{"title":"Foundations and Futures: Imagining Asian American and Pacific Islander Studies in Every Home","authors":"T. Dang, Karen N. Umemoto, Kelly N. Fong","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901073","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article describes an effort to create an open-access, scholar-informed, teacher-tested online multimedia textbook for teachers, students, and lifelong learners in anticipation of a growing demand to learn about Asian American and Pacific Islanders. Informed by over fifty years of ethnic studies and urgent demands for open access educational resources, the development of an online multimedia textbook on Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences, entitled Foundations and Futures, represents a nationwide collaboration of scholars and teachers spearheaded by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center. The Vietnamese American chapter provides an example of collaboration between scholars, K–12 teachers, curriculum and media experts, designers and technologists.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"33 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":"114805924","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":"Rooted in the (Youth) Movement, Onward to Liberation: Toward Radical Definition and Demands for a Critical SWANA Studies","authors":"Sophia Armen","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901068","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article explores the ways in which racialization, movement, and knowledge creation are linked by tracing the recent history of the term \"SWANA\" its emergence under the mechanisms and policies of containment of the imperial university, and argues that intergenerational forums of co-thinking and co-organizing are needed as a future of a liberatory field can only be brought forth through radical collective knowledge production and action. It argues that not only does the academy have catching up to do, but that the debates, strategies, and formulations of race present in youth SWANA organizing has the potential to save and continue the radical heartbeat of Ethnic Studies as a liberatory project rooted in histories and demands specifically of students of color, in present-day and past.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"5 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":"134344110","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":"\"I Am Asian\": Kurdish Diasporas, Interconnected Racial Geographies, and Asian America","authors":"S. Thangaraj","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901065","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Kurdish communities are often imagined through Area Studies frameworks and their Western colonial afterlives that refuse a fuller engagement with forms of self-identification. In this poem, I bring together ethnographic data and the voices of my Kurdish interlocutors in Nashville, TN; New York City, NY; Connecticut; Rhode Island; New Jersey; and Massachusetts to imagine and reimagine South West Asia and North Africa as part of Asian American Studies. Through this poem, I foreground the ways that Kurdish diasporas refuse colonial, imperial, and academic racial geographies and offer their own geographies that illuminate their self-identification as Asian and the various intimacies and connections they have with Asia, Asian America and communities of color.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"142 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":"123195360","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}
Emy Chen, Edward R. Curammeng, Matthew Laurel, Katie Yue-Sum Li, Mohit P. Mehta, Aileen Pagtakhan, Jocyl Sacramento, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales
{"title":"K–12 Asian American Studies as Praxis: Insights from Asian American Teachers","authors":"Emy Chen, Edward R. Curammeng, Matthew Laurel, Katie Yue-Sum Li, Mohit P. Mehta, Aileen Pagtakhan, Jocyl Sacramento, Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901075","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article is an edited transcription of a conversation among Asian American teachers. The virtual conversation took place on October 28, 2022 with several educators from California, Texas, and Massachusetts and led by Asian American youth activist in Texas, Emy Chen. The teachers included Aileen Pagtakhan, middle school English language arts, history, and yearbook teacher in Union City, California; Katie Yue-Sum Li, former English as a second language and humanities teacher and currently an Ethnic Studies instructional coach for Boston Public Schools; Matthew Laurel, English and Asian American literature high school teacher in Berkeley, California; and Mohit Mehta, Asian American history and bilingual education teacher and doctoral candidate in Texas. As special forum organizers, we wanted to learn from and with teachers whose experiences were informed by Asian American Studies (AAS).","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"26 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":"128707400","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":"Arab American Curriculumwork","authors":"Beshara Kehdi","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901067","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article reflects on an Arab American Studies in the K-12 Classroom Teacher Institute held in the Summer of 2022. It situates the California institute in relation to ethnic studies and anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian racism. Arab American Curriculumwork is the framework used by the author to describe a \"process of culturally and community responsive curricular co-creation\" that was envisioned, in which teachers and community stakeholders meet, study, reflect, collaborate and work together to produce anti-racist and anti-colonial school curricula. It is an ethnic studies approach that acknowledges the unique challenges and forms of exclusion Arab American and SWANA communities face.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"53 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":"117228572","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":"Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam by Thy Phu (review)","authors":"Kodai Abe","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901078","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"21 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":"116632490","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":"Palestine is Ethnic Studies: The Struggle for Arab American Studies in K–12 Ethnic Studies Curriculum","authors":"Lara Kiswani, Nadine Naber, S. Shoman","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.a901070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.a901070","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Ethnic Studies pedagogy is anchored in critically analyzing global white supremacy, US imperialism, and colonialism, which includes what happened to and continues in the Arab world. Given that most Arab countries are in Asia and the similarities and connections across \"Arab\" and \"Asian\" experiences, the field of Arab American studies found an early home within Asian American studies programs and academic journals. This article explores the emergence of Arab American studies from decades of research and teaching about the global scope of anti-Arab/anti-Muslim racism and transnational Arab and Arab American resistance to US empire.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"39 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":"115703740","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":"L. Park, Diane C. Fujino","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"1 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":"129610998","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":"Asian American Studies and LGBTQ Studies: Horizons of Intersectional Alliances","authors":"Martin F. Manalansan","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This essay is a brief reflection on the rich intersectional history of Asian American Studies and LGBTQ studies through an autoethnographic account. It focuses on the emergence of productive conjunctions between the two fields as framed by my own career trajectory in academia and community activism. I want to note that this is not an ego-boosting attempt to locate myself as an exemplary case, but I will unabashedly admit that I was a fortunate witness to and an avid participant in the provenance of the continuing fruitful alliances between the two fields. I map these historical and theoretical meeting points as products of historical and biographical encounters and conditions. I believe the “state” of the fields should not be considered as a description of a present condition but rather, as critical assessment of a process, a persistent unfolding, and a continuous voyage of several communities of scholars. At the heart of this essay is not just a story or a history but rather a reflection on enduring questions that have propelled this intellectual crossroad. I offer an invitation or provocation to scholars to take risks, and to listen more closely and sensitively to the evolving world and to lives on the ground. The “roots” of this intersectional history of the two fields are a product of sensitive, activist, and community responses to problems on existing social injustices. As I will point out later, there is a danger in the institutionalization and official recognition of the works coming out of these conjoined fields, especially around the initial impulse for such collaborations which was taking responsibility to engage with ever-increasing and continuing crises of racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and extreme economic disparities. At","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"1 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":"123862717","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":"The Privacy of Hak-Shing William Tam: Imagining Asian American Families in Proposition 8 in California","authors":"J. Tse","doi":"10.1353/jaas.2023.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2023.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In terms of Asian Americans whose reputations have been popularly derided, the concerned parent activist Hak-Shing William Tam perhaps ranks among the top. Tam was a citizen proponent of California's Proposition 8 in 2008 to amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage and became a hostile witness for the plaintiffs in the subsequent 2010 lawsuit to overturn the amendment, Perry v. Schwarzenegger. In this paper, I explore Tam's claim to privacy in his understanding of these events, both in terms of his sexualized imagination of liberal civil society and his suffering from what he understood as violations of his own privacy. I argue that Tam tried to operationalize an understanding of society that idealized the \"Asian family\" as the bulwark of an order composed primarily of secure private spaces, which speaks (I further claim) to longstanding anxieties within Chinese America about how what Gary Okihiro calls the \"social formation\"–an interlocking institutional network that composes a governing apparatus–subjects Asian Americans to ongoing colonization. In so doing, I hope to show that Tam's concerns do not only speak to concerns in Asian American studies about pervasive evangelical influence in Asian American communities. Instead, they reveal that Asian American conceptions of the private sphere are ideologies that circulate within our communities and should be taken seriously in Asian American studies.","PeriodicalId":125906,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Asian American Studies","volume":"26 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":"129932933","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}