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

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

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Imprint:	Ann Arbor, MI : Association for Asian Studies, [2022] ©2022
Description:	200 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Asia shorts ; number 14 Asia shorts ; no. 14.
Subject:	Asianists. African American college teachers. Black people -- Asia. Race. Black race. Asia -- Study and teaching. Asia -- Race relations.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12780423

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Other authors / contributors:	Bridges, William H., 1983- editor. Sharma, Nitasha Tamar, 1973- editor. Sterling, Marvin D., 1969- editor.
ISBN:	9781952636295 1952636299 9781952636301
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
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"--
Other form:	Online version: Who is the Asianist? Ann Arbor : Association for Asian Studies, 2022 9781952636301

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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 West Papua, 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.
Physical Description:	200 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9781952636295 1952636299 9781952636301