Faith, Race and Nationalism

Takagi, Dana Y.

doi:10.1353/jaas.2005.0025

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“…In the time that I have been working at the intersection of Indigenous, settler colonial, Asian diaspora, Asian Canadian, and Asian American studies, I have been following a terminology debate that has developed over the past decade and a half regarding the colonial positionality of migrant, diasporic, and racialized minorities in settler societies like Hawai'i, Canada, and the United States. On one hand, a survey of the literature reveals that several scholars have taken a strong exception to the settler of color critique, contending that the term settler, when applied to migrant, diasporic, and racialized minorities, reinforces power binaries, lacks historical specificity, confuses migration with colonialism, or fails to account for the involuntary conditions of migration (see, e.g., Takagi 2005;Sharma and Wright 2008-9;Barker 2009;Veracini 2010;Wolfe 2013;. Meanwhile, other scholars have taken an unequivocal stance in assigning a settler colonial status to these migrant communities, conceptualizing various ways to engage yet nuance and contextualize the term in their theoretical and political projects (see Fujikane andOkamura 2000, 2008;Lawrence and Dua 2005;Thobani 2007;Haig-Brown 2009;Phung 2011;).…”

Section: The Settler Of Color Critiquementioning

confidence: 99%

Settler Colonial Studies, Asian Diasporic Questions

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Pegues²,

Phung³

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Section: The Settler Of Color Critiquementioning

confidence: 99%

Settler Colonial Studies, Asian Diasporic Questions

Day¹,

Pegues²,

Phung³

et al. 2019

Verge: Studies in Global Asias

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“…What become inevitable accompaniments in this repertoire are a prominence of Hindu ideals and hence a sense of cultural hegemony. Hindu nationalism echoes a sense of belonging or membership to the Hindu commune (Takagi 2004: 286–87). It has a genealogical meaning for CM as it enables roots searching and attestation of tradition.…”

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‘Guru’ Culture in South Asia: The Case of Chinmaya Mission in India

Pandya

2016

Society and Culture in South Asia

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Guru culture is a prominent phenomenon in contemporary South Asia. The guru is a charismatic figure and the bedrock of the concerned institution, which very often assumes the form of a movement. Recognition of the power of that charisma is the central aspect in the social and psychological dynamics of guru-led movements. They attract a large number of followers and social service engagements are a part of their common repertoire, reflecting and furthering the guru’s multiple societal entanglements. In this article, I focus on a prominent guru movement which originated in India, the Chinmaya Mission (CM), specifically with respect to its basic character and its interface with the Indian sociocultural fabric through compelling praxis, which I schematise through dimensions of its unique philosophical repertoire, sociality and habitus. Sociality in practice for CM is its mandate of social service. Social service is justified through the faith ideals. Habitus is generated by the Mission’s associates as an unconscious formation. Both sociality and habitus of the CM movement make a case for the resurgence of religion and the postsecular in Indian public discourse.

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“…There is the dynamic of Asian immigrants, with recent Micronesian immigrants living in extreme poverty and working the most menial jobs in Hawaii, as well as Asian locals and the Native Hawaiians. It is not about clearly defined dominant-subordinate relationships as Takagi (2004) proposes in which: 'Recent Asian immigrants and tourists have quite different historical trajectories than nineteenth-century contract laborers and their heirs who settled in Hawaii' (281). There are intra-minority conflicts, seen vividly in Yamanaka's work, class conflict, and 'a possessive investment of whiteness' (Lipsitz 1998) that the white teacher characters throughout both novels exemplify.…”

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Re-tracing theHaolefemale teacher–traveler in Hawaii

Twomey

2013

Race Ethnicity and Education

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Within this article I draw on the use of stories and interpretative reading practices: my own personal story and the literature of Asian American writer, Lois Yamanaka, to explore the racialization of social groups in Hawaii within a critical postcolonial perspective. I ask how we might learn to 'read back' to the colonial story of Hawaii without surrendering to a reification of the very structures of racial oppression and supremacy that drove the Imperial project, and I would argue, still influences the racial and social injuries of contemporary American life in Hawaii. I set Yamanaka's fictional account of various white teachers in Hawaii against my own startling experiences of being a haole or foreign female teacher in Hawaii over the last four years as a way to consider a more ethical framework for human relations within education.

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Faith, Race and Nationalism

Cited by 6 publications

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Settler Colonial Studies, Asian Diasporic Questions

Settler Colonial Studies, Asian Diasporic Questions

‘Guru’ Culture in South Asia: The Case of Chinmaya Mission in India

Re-tracing theHaolefemale teacher–traveler in Hawaii

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