ASIA AM 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Asian American Movement, Asian Americans, Settler Colonialism
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1898: winning and losing hearts and minds in the american pacific. Relationship between concept of empire and asian american movement. How asians swayed and affected by imperialism. How in past imperialism was driving force behind expansion and beneficial. Now viewed critically and seen as problematic. How we may have affected reaction to smash but also smashing with a purpose. Legitimate use of violence to resist a force. If gain satisfaction from participating, also participating in the satisfaction of anti-colonial mobilizations. Recap: from vector to victimrethinking chinatown, and rethinking that rethinking (fung, shah) Opt: keyword for the study of the asian american movement. Navy of one: enlistment, autonomy, and everyday engagement with empire (suarez) Breaking frame and finding new photograph inspires new reflection on the chinese bachelor society. Homosocial communities single sex societies; seen as sources of vice and vectors in perhap an epidemic; may have been looked upon in alarm.
