Week 8 Blog Post

In “Into the Black Pacific: Testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-­Amerasian Displacements,” Bernard Scott Lucious discusses experiences of three diasporic groups: African-American military men, Asian Women who had relations with the military men, and the Afro-Amerasian children born from the intermixing of these two groups. He uses the testimonies of these groups to show the challenges related to life experience of blackness in cultures of the Vietnamese diaspora in particular. By recording these testimonies, I believe that Bernard Scott Lucious makes adequate work of highlighting the experiences of a mixed race that may not be as well known to the field of diasporic studies. This particular chapter relates to this week’s theme of Displacements because it shows how the displaced black body can adapt and react to the colorism in Vietnam. This chapter also relates to events outside of class because this idea of displacement based on colorism is not only relevant to Afro-Amerasians, but other racial groups as well. It is also not an outdated idea either because many people still feel displaced on the basis of the color of their skin.

Question: What does Bernard Scott Lucious hope to accomplish by sharing the testimonies of Afro-Amerasians with his readers?

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Bernard Scott Lucious. “Into the Black Pacific: Testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-­Amerasian Displacements.” Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas.

-Brittany Carlson