{"title":"Wednesday, January 6, 2021","authors":"Ron Scapp","doi":"10.1525/esr.2021.44.1.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2021.44.1.18","url":null,"abstract":"A commentary on the recent assault on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, in which the author situates the attack in the longer history of white supremacy, Christian nationalism, patriarchy, and unfettered capitalism.","PeriodicalId":220759,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic Studies Review","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133371127","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}
Kristian E. Vasquez, Juan De Dios Pacheco Marcial, Karla Larrañaga, Verónica Mandujano
{"title":"A Love Letter to Chicanx Studies","authors":"Kristian E. Vasquez, Juan De Dios Pacheco Marcial, Karla Larrañaga, Verónica Mandujano","doi":"10.1525/esr.2021.44.3.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2021.44.3.49","url":null,"abstract":"The authors share their joint “love letter” to the field of Chicanx Studies, originally presented during the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS) conference on April 14, 2021. This collection reflects on the successes, promise, and still deferred promise of a fully realized Chicanx Studies. They focus on the value of a graduate program and training in Chicanx Studies, the need for their work to be engaged in community struggle, the potentials of increased numbers of Chicanx Studies trained scholars, and their personal connections and challenges as graduate students of this field.","PeriodicalId":220759,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic Studies Review","volume":"115 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133684700","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":"Diasporic Performativity in the Practice of Karaoke","authors":"Luis Pascasio","doi":"10.1525/esr.2021.44.3.88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2021.44.3.88","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores how karaoke serves as a spatializing practice for Filipino Americans in Chicago from which a new poetics of diaspora life is performed. Space, as argued by Lefebvre, is essentially empty but becomes occupied through visual cues animated by the gestures and actions of those who inhabit it. The spatializing potential of karaoke places everyday life as a site of discourse where music and childhood memories serve not only as objects of the past but also as cultural imaginaries that live and breathe in the present. Drawing from interviews of and engaging in participant observation with Filipino Americans in Chicago from various occupational backgrounds, this study argues that karaoke as a cultural practice is informed by a logic of diasporic performativity that locates active engagement with media as an expression of human agency. The spaces of interaction that it creates embody a reconstruction of home, identity, and community, the discursive potential of which can be as political as it is poetic. Through karaoke, perceived dichotomies between performer and spectator, immigrant and American-born, homeland and hostland are untangled creating social and emotional bonds that offer possibilities of social critique.","PeriodicalId":220759,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic Studies Review","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123499644","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}
C. L. Sy, A. Ho, Niara Johnson, Joshua Leonard, Amanda Lopez, Bridge Squitire
{"title":"Why Bother with Asian American Studies? Reflections on a Documentary Research Project","authors":"C. L. Sy, A. Ho, Niara Johnson, Joshua Leonard, Amanda Lopez, Bridge Squitire","doi":"10.1525/esr.2022.45.1.69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2022.45.1.69","url":null,"abstract":"This document catalogs the reflections of a team of students and one faculty member who researched the history of demands for an Asian American Studies program at Brooklyn College. The authors explain their initial interests in the Asian American Studies Program project, describe their learning process as well as the research methods used. They discuss how their commitment to the project transformed during the research process, as well as their reactions to the final documentary video product, Why Is There No Asian American Studies Program at Brooklyn College.","PeriodicalId":220759,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic Studies Review","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114266018","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":"It’s Not You, Nor Me…It’s All of Us or None of Us","authors":"Roberto D. Hernández","doi":"10.1525/esr.2021.44.3.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2021.44.3.58","url":null,"abstract":"Hernández, as the current chair of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), reflects on the “Love Letter to Chicanx Studies.” The author affirms observances within the “letter,” including its considerations of the future of the field, and suggests that we enhance intergenerational knowledge sharing. Hernández presents a provocation on the ultimate goal of liberation as it relates to training and privileging scholars trained in Chicana/o/x Studies, and asks us to think more deeply about how we “do” the work and serve our communities. Finally, he asks that we recover our “Third world” subjectivities and reaffirm our commitment to struggles for shared liberation.","PeriodicalId":220759,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic Studies Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134166081","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":"On Brown Blood","authors":"Arjun Shankar","doi":"10.1525/esr.2023.46.1-2.135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2023.46.1-2.135","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses the conceptual space of “brown blood” to analyze United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind at the intersection of race and caste. The racial politics of blood has been somewhat submerged in the ongoing discussions of racism and racialization, which have been dominated by the representational politics of skin color. However, the Thind case, as I argue, hinges on an understanding of racial blood politics that intersected with casteist discourses that were also emerging globally. On the one hand, brown blood represents the romantic ideas associating brownness with assimilation. This dimension of brown blood allowed for the ascendance and mobility of savarna Indians in the late twentieth century. At the same time, the Thind case hinged upon the racialization of caste in India’s late-nineteenth-century colonial-caste society. I show how caste-as-blood set in motion new migratory patterns and mobility regimes for perceived dominant caste peoples, which, ultimately, initiated further accumulationist possibilities. My analysis serves to illustrate the complex interactions of race and caste in current global geopolitics, an understanding that is especially important as more and more dominant caste Hindus have intimate relations with and power within the United States.","PeriodicalId":220759,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic Studies Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134153853","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 a Product of Ethnic Studies","authors":"Robert Liu-Trujillo","doi":"10.1525/esr.2021.44.2.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2021.44.2.101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":220759,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic Studies Review","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114936852","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":"MAST Teach-In Pamphlet (2021)","authors":"","doi":"10.1525/esr.2022.45.1.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/esr.2022.45.1.59","url":null,"abstract":"This document is a copy of the program used by Mobilizing Asian Students Together, a coalition of student organizations and individuals at Duke University, to promote a teach-in aimed at calling for the establishment of Ethnic Studies programs and the enhancement of campus cultural centers. It lists eleven scheduled speakers who presented their arguments for the creation of Ethnic Studies and Asian American Studies departments and support of cultural centers like the Center for Multicultural Affairs. The teach-in was held in the Bryan Center Plaza on September 24, 2021, and was also livestreamed for online participation.","PeriodicalId":220759,"journal":{"name":"Ethnic Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116129890","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}