Literary Analysis Using Minecraft: An Asian American Youth Crafts Her Literacy Identity

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick Marlatt
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Asian American Youth ◽  
Literacy Identity

scholarly journals Explicating Acculturation Strategies among Asian American Youth: Subtypes and Correlates across Filipino and Korean Americans

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (10) ◽  
pp. 2181-2205 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoonsun Choi ◽  
Michael Park ◽  
Jeanette Park Lee ◽  
Miwa Yasui ◽  
Tae Yeun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Korean Americans ◽  
Acculturation Strategies ◽  
Asian American Youth

scholarly journals Cultural Immersion Camps and Development of Ethnic Identity in Asian American Youth

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-182
Author(s):  
Yi-Ju Wu ◽  
Corliss Outley ◽  
David Matarrita-Cascante
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Cultural Immersion ◽  
Asian American Youth ◽  
Mediating Factor

The purpose of this study was to explore camp outcomes specialized in ethnic identity among Asian American youth after they participated in a residential cultural immersion camp. In this study, the cultural immersion camp is viewed as a mediating factor that channels other influences in such a way as to guide Asian American youth to commit more expressly and more fully to their perception of ethnic identity. The results obtained from 3 cultural immersion camps located in the Western United States reveals that cultural immersion camp experiences significantly increase perceived levels of ethnic identity among Asian American youth. Implications of cultural immersion camp on the development of Asian American youth are discussed.

The Posthuman Subject in/of Asian American Literature

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle N. Huang
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Asian American Literature ◽  
Early 21St Century

Is the posthuman postracial? Posthumanism, an interpretive paradigm that unseats the human individual as the de facto unit of literary analysis, can be a powerful tool for Asian American literary studies when deployed with attention to critical race theory and literary form. Throughout American literature, Asian Americans have frequently been figured as inhuman—alien, inscrutable, and inassimilable. Representations of Asian Americans as either sub- or superhuman populate many genres, including adventure literature, domestic realism, comics, and science fiction. This trope, which combines yellow peril and model minority stereotypes, forms a through line that runs from depictions of Asian Americans as nerveless 19th-century coolies to 21st-century robotic office workers. Manifesting both threat and promise for America, posthuman representations of Asian Americans refract national and racial anxieties about the fading of the United States’ global influence as Asian nations, especially China, become political and economic superpowers. Rather than directly refuting these characterizations, Asian American writers have creatively engaged these same thematics to contemplate how developments in science and technology produce different ways of understanding the human and, concomitantly, engender changes in racial formation. Novelists, dramatists, poets, and artists have all deployed posthumanism in order to conduct imaginative experiments that challenge expectations regarding the typical purview of Asian American literature. Several nodes of inquiry that demonstrate the importance of posthumanist critique for Asian American literary studies include race as an index of humanity, the mutability of race through biotechnology, the amplification of racial inequality through infrastructure, and the reproduction of race through algorithmic culture. In the wake of early 21st-century ecological disaster and biotechnological fragmentation, examining the evolving relationship between Asian American racialization and posthumanism continues to provide important insights into how race is structured by the changing boundaries of the human and, in turn, demonstrates that the posthuman subject is never “beyond” race. In addition to offering an overview, this article provides a case study regarding the stereotyping of Asian Americans as robotic.

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