANA diaspora studies within a curricular survey of Asian American Studies.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123282189","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":"An Asian American Studies Writing Pedagogy: Reformulating the Work of Writing in Asian American Studies Classes","authors":"K. Lee","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901074","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines how and why writing and writing pedagogy are essential to the political project of Asian American studies (AAS). Drawing on the principles of Ethnic Studies pedagogy and the original learning outcomes of the first AAS writing classes offered at UC Berkeley in 1971, this article offers three guiding principles for an AAS writing pedagogy that AAS instructors can use to integrate student-centered, transformative writing practices into their classrooms: writing to document students' evolving analysis of power and oppression, writing to build original lines of inquiry and analytical lenses, and writing to generate relevant and situated writing approaches that serve community needs.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126963930","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":"Whitewashing the Movies: Asian Erasure and White Subjectivity in U.S. Film Culture by David C. Oh (review)","authors":"Shawn M. Higgins","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901079","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901079","url":null,"abstract":"David C. Oh’s Whitewashing the Movies: Asian Erasure and White Subjectivity in U.S. Film Culture (2021) is an imaginative, paradigmatic examination of big-budget films from 2008–2018. Like studies by Arthur Berger, Robert G. Lee, Kent A. Ono, and Vincent N. Pham, Whitewashing the Movies tracks oppositions and meaning making in the casting choices for Asian, Indigenous Hawai’ian, and mixed-race characters. Provoked by intensified racial tensions post-2016, Oh’s work deconstructs racial oppression and privilege through an understanding of Whiteness (capitalized as “a particular discursive strategy that normalizes White racial hegemony”) and how it perpetuates Asian erasure in cinema (9). Inspired by Afrofuturism’s ethos of centering Black lives in narratives free from systemic oppression and by the Black Lives Matter movement’s call to value undervalued lives, Oh proposes we “imaginatively [correct] the representational problem of whitewashing” in cinema (20). Quite literally, the modals of possibility (can, could, may, might, would) permeate every chapter as Oh both invites readers and challenges industry to dream “what if?” This eagerness to consider different representational possibilities, Oh claims, helps bring Asian American studies “into the realm of scholarly imagination” (21). One of Oh’s stated goals is to add to what Brian Hu called a “relative dearth of literature about Asian American cinema since the early 2000s” (44). Building upon the scholarship of Richard Dyer and Gina Marchetti, Oh declares that Hollywood needs a “bold, ideological counterattack that says people of color can be anything” (158). The counterattack that Oh champions is different from simple colorblind casting in that it is strategic, purposeful, and corrective; casting Simu Liu as King Arthur would be a resistive and revolutionary move, not just a simple choice in which race were not considered.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122456570","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":"Growing Teacher Activists: Pin@y Educational Partnerships' Community ACTion Praxis","authors":"A. Daus-Magbual, R. Daus-Magbual, Lauren Arzaga Daus","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901072","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper analyzes case studies of Pin@y Educational Partnerships' (PEP) involvement in activism and organizing that fosters an intergenerational movement of radical teachers, scholars, leaders, and healers in creating Ethnic Studies curriculum and pedagogy while shaping policy and politics. PEP represents a community that draws inspiration and lineage from the 1968 Black Student Union/Third World Liberation Front (BSU/TWLF) at San Francisco State College (now known as San Francisco State University) in continuing the Ethnic Studies movement to serve our communities and transform our world. This paper introduces community ACTion praxis as a framework influenced by critical pedagogy, social movement theory, and the community action tenet of critical leadership praxis.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126708529","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":"Reorienting the Asian/American International","authors":"Soham Patel","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901063","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This forum essay provides insights into how SWANA studies and critical Muslim studies opens up the possibility to contend with and think through the global war on terror and anti-Muslim racism. I consider the question of Asian/American internationalism by exploring the complex racialization of Muslims and the histories of East Asian solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. In doing so, I not only expand the scope of Asian American studies and anti-Asian violence but also offer a critique vis-à-vis SWANA and the racialization of Muslims as a way to expand our field's historical and political commitments.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126170350","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":"Introduction: Thinking SWANA in Asian American Studies","authors":"Sunaina Maira, R. Shirazi","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901061","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This forum responds to the questions posed for the field of Asian American studies by the grassroots organizing around the category SWANA, or Southwest Asia and North Africa. The move to SWANA is significant for Asian American studies and presents questions for the field: What are the political contours of Asia and North Africa in SWANA? Is Asian American studies capacious enough to engage with SWANA diaspora studies? How has the field engaged with Southwest Asian/North African diasporas? Why are we seeing the (re) emergence of SWANA as a rubric in this particular historical moment in the academy and in social movements?","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126639950","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}