Abstract: My turn as JAAS editor beginning with this issue comes at a moment of great anxiety and uncertainty. As I’m writing this preface several months before its actual publication, we’ve been reeling from the nightmare that’s been unnecessarily placed upon many of our students due to the president’s rescission of the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program. We’re facing continuing battles over the management of the national debt ceiling, on how to get massive student loans out of default, on what to do with historical and current (as well as worldwide) manifestations of white supremacy and other kinds of hate-motivated violence, and on how to deal with dictators, oppressive regimes, and military ... Read More Keywords: Filipino Americans; United States; Philippines; Taiwanese Americans; Political participation; Vietnamese Americans; Anti-communist movements; Chinese American women; Women missionaries; Stews; Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean Americans PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: A 1976 special issue of the Philippine Quarterly commended the rapid development of Manila under Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos’s martial law regime. One article surmised: The modernization of Manila has been going on at such a fast pace that an absentee of only a few years can literally find himself lost on his return. Familiar landmarks no longer stand. New ones have taken their place. A bridge is where there was none before; a cluster of high-rise buildings where everybody can still remember was cogon land; a four-leaf clover connects a maze of new roads leading to everywhere.2 This message underscores the importance of the “absentee,” whose time spent away from Manila can be ... Read More Keywords: Filipino Americans; United States; Philippines; Taiwanese Americans; Political participation; Vietnamese Americans; Anti-communist movements; Chinese American women; Women missionaries; Stews; Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean Americans PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Who are (or can count as) Taiwanese Americans' To what extent and in what ways have members of this majority-immigrant community been able to participate in U.S. electoral politics' Although there has been a good amount of research and publications on Chinese Americans alone or within the context of Asian American studies, there has not been much research that treats the experiences of Taiwan Americans separately or as an integral but also distinct part of Chinese and Asian American experiences. The main purpose of this research is to begin unpacking the meanings of being Chinese in Chinese and Asian American studies. We argue that Taiwanese Americans occupy a distinct space in modern Asian American history ... Read More Keywords: Filipino Americans; United States; Philippines; Taiwanese Americans; Political participation; Vietnamese Americans; Anti-communist movements; Chinese American women; Women missionaries; Stews; Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean Americans PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: On August 24, 1982, Nguyễn Đạm Phong, a journalist who published the Vietnamese American weekly Tự Do (Freedom), was shot dead in the driveway of his home. The murder was attributed to a mysterious group called the “Vietnamese Organization to Exterminate Communists and Restore the Nation” (VOECRN). Prior to his death, Phong had published numerous articles denouncing a rising Vietnamese exile anticommunist organization: the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam.1 The organization claimed to be sending guerrillas back to Indochina with the intent of overthrowing the Vietnamese communist regime. While the Vietnamese American community, at large, supported the activities of the organization, Phong ... Read More Keywords: Filipino Americans; United States; Philippines; Taiwanese Americans; Political participation; Vietnamese Americans; Anti-communist movements; Chinese American women; Women missionaries; Stews; Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean Americans PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Historical research on nineteenth-century Chinese American women and girls has been profoundly affected by the challenge in locating direct primary accounts of their experiences and perspectives.1 Most studies have focused on merchants’ wives and children and prostituted women who lived in San Francisco in the late 1880s and 1890s, after the passage of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. These studies have generally concluded that Chinese American women and girls in the nineteenth century were tightly controlled by patriarchal forces within Chinese American communities, by racist discrimination and violence from European American society, and by the suite of anti-immigrant laws that specifically targeted Chinese ... Read More Keywords: Filipino Americans; United States; Philippines; Taiwanese Americans; Political participation; Vietnamese Americans; Anti-communist movements; Chinese American women; Women missionaries; Stews; Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean Americans PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: In this article, I draw together an archive of gastronomical narratives about food and the Korean War, with a particular focus on budae jjigae—a stew combining American food products like Spam, hot dogs, and American cheese with Korean food staples such as kimchi and ramen noodles that emerges in 1950s South Korea in the aftermath of the Korean War. Whereas memorials, museums, history texts, and other sources of war narratives usually commemorate war’s extraordinary circumstances, these sources often leave out much of the everyday experience of war such as what people eat.1 As much as commemoration, eating is a discursive activity—we talk about and understand food in a public realm, and thus culinary ... Read More Keywords: Filipino Americans; United States; Philippines; Taiwanese Americans; Political participation; Vietnamese Americans; Anti-communist movements; Chinese American women; Women missionaries; Stews; Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean Americans PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: “We overdress, we migrants. We care too much how we look to you. We get it wrong. … We absorb information without asking questions. Questions cost us jobs, visas, lives.” Kenyan Indian poet Shailja Patel’s Migritude resonates deeply with Lalaie Ameeriar’s Downwardly Global. Ameeriar captures the excesses, the “too much,” performed by and associated with Pakistani migrant women in Canada. She details how racialized associations are bound up in government, immigration, and labor structures, evidencing that “jobs, visas, lives” are always at stake in the performance of culture. Ameeriar also builds her interlocutors into resilient theorists who, rather than submit to a system of governmentality that ... Read More Keywords: Filipino Americans; United States; Philippines; Taiwanese Americans; Political participation; Vietnamese Americans; Anti-communist movements; Chinese American women; Women missionaries; Stews; Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean Americans PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: That Asian American literature forms a vital part of the American literary scene is no longer a question. Asian American literature is found on various bestseller lists, winning prestigious literary awards such as the PEN and Pulitzer, and is included in college course offerings and among book club choices and recommendations. However, this recognition was not won overnight, as Rei Magosaki’s nuanced and well-researched monograph reminds us. Tricksters and Cosmopolitans studies cross-cultural collaborations between Asian American writers and non-Asian American editors and publishers from the early to contemporary period of Asian American writing. It captures the complexity involved in negotiating various ... Read More Keywords: Filipino Americans; United States; Philippines; Taiwanese Americans; Political participation; Vietnamese Americans; Anti-communist movements; Chinese American women; Women missionaries; Stews; Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean Americans PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Camilla Fojas’s Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture is a detailed and timely investigation of some of the most popular media of the past decade in the context of the global economic downturn. Using the term “crisis capitalism” to note the uncertainty and upheaval of this economic era, Fojas elaborates on the new narratives that have emerged on the cusp of and following the financial “freefall.” This freefall, she writes, is both terrifying and liberating as it “generates a great leveling subsequent to crisis or disaster. It marks the beginning of a new storyform” (5). Fojas pays particular attention to zombie narratives, “riches to rags” falls from fortune, and other ... Read More Keywords: Filipino Americans; United States; Philippines; Taiwanese Americans; Political participation; Vietnamese Americans; Anti-communist movements; Chinese American women; Women missionaries; Stews; Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean Americans PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
Abstract: Nguyen Tan Hoang’s A View from the Bottom takes somewhat counterintuitive aim: to highlight gay male Asian and Asian American bottomhood as “an advantageous position” (21) of pleasure and critical thought and to resist the heterosexist remasculinization of Asian America. Nguyen’s positional insistence demands a delicate balance between “high” gay male theory, which has yet to account adequately for racial difference, and Asian American criticism, which still grapples with queer subjectivities and “low” materials like pornography. Against these currents, the author pits “low theory,” a fitting description for his eclectic visual archive and theoretical breadth. Low theory allows Nguyen to probe the gay male ... Read More Keywords: Filipino Americans; United States; Philippines; Taiwanese Americans; Political participation; Vietnamese Americans; Anti-communist movements; Chinese American women; Women missionaries; Stews; Korean War, 1950-1953; Korean Americans PubDate: 2018-06-05T00:00:00-05:00
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