Sunday, February 23, 2020

Week 8, ASA 114, Anthony Tran


For this week’s topic of displacement, we have fascinating articles from K. Scott Wong and Bernard Scott Lucious. Wong wrote the article, “Diasporas, Displacements, and the Construction of Transnational Identities” that highlighted  the concerns of identity that most people had when American/European colonization was was displacing many other people including the native Hawaiians, Filipinos, Chinese, and more. One of the concerns brought up was lost identity and culture when forcing these non-white people in America to be “Americans” in the eyes of white Americans. There was conversation on what the new American image is supposed to be and how transnationalism and multiculturalism exist to weave people’s backgrounds to make sense in this newer society. The history that I most resonated with was the Chinese diaspora’s struggle with the notion anti-Chinese with this idea of “Chineseness.” 

Q: How did the Japanese/Japanese Brazilians shape their identity to be the “best possible Brazilians” (Wong 46)?

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