Dis. Place. Or maybe it’s wrong to say displacement when Wong argues how cultural identity is “not necessarily fixed to a place” (Wong 49), but is a part of a constantly changing process, otherwise known as transnationalism. He also discusses denationalization wherein people’s identities become “more fluid and decentered” (Wong 49) beyond one nation-state. Similarly, Tsuda’s case study on how Japanese Brazilians experience race is “de-essentialized” (Tsuda 225). Essentially, ethnicity (like nationality) is not a fixed trait and can transform in various ways based on different social contexts in different locations. Lucious repeats this concept with the “Black Pacific” which discusses the “lived-experience of blackness” (Lucious 122) in relation to the Asian diaspora and its movements/routes. I noticed both his and Wong’s references to the Black Atlantic by Stuart Hall(?) and the re-use of strategic triangulation with Afro-Amerasians. My own uncle negotiates his own strategic triangulation with a dual citizenship in both New Zealand and South Korea as well as personal connections in America. Question: What does the phrase “right-sized” (Wong 48) mean in response to less American domestic operations?
Works Cited:
K. Scott Wong. “Diasporas, Displacements, and the Construction of Transnational Identities.” Displacements.
Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda. “When Minorities Migrate: The Racialization of the Japanese Brazilians in Brazil and Japan.” Asian Diasporas.
Bernard Scott Lucious. “Into the Black Pacific: Testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian Displacements.” Displacements.
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