Bernard Scott Lucious’s chapter “In the Black Pacific: Testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-Asian Displacements” highlights anti-Black sentiments and colorism in the Vietnamese community. “As these testimonies of displacements have shown, the lived-experience of blackness of Vietnamese Afro-Amerasians is rooted in the pervasiveness of colorism in Vietnam and routed throughout the multiplicity of contact zones” (Lucious Kindle Locations 2176-2177). In class, we have learned about the lived experiences of the diaspora through cultural contact and race. Many in the Vietnamese community associate a negative connotation with Black, however, we should look beyond the color of a person’s skin. Rather we should use a critical race framework, as Dr. Chung has taught us in ASA189D, to see the whole picture and histories behind this resentment in order to combat it.
Bibliography
Luscious, Bernard Scott. “Into the Black Pacific: Testimonies of Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian Displacements.” Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas. Rutgers University Press, 2005.
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