East of California: Points of Origin in Asian American Studies

Sumida, Stephen H.

doi:10.1353/jaas.1998.0012

Cited by 17 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 9 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Aside from ethnic subgroups, parts of the United States enjoy a certain hegemony when it comes to Asian Americans. In an effort to disrupt the hegemony of the Golden State, the term "East of California" was coined within Asian American studies (Sumida, 1998) to draw attention to how the conditions and experiences of people in paucity of scholarship on "mixed" or "Hapa" Americans who have Asian ancestry also interrupts the conceptualization, naming, and pedagogies for the pan-ethnic Asian American project that is largely constructed around static and singular notions of race and ethnicity (B. Chang, 2013; Harris, 2016).…”

Section: Date: 27 May 2017mentioning

confidence: 99%

Asian Americans and Education

Chang¹

2017

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The communities that constitute the racialized category of Asian Americans consist of approximately 20 million people in the United States, or about 5% of the total population. About 20% or 4 million are of primary or secondary school age, and over 1.1 million are in higher education. Both in popular and academic discourse, “Asian American” generally refers to people who have ethnic backgrounds in South Asia (e.g., Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), Southeast Asia (e.g., Cambodia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam), and East Asia (e.g., China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan). As “Asian American” is an umbrella term used to categorize a very diverse, heterogeneous, and transnational set of populations, Asian Americans as a group present various challenges to education and research in and about the United States. These challenges can concern paradigms of achievement, citizenship, family involvement, access (e.g., higher education, bilingual education), language and culture, race and ethnicity, and school community. In order to address these paradigmatic challenges, a great deal of scholarship has called for a disaggregation of the data on populations that fall under the pan-ethnic “Asian America” umbrella term, to gain a more nuanced and dynamic understanding of the many diverse populations and their historical, cultural, economic, and political experiences. To further address the problematic framing of Asian Americans in education and related fields, scholars have applied critical lenses to key tensions within conceptualization, policy, curriculum, and pedagogy. More recently, the notions of intersectionality and transnationalism have been generative in the study of Asian Americans, within not only educational research but also Asian American studies, which generally falls under the field of ethnic studies in the U.S. context, but has also been categorized under American studies, cultural studies, or Asian studies. While characterizations of Asian Americans as “the Model Minority” or “the Oppressed Minority” persist, the relevance of such static binaries has increasingly been challenged as the Asian American populations and migrations continue to diversify and increase.

show abstract

Section: Date: 27 May 2017mentioning

confidence: 99%

Asian Americans and Education

Chang¹

2017

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…During the 1960s, many Asian American college students participated in the broader struggles for racial equality that were sweeping the nation and were confronted with their own lack of equality, conditioned in large part by the experiences of Japanese Americans who were interned during World War II (Takaki 1989 the Asian American studies NKM continues its efforts. The differences between the early mobilizations in California and the later ones throughout the United States that began in the late 1980s and continue today are sufficient to have resulted in somewhat of a rift within the interdiscipline of Asian American studies-scholars within the discipline talk of the "California model" and the "East of California model" (Sumida 1998). Indeed, the first program not on the west coast was founded at Bowling Green State University in Ohio in 1979(Hu-DeHart 1993.…”

Section: The New Knowledge Movement For Asian American Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Thinking Outside the Master's House: New Knowledge Movements and the Emergence of Academic Disciplines

Arthur¹

2016

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper proposes a theoretical framework for understanding emergent disciplines as knowledge-focused social movement phenomena called New Knowledge Movements, or NKMs. The proposed theoretical framework is developed through a synthesis of new social movement theory and Frickel and Gross’s Scientific/Intellectual Movements (SIMs) model. In contrast to the SIMs model, this paper argues that many new disciplines emerge through contentious collective action on the part of political and intellectual outsiders rather than through the action of intellectual elites. The framework is demonstrated and tested through a narrative exploration based on secondary sources and scholar-activist tests of the emergence of two disciplines, women’s studies and Asian American studies, in the United States. Suggestions for future applications are provided.-- This email may be subject to disclosure under R.I. Gen. Laws § 38-2-2. Confidentiality cannot be assured.Mikaila Mariel Lemonik ArthurChair, Department of Sociology, Rhode Island CollegeCraig-Lee Hall Room 451marthur@ric.edu <mailto=marthur@ric.edu>Phone: (401) 433-9633 Fax: (401) 456-8665http://www.mmlarthur.com

show abstract

Race/Ethnicity in Media History

Squires¹

2012

The International Encyclopedia of Media Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Media historians and scholars who utilize historical comparison in their work have drawn upon critical race theory to guide their interrogations of the past, and have structured important, complex renderings of media histories that debunk simple timeline and “great individual” approaches to historical inquiry. Attending to race/ethnicity in historical inquiry enriches scholarship, regardless of whether the subject is explicitly recognized as part of a marginalized racial/ethnic group or its cultural expressions. Unpacking the large and subtle ways race/ethnicity have shaped our media systems, production, and reception serves to both complicate and complete our view of the past. This chapter maps studies of race/ethnicity and media history in four sections: (1) “Rediscovering Roots” illustrates how scholars have unearthed and preserved contributions of people of color overlooked by prior historians; (2) “Documenting Discrimination” reviews work that excavates histories of structural barriers, stereotype production, and other institutional exclusions in media history; (3) “Multiculturalisms and National Identit(ies)” explores scholarship that has acknowledged that our current era is not the first “multicultural” one to emerge; (4) “Public Memory, Race and Media” looks at the ways in which media scholars have turned to the role of media's influence in public commemoration of historical events and figures, and how media figure into the representation of what our history and national identity mean in the face of different interpretations of and additions to dominant historical events.

show abstract

East of California: Points of Origin in Asian American Studies

Cited by 17 publications

References 9 publications

Asian Americans and Education

Asian Americans and Education

Thinking Outside the Master's House: New Knowledge Movements and the Emergence of Academic Disciplines

Race/Ethnicity in Media History

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About