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Who Is the Asianist? – The Politics of Representation in Asian Studies

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Who Is the Asianist? explores Asian Studies through the critical lenses of race, positionality, and authority, with a particular focus on Blackness in Asia. This collection of essays engages deeply with issues ranging from personal reflections of Black Asianists to the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement across countries such as Papua New Guinea, Japan, and Viet Nam. Contributors also examine the figure of the Muslim through a racial perspective and advocate for broader transregional analyses of slavery and intra-Asian relations, drawing on Black feminist theory and thinkers like James Baldwin. The book argues that meaningful change in Asian Studies requires embracing the full diversity of scholars, histories, and geographies involved in the field.
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This volume is suited for scholars, students, and readers interested in Asian Studies, race theory, and the intersections of global cultural and political identities. It appeals to those engaged with critical race perspectives, Black feminist thought, and interdisciplinary approaches to history and social justice within academic and educational contexts.

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Who Is the Asianist? reconsiders the past, present, and future of Asian studies through the lens of positionality and an analysis of race with an emphasis on Blackness in Asia. This book insists that change within Asian studies will occur only when it reckons with the entirety of the scholars, geographies, and histories that it comprises.

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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.

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The distinguished editors and contributors present a progressive and insightful collection that challenges traditional boundaries in Asian Studies. Praised for its intersectional approach, the volume encourages racial equity and justice, advocating for a broadened and transformed future within the discipline. Its scholarly efforts are seen as unmatched in signalling the necessity of integrating Black Studies perspectives into Asian Studies, making it a vital resource for understanding emerging imperatives in the field. -- Don J. Wyatt, Middlebury College

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ISBN: 9781952636295

Publisher: Association for Asian Studies

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 October 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Association for Asian Studies

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 166.0mm

Height: 237.0mm

Weight: 344g

Pages: 220

About the Author

Will Bridges (Edited by)
Will Bridges is Associate Professor of Japanese, Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities, and a Core Faculty member with the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies at the University of Rochester. His first monograph, Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature was published by the University of Michigan Press in 2020.

Nitasha Tamar Sharma (Edited by)
Nitasha Tamar Sharma is Professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. She is author of Hawai'i is my Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific and Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness, both published by Duke University Press, and coeditor of Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawai'i, published by the University of Hawai’I Press.

Marvin D. Sterling (Edited by)
Marvin D. Sterling is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is author of Babylon East: Performing Dancehall, Roots Reggae, and Rastafari in Japan (Duke UP 2010).

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