Jimmy Tran
Professor Valverde
ASA 114
27 November 2015
Week
10 Blog Entry
In “Theorizing Diasporas: Three Types of
Consciousness” by Regina Lee, she does a good job of talking about culturally
dislocated or ideologically “fixed” communities. Additionally, she talks about
how these type of communities have a lot of diversity and how that came to be. Homeland
idealism, boutique multiculturalism and transitional ethnic diasporic ethnicities/identities
are the three types of consciousness that theorizes Diasporas in unique ways.
Homeland idealism credits the homeland as being the most powerful motivator of
diasporic behavior because the homeland-idealizing diasporic community is
always marginalized because it is physically absent from the homeland. Boutique
multiculturalism manifestation happens due to a direct effect of globalization
increasing the cultural plurality which gives rising to more multicultural
societies. Transitional diasporic ethnicities and identities is a type of
consciousness that is highly politicized because it allows the diasporic subject
to be critically aware of the rootedness on more than one history, its location
from the past and the present. This can be related to rethinking Diasporas
because people move to different locations for a sense of belonging. They may
feel marginalized from their own homes.
If an individual would
come from a well established community, would there be other incentives for the
individual to move? What type of diaspora would this considered to be?
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