Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites: The Asian Ethnic Experience Today, and: Struggles for Ethnic Identity: Narratives by Asian American Professionals (review)

2001 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-186
Author(s):  
Grace J. Yoo
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Identity Narratives

From Merging Histories to Emerging Identities: An “Asian” Museum as a Site of Pan-ethnic Identity Promotion

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-54
Author(s):  
Chong-suk Han ◽  
Edward Echtle
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Pacific Islander ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Asian Pacific Islander ◽  
Common Problems ◽  
Asian American Identity ◽  
Asian Pacific ◽  
A Site

In this paper, we explore the significance of the Wing Luke Asian Museum (WLAM) in Seattle, Washington as a site where pan-ethnic Asian American identity can be promoted by analyzing the strategies employed by the staff and artists of the WLAM to promote, foster and disseminate a larger Asian Pacific Islander American pan-ethnic identity. We argue that museums are a significant site that can “provide a setting for persons of diverse Asian backgrounds to establish social ties and to discuss their common problems and experiences.”

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.

Racial Recalibration

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-309
Author(s):  
Margaret Rhee
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
New Media ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Emergent Technologies ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Racial Knowledge ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Artistic Career

Widely recognized as the first video artist, Nam June Paik’s artistic career from the 1960s onwards is often understood through his pioneering appropriation of technological developments such as the television and video. Paik foresaw not only the aesthetic potential of video, but also other emerging technologies, such as robotics. While his work in robotic art is less commonly analyzed, it sheds significant light on his position not only as a foremost artist of new media but also on discussions concerning his ethnic identity. This essay demonstrates how, in the 1964 creation of robot K-456 and tv Bra for Living Sculpture, the artist deployed the strategy of racial recalibration—a racial formation that occurs through aesthetic tinkering, hacking, and recreating with emergent technologies that re-wires racial knowledge of the Asian American as robot.

Language of Cyber-Politics: "Imaging/Imagining" Communities

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabienne H. Baider ◽  
Maria Constantinou
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Quantitative Approach ◽  
Identity Narratives ◽  
Interactional Context

AbstractAssuming that “YouTube provides a deindividuated interactional context where social identity, including ethnic identity, is salient” (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich et al. 2013, our emphasis), we focus our analysis on the online discussants’ identity narratives (i.e. avatars, pseudonyms and comments) in order to investigate what makes each identity narrative into a cohesive specific ethos and how this ethos is coherent with the positioning of the party and their leaders. Our methodology includes qualitative analysis (avatars and pseudonyms) as well as a quantitative approach (comments vs leadership speeches). Our findings confirm that the emotions and ideologies salient in the leadership speeches and keywords are perpetuated, reinvented and re-enacted in avatars, pseudonyms and comments, constructing therefore a coherent virtual community. We also conclude that the ethos of this virtual community was built on the concept of resisting the loss of sovereignty (among other things to resist), symbolically co-constructed with myths, memories and a glorious past, instilling pride and unity, while cultivating anger, resentment and contempt against the “enemy”.

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