AMERASIA JOURNALPub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.1976025
Thúy Võ Đặng, Thao Ha, T. Nguyen
{"title":"Conflict and Care: Vietnamese American Women and the Dynamics of Social Justice Work","authors":"Thúy Võ Đặng, Thao Ha, T. Nguyen","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2021.1976025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2021.1976025","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This collection of essays explores the experiences of Vietnamese American women scholar-activists navigating the complexities of antiracist work within the Vietnamese American community. Each essay discusses the gendered and generational disciplining faced by the authors while doing social justice work and reflects on the choices they made in response. Attentive to the historical forces that have shaped the Vietnamese American community, the authors advocate for building bridges and fostering spaces of compassionate and radical care.","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"120 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47486002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AMERASIA JOURNALPub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.1991750
Yazan Zahzah
{"title":"Warcare Economies: San Diego, Refugees, and Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)","authors":"Yazan Zahzah","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2021.1991750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2021.1991750","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay utilizes a transnational framework to introduce the concept of warcare, which I define as the co-constitutive relationship between humanitarian work and counterinsurgency, by exploring the enactment of Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) counterinsurgency in San Diego as an extension of the U.S. War on Terror. I identify the rhetoric put forth by CVE programming and examine the material impact its programming has on refugees in the U.S. as well as communities in countries militarized by the United States. In doing so, I analyze the symbiotic relationship between militarization, displacement, and humanitarian work.","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"35 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45993372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AMERASIA JOURNALPub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.1994281
L. Sharif
{"title":"Afterwards and Other Non-Endings: Palestine, Afghanistan, and the Afterlives of War","authors":"L. Sharif","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2021.1994281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2021.1994281","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A feminist refugee epistemology is about naming the affective and material nonendings and afterlives of colonial and imperial violence on refugee terms, as well as foregrounding the polylithic subjectivities that constitute “refugee.” Composed at the heels of war’s declared ending and during a global pandemic, I discuss a feminist collaboration with Dr. Yến Lê Espiritu and artwork by Mary Hazboun. I then discuss the nonendings and afterlives of the War on Terror, ending with a reflection on the importance of Palestine and Indigenous epistemologies in the study of displacement, and the U.S. academy’s response to the 2021 Gaza massacre.","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"47 1","pages":"164 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45316056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AMERASIA JOURNALPub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.1930809
Kelly N. Fong, E. Izumi, Angel Trazo
{"title":"Pandemic Pedagogy: Lessons Learned Teaching Asian American Studies in Spring 2020","authors":"Kelly N. Fong, E. Izumi, Angel Trazo","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2021.1930809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2021.1930809","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay offers advice for building a student-oriented pandemic pedagogy adapted for remote learning that draws from instructor and teaching assistant experiences from teaching a large lecture class at UCLA in spring 2020. We suggest strategies for a student-oriented virtual classroom that fosters engagement through relatability, accessibility, and compassion. In particular, we offer an ethnic studies pandemic pedagogy that centers taking care of your students and yourself in a historic moment of uncertainty and anxiety spurred by the pandemic, growing anti-Asian racism, and the movement for Black lives.","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"46 1","pages":"297 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00447471.2021.1930809","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41579777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AMERASIA JOURNALPub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2020.1931765
S. Chiang, Grace Lee, Renee Tajima-Peña, Jun Okada
{"title":"A Self-Defining Series: A Forum on the PBS’s Asian Americans","authors":"S. Chiang, Grace Lee, Renee Tajima-Peña, Jun Okada","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2020.1931765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2020.1931765","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This forum brings together three filmmakers responsible for creating the groundbreaking PBS documentary series, Asian Americans. S. Leo Chiang, Grace Lee, and Renee Tajima-Peña reflect on the making of the series and its impact.","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"46 1","pages":"315 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00447471.2020.1931765","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49269214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AMERASIA JOURNALPub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.1920292
C. A. Lee
{"title":"Evolving Activism in an Anti-Immigrant Administration: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Nonprofit Experiences after the 2016 Elections","authors":"C. A. Lee","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2021.1920292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2021.1920292","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI)-serving nonprofits were at the forefront of pro-immigrant advocacy during the Trump Administration in the midst of sudden changes in policy that caused extreme turmoil for AANHPIs. This study examines how these federal sociopolitical factors shaped nonprofit activism and finances for Los Angeles AANHPI organizations in 2017. Using interviews, I found that nonprofits could innovate in small ways to support AANHPIs, but were also limited in their advocacy because of funding and political constraints. These findings demonstrate the challenges and persistence required for AANHPI activism in a xenophobic and restrictive landscape.","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"46 1","pages":"346 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00447471.2021.1920292","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48361372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AMERASIA JOURNALPub Date : 2020-09-01DOI: 10.1080/00447471.2021.1923352
Karín Aguilar‐San Juan
{"title":"49 Days of Mourning for George Floyd: An Asian American Re-awakening in St. Paul","authors":"Karín Aguilar‐San Juan","doi":"10.1080/00447471.2021.1923352","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2021.1923352","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Referring to the Vietnam antiwar movement has become a way to dodge the complexity and confusion of the post-1975 Asian American experience. To build Afro-Asian solidarity in the era of Black Lives Matter, there must be an honest and direct engagement with the various Southeast Asian American communities for whom the generational impacts of displacement, exile, trauma, and loss are far from fully recognized or processed. This essay reflects on the Asian American activism in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder, tying together Minnesota’s racialized history with contemporary Buddhist-led social justice work in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.","PeriodicalId":44285,"journal":{"name":"AMERASIA JOURNAL","volume":"46 1","pages":"287 - 296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00447471.2021.1923352","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49145773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}