Racism and “Place” in American Catholic Experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 82-102
Author(s):  
Linh Hoang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
Struggle For Recognition ◽  
The Church

Racism occurs in place. It is any place where human beings dwell such as a certain location, a house, or even a church. Racism is a lived experience that exposes the tragedy of hate and fear of the other. It pushes people into uncomfortable places. Asian Americans have built enclaves across the United States in order to maintain their cultural identity and help in resettlement. These ethnic enclaves have become, however, a way to silence and sideline Asians from the racial debates that has traditionally pitted blacks and whites for centuries. Asians have "assimilated" well into the dominant white culture but have not been completely accepted instead they continue to experience discrimination and prejudices. Even in the Church, Asian American Catholics struggle for recognition of their contribution and participation. The process of reconciliation that Robert J. Schreiter has elaborated provides an opportunity for Asian American Catholics to engage in the racial conversation while improving the Church's place in healing racism.   

Minor Feelings in the Wake of the Atlanta Attack: How a Mom of Asian Descent Spent the First 100 hours in the Aftermath

2021 ◽  
pp. 153270862110199
Author(s):  
Pengfei Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
American Poet ◽  
Asian Descent ◽  
Chinese Descent ◽  
Mass Shooting

This autoethnographic writing documents how a family of Chinese descent spent their first 100 hours after the Atlanta Shooting on March 16, 2021, in which a White gunman killed eight people, including six Asian women. It bears witness to the rise of the anti-Asian racism in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic and offers a snapshot of the private life of a family of Asian descent in the dawn of the Stop Asian Hate Movement. Drawing on Korean American poet Cathy Park Hong’s term minor feelings, this essay explores how emotions, rooted in racialized lived experience and triggered by the mass shooting, evolved, shifted, and fueled the sentiments that gave rise to the Stop Asian Hate Movement. Compared with the more visible violence against Asians and Asian Americans displayed on social media, it interrogates the less visible traumatic experience that haunts Asian and Asian American communities.

Afterword: Transnational Asian Studies—Toward More Inclusive Theory and Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 1033-1044
Author(s):  
Sonia Ryang
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
White Male ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Historical Role ◽  
The One

Based on the articles in this “Global Asias” forum, this essay proposes that in order to build a meaningful bridge between Asian studies and Asian American studies, we must first face what needs to be critically overcome in Asian studies itself: persistent white male domination of the field, on the one hand, and historical role that the United States has played in Asia, on the other. One possibility is to adopt a transnational Asian studies approach, which advocates bringing Asian studies and Asian American studies together while also envisioning radical interdisciplinarity across Asian studies and African American studies, Latino/a studies, and Asian American studies. The key to pursuing such an approach would be to create a teaching and research environment of inclusion and collaboration.

scholarly journals From Forever Foreigners to Model Minority: Asian American Men in Sports

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yomee Lee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Students ◽  
New York ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Male College ◽  
Asian American Men ◽  
Male College Students

AbstractDespite their long history in the United States, relatively little scholarly attention has been paid to Asian Americans and their lived experience in sports. The purpose of this study was to give voices to Asian American men by focusing on their experiences in sports. In particular, this study examined the experiences of East Asian and Southeast Asian American male college students who were often perceived as “foreign” and “pejoratively feminine” racialized minority yet participated in sports that were associated with dominant masculinity in the U.S. The setting of the study was as a predominately White institution located in Upstate New York where Asian Americans make up about one percent of the total student population. Qualitative research method was employed for the study. Six Asian American male students were recruited through snowball and purposeful sampling methods. In-depth interviews were conducted to reveal the rich stories of these Asian American men. The research showed that the stories of Asian American male college students were much nuanced and complicated. Specifically, this study revealed that Asian American men were constantly otherized as “forever foreigners” who did not have a legitimate citizenship in the United States. Also, Asian Americans faced unique ideas about their manhood that either highlighted emasculated and feminized masculinity or hyper-masculinity. In dealing with these situations, Asian American men employed unique cultural strategies to challenge and resist racial stereotypes through sports.

The Effects of Being Born in the United States on the Job Satisfaction of Asian Americans

2000 ◽  
Vol 87 (1) ◽  
pp. 347-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles N. Weaver
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
European American ◽  
Full Time ◽  
European Americans ◽  
The U.S

Analysis of the responses of Asian American ( n = 178), African American ( n = 1,026), and European American ( n = 8,118) full-time workers to 21 nationwide surveys representative of the U.S. labor force from 1972 through 1996 showed the job satisfaction of Asian Americans compared to that of the other two groups was affected by whether subjects were born in the United States. In addition, there were no gender differences in job satisfaction among African Americans and European Americans who were and were not born in the U.S., but there were such differences among Asian Americans.

scholarly journals Biblical Mandate and Emerging Theology: Integral Spirituality: A Transformative Practice

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (15) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Moanungsang Moanungsang
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
True Self ◽  
Material World ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Human Endeavor ◽  
Transformative Practice ◽  
The Church

In the present time, the church and the society often discusses about the need for a deeper spirituality. On one hand, people are faced with countless startling life realities such as, poverty, disparity and unemployment; domination and violence; corruption and exploitation of power; emergence of an individualist, consumerist and competitive culture; and the like, which does not allow humans to establish profound and durable relationships.  People experience uncertainty, which terrorize their lives in fear and despair.  In response, the humankind explores kinds of spirituality that offers consolation and hope. On the other hand, the material world has extended to us abundant opportunities to develop our inner as well as outer formation and living.  However, often human endeavor turns in a futile circle as we fail to become mature enough to discover the true self and to live on earth in love, in peace, in harmony with oneself, with fellow human beings and nature and with the totality of our being. 

Comedy, Humor, and Asian American Representation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Kyungah Hong
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Culturally Different ◽  
The One ◽  
The 19Th Century

Asian Americans have had and continue to have a complicated relationship with comedy and humor. On the one hand, comedy and humor have always been a vital and dynamic part of Asian American culture and history, even if they have rarely been discussed as such. On the other hand, in mainstream US culture, Asian Americans are often represented as unfunny, unless they are being mocked for being physically, socially, or culturally different. Asian Americans have thus been both objects and agents of humor, a paradox that reflects the sociocultural positioning of Asian Americans in the United States. Examples of how Asian Americans have been dehumanized and rendered abject through comedy and humor, even as they also negotiate and resist their abjection, reach as far back as the 19th century and continue through the 21st. The sheer volume of such instances—of Asian Americans both being made fun of and being funny on their own terms—demonstrates that comedy and humor are essential, not incidental, to every part of Asian American culture and history.

When the Fences are Down; Language and Order in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn

1990 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 369-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne Fields
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Primary Function ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Order ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Church

The world of Tom Sawyer, both that of the character and of the novel which bears his name, is a world dominated by fences; the neat, straight palings that surround the Widow Dougla's property, the fence around the Teacher house over which the lovestick Tom gazes longingly after Becky, and all the other upright boundaries delineating St. Petersburg respectability. As the central icon of the novel, Aunt Polly's white-washed fence appropriately represents the care and maintenance of order to which the town is committed, an order upon which both Tom and his story depend. Although Twain first identifies St. Petersburg as a poor, shabby, frontier village, it is far from defenseless in its confrontations either with shabbiness or wilderness. Well ordered by its fences and undergirded, like Tom's story, by the central institutions of civil and cultural order — the court, the school, the church — it is a society where things have been assigned their proper places and where the primary function of the St. Petersburg elect is to tend those places. This is a world overseen by guardians and Sunday superintendents, schoolmastes, and judges, authorities who, if sometimes mistaken, or even slightly absurd, are essentially benign and nearly always reliable. Thus it is that the minister, praying for the community's children, does so in the context of a hierarchy of responsibility that from country officials to the President of the United States, an ordering presence that, among other reassuring work, is to guarantee the well-being of the young. As though to provide the fullest representation of this benevolent system, Missouri's most important senator, Thomas Hart Benton, makes a cameo appearance in the novel, albeit one in which he is judged of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer as a book about boyish freedom, it affirms at every turn an order of the most conventional sort and depends upon that order for the version of boyhood it depicts.

scholarly journals MARTABAT DALAM ITS WAVERING IMAGE KARYA PENULIS PEREMPUAN CHINA-AMERIKA, SUI SIN FAR

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliasih Kusharyanto
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sui Sin Far ◽  
Hispanic American ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Multicultural Feminism ◽  
Feminism Theory ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Multicultural society in the United States is depicted as a mosaic, composed of a variety of races andethnic groups that have always been different from one another. Some people argue that multiculturalismmay undermine solidarity. The designation African-American, Native-American, Asian-American,Hispanic-American, and many more to certain groups of people in a society may cause hostility oreven disintegration. Sui Sin Far in Its Wavering Image expresses her dissenting opinions. She whosupports diversity which is the main issue in America asserts that cultural differences have alwaysexisted. A person can be an American and can still be able to maintain another cultural identity. Shebelieves that all human beings are born free and are equal in dignity and rights. Thus, those who livein a heterogeneous society can be considered as a dignified society. Multicultural feminism theory isapplied to identify the inequalities induced by cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual diversity.

scholarly journals Like Sustenance for the Masses: Genre Resistance, Cultural Identity, and the Achievement of Like Water for Chocolate

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 209-224
Author(s):  
Ellen Puccinelli
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
The Other ◽  
Academic Experience ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
The Masses

Laura Esquivel's 1989 Mexican novel Like Water for Chocolate, neither translated into English nor published in the United States until 1992, was both an American bestseller and the basis for an acclaimed motion picture. Interestingly, though, Esquivel's work also seems to be receiving glimmers of the type of critical attention generally reserved for less “popular” works. Two particular critical studies composed in English, one by Kathleen Glenn and the other by Cecelia Lawless, have been devoted entirely to Chocolate, and both of the scholar/authors grace the faculties of reputable American institutions of higher learning. As a student whose academic experience has been replete with elitist attitudes and expressions of disdain for anything that smacks of an appeal to the masses, I was intrigued by Chocolate for this very reason; in a world where scholarly boundaries seem unalterably fixed, a work that appears capable of crossing these rigid lines is, in my opinion, both rare and admirably refreshing. In my studies, I have often hoped for more communication between “popular” and “scholarly” literature; Esquivel's novel provides not only opportunities for this dialogue but for other cross-genre discussions as well.

scholarly journals Crisis, what crisis? Addiction neuroscience and the challenges of translation

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Samuel McLean ◽  
Nikolas Rose
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Drug Overdose ◽  
Premature Mortality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Substance Addiction ◽  
Prescription Practices ◽  
Opioid Crisis ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Overdose Deaths

In this article we interrogate the claim that there is an opioid crisis: a dramatic rise in drug overdose fatalities in the United States over the past two decades that is also spreading to other countries.  The usual argument is that this crisis is largely explained by errant prescription practices leading to an oversupply of opioids, leading to addiction, premature mortality and drug overdose deaths, both among those prescribed opioids for pain relief, and those obtaining them on the illegal market.  We argue, that this view is highly problematic and that it is likely to entrench deeper problems with how substance addiction has been perceived and known. In this article, we develop an alternative picture of the addiction crisis based on four years of research and collaboration with addiction neuroscientists. Drug overdose deaths, we claim, are symptoms of what we term the ‘structural distribution of social despair.’ We argue that this is compounded by a translation crisis at the heart of addiction neuroscience. For all its dominance, the ‘dopamine hypothesis’ of addiction that shaped understandings for some three decades, has still not produced a single effective treatment. However, this translation crisis also represents an opportunity for ‘the memory turn’ in addiction neuroscience as it seeks to translate its emerging conception of addiction as a problem of memory into effective forms of treatment. We conclude by arguing that, for the ‘memory turn’ to underpin effective interventions into ‘the opioid crisis’, a new relation between neuroscientists and social scientists of addiction is needed, one that proceeds from the lived experience of human beings.

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