Learning to speak a new tongue : imagining a way that holds people together--an Asian American conversation /

Learning to speak a new tongue : imagining a way that holds people together--an Asian American conversation /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Matsuoka, Fumitaka.
Imprint:	Eugene, Or. : Pickwick Publications, c2011.
Description:	xi, 142 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity. Asian Americans -- Race identity. Asian Americans -- Religion. Group identity -- United States. Cultural pluralism -- United States. Intercultural communication -- United States. Religious pluralism -- United States. Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity. Asian Americans -- Race identity. Asian Americans -- Religion. Cultural pluralism. Ethnic relations. Group identity. Intercultural communication. Race relations. Religious pluralism. United States -- Ethnic relations. United States -- Race relations. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8544647

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ISBN:	9781608998289 (pbk.) 1608998282 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-142).
Summary:	"What holds people together in a fragmented world? The response comes from a religious community that has not been very visible: Asian Americans. The author employs the threefold epistemological scaffold familiar to Asian Americans: (1) translocal value orientation embedded in the experiences of racialization, (2) a heightened sensitivity to pathos arising out of our dissonance with the societal norms and values, and (3) amphibolous spirituality, that is, a co-existence of multiple religious traditions without any resolution of their differences. The angle of vision embedded in this epistemological framework of Asian Americans' lives may well provide a clue to an alternate architectural paradigm in building a new peoplehood and to redefine democratic freedom as the historical paradigm of American peoplehood"--Back cover.

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Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: What Holds People Together in a Wounded World?
1. The Original Language of American Peoplehood and Its Corruption
2. People On the Way: Translocal and Rupturally Liminal Experience of Race
3. The Spirit of Dissonance and Dissent
4. Amphibolous Faith: Reality Is Multiple
Conclusion
Bibliography