Saturday, November 28, 2015

Week 11 - "Theorizing Diasporas: Three Types of Consciousness” by Regina Lee - Jimmy Tran



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?

Works Cited
https://brianturchyn.net/running-a-diaspora-pod/
Lee, R. "Theorizing Diasporas: Three Types of Consciousness." Asian Diasporas: Cultures, Identities, Representations. Ed. Robbie Goh and Shawn Wong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004. Online.

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