The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies

Chiang, Mark

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“…In this way, Asian American blogs together can be taken to contribute to politicization in the same way that Asian American Studies courses have been seen to impact the identities of its practitioners. As Chiang argues: “The purpose of Asian American studies, in other words, is to transform Asian ethnic students into Asian American subjects, who will, one hopes, become part of the Asian American body politic or ‘community’” (2009: 40). Although Chiang is skeptical that this politicization is effective, it is clear that education is seen as an important aspect of guiding Asian Americans toward realizations of their shared oppression.…”

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Blogging while angry: the sustainability of emotional labor in the Asian American blogosphere

Lopez

2014

Media, Culture & Society

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The Asian American blogosphere has developed to encompass a variety of voices regularly providing readers with news items, opinions, and personal narratives of life in Asian America. In this article I investigate the relationship between emotion and activism in order to better understand the potential for using blogs as part of a sustainable social movement, as well as to theorize the kind of labor that activism can entail. This study is based on interviews with 15 bloggers who have created or written for blogs that focus specifically on Asian American issues. Through an analysis of the bloggers’ interviews and their blogging archive, I argue that emotion can play a foundational role in generating activist interventions and building the necessary community required for contributing to social change, but can also have a deleterious impact on the individuals involved. It is only through recognizing the ambivalent role of emotion within the affective labor of activism online that we can work toward more sustainable participation and impact.

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Blogging while angry: the sustainability of emotional labor in the Asian American blogosphere

Lopez

2014

Media, Culture & Society

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Asian American Literature, Criticism and Theory

Kim¹

2016

The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies

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Asian American literature has its roots in the nineteenth century, and Asian American criticism and theory grew out of the Asian American movement of the 1960s and 70s. An extremely broad field, Asian American criticism examines literature by people of East Asian, Southeast Asian, South Asian, and Middle Eastern descent. Since its beginnings, Asian American literary criticism and theory have engaged with feminism, Marxism, poststructuralism, queer theory, postcolonialism, and cultural studies in heterogeneous and productive ways.

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Reading for Asian American Literature

Lye

2011

A Companion to American Literary Studies

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The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies

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Blogging while angry: the sustainability of emotional labor in the Asian American blogosphere

Blogging while angry: the sustainability of emotional labor in the Asian American blogosphere

Asian American Literature, Criticism and Theory

Reading for Asian American Literature

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