Francisco Gomez Week 3 Blog

I truly enjoyed reading Christopher Lee’s article, “Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Asian American Studies: Positions and Debates”. He talks about Asian American Studies and what it is to major in it. As someone who is taking their first Asian American class I found it very interesting to see how someone referred to the major and the different components. He made me think of the different components that one can learn about like the Asian American family structure, their migration stories, experiences of discrimination, topics like gender and sexuality within the Asian American community. He provided more background information to what the history of the word “diaspora” and it compared to what we have discussed and learned in class. I believe majors like Asian American Studies and other ethnic study majors like Chicana/o Studies are important and much can be learned from it. I am so thankful that I am CHI major because it has opened my eyes to so many things and given me the honor to take classes like ASA 114 and learn things that I was not aware of about other communities. 

Question: In Chicana/o Studies we have certain communities that don’t feel as represented in the studies of Chicana/o Studies, is the same situation common in Asian American Studies?

Work Cited: Lee, Christopher. “Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Asian American Studies: Positions and Debates.” Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas. Ed. Wanni W. Anderson and Robert G. Lee. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005. 23-38. Print.