Who is the Asianist? : the politics of representation in Asian studies / edited by Will Bridges, Nitasha Tamar Sharma, and Marvin D. Sterling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bridges, William H., 1983- editor.

Sharma, Nitasha Tamar, 1973- editor.

Sterling, Marvin D., 1969- editor.

Series:

Asia shorts ; no. 14.

Asia shorts ; number 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asia--Study and teaching.

Asia.

Asianists.

African American college teachers.

Black people--Asia.

Black people.

Race.

Asia--Race relations.

Black race.

Physical Description:

200 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, MI : Association for Asian Studies, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Who Is a South Asianist? A Conversation on Positionality / Isabel Huacuja Alonso

2. A Different Way of Seeing: Reflections of a Black Asianist / Carolyn T. Brown

3. From Bhagddd to Baghpur: Sailors and Slaves in Global Asia / Guangtian Ha

4. The Asianist is Muslim: Thinking through Anti-Muslim Racism with the Muslim Left / M. Bilal Nasir

5. Racial Capitalism and the National Question in the Early People's Republic of China / Jeremy Tai

6. Science without Borders? The Contested Science of "Race Mixing" circa World War II in Japan, East Asia, and the West / Kristin Roebuck

7. Toward an Afro-Japanese and Afro-Ainu Feminist Practice: Reading Fujimoto Kazuko and Chikappu Mieko / Felicity Stone-Richards

8. Black Japanese Storytelling as Praxis: Anti-Racist Digital Activism and Black Lives Matter in Japan / Kimberly Hassel

9. From Black Brother to Black Lives Matter: Perception of Blackness in Viet Nam / Trang Q. Nguyen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Who is the Asianist?

ISBN:

9781952636295

1952636299

OCLC:

1288193468