Week 7-Venice Santos

“Recollections of the past serve as the active ideological terrain on which people represent themselves to themselves.” This is difficult though when the past is hard to recollect or there is no record of a history. Like in the case of the Hmong people, in trying to retrieve these hidden records of their traditions, one must look through classical Chinese documents. I feel like Asians must always go through another person’s history in order to uncover their own people. How are we supposed to remove our label of being MIH “Missing in History” when we must learn about our history from another’s perspective?

 

Louisa Schein. “Diaspora Politics, Homeland Erotics and the Materializing of Memory.”

https://litdaily.wordpress.com/2011/01/20/asian-americans-%E2%80%9Cmissing-in-history%E2%80%9D/