Who is the Asianist? :: the politics of representation in Asian studies /

"Who Is the Asianist? reconsiders the past, present, and future of Asian Studies through the lens of positionality, questions of authority, and an analysis of race with an emphasis on Blackness in Asia. From self-reflective essays on being a Black Asianist to the Black Lives Matter movement in...

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Weitere Verfasser: Bridges, William H., 1983- (HerausgeberIn), Sharma, Nitasha Tamar, 1973- (HerausgeberIn), Sterling, Marvin D., 1969- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Ann Arbor, MI : Association for Asian Studies, [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Asia shorts ; no. 14.
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Zusammenfassung:"Who Is the Asianist? reconsiders the past, present, and future of Asian Studies through the lens of positionality, questions of authority, and an analysis of race with an emphasis on Blackness in Asia. From self-reflective essays on being a Black Asianist to the Black Lives Matter movement in Papua New Guinea, Japan, and Viet Nam, scholars grapple with the global significance of race and local articulations of difference. Other contributors call for a racial analysis of the figure of the Muslim as well as a greater transregional comparison of slavery and intra-Asian dynamics that can be better understood, for instance, from a Black feminist perspective or through the work of James Baldwin. As a whole, this diversified set of essays insists that the possibilities of change within Asian Studies occurs when, and only when, it reckons with the entirety of the scholars, geographies, and histories that it comprises"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781952636301
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