Portals and Praxis in Japanese American Public History

2016 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-274
Author(s):  
Cherstin M. Lyon
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Asian American ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public History ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Problem Posing ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
The Public ◽  
Asian American History

The rise of Asian American History and Ethnic Studies courses, decentered whiteness in museum collections and exhibitions, and ethnic preservation activism all have the potential to inform and sensitize the general public in the same sense advocated by revolutionary thinker Paulo Freire. Ideally, they are all forms of problem-posing education that deeply engages and activates the public on behalf of social justice for the excluded or oppressed.

Towards a Pedagogy of Asian American Public History

2016 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-296
Author(s):  
Chrissy Yee Lau
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
American History ◽  
Public History ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
University Library ◽  
Asian American History

A pedagogical experiment in Asian American History courses partnered classes with the Cornell University Library. Students using its Japanese American Relocation Center Records archive learned to apply historical analysis through an intersectional framework of race, class, gender, and generation. Their finished projects formed a digital exhibition—a research tool accessible to the wider public.

Melodrama and Asian American Performance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eunha Na
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
American Theater ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Uncle Tom's Cabin ◽  
Wedding Banquet

American theater has long used melodramatic elements to shape the contour of racial dynamics and its representations for white mainstream audiences. Recurrent tropes of racial melodrama have appeared in such works as George Aiken’s stage adaptation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1858) and Dion Boucicault’s The Octoroon (1859), asserting a strong influence on the public perception of the ethical flaws of slavery and the ambiguity of racial identities. With its sympathetic portrayals of racial minorities as virtuous, innocent victims of social injustice, racial melodrama engaged white viewers in stories of racialized characters that aroused basic human feelings of compassion and sympathy as well as a sense of moral righteousness that encouraged and mobilized political actions, such as abolitionist movements, well beyond the theater. Modern and contemporary Asian American dramatists have adopted formal and thematic elements of melodrama and its affective strategies as a way to gain public visibility and re-articulate prevailing ethnic stereotypes formulated within a binary framework peculiar to melodrama. Melodrama’s emotional intensity and stylistic excesses effectively help to convey the historical, social, and emotional experiences of Asian Americans, including migration, displacement, and injustices such as Japanese American World War II incarceration. At the same time, Asian American dramatists’ critical revision of the melodramatic mode complicates the gendered and racialized dynamic that has defined the cultural identity of Asian Americans against white, mainstream America. The clearly melodramatic characteristics in Gladys Ling-Ai Li’s The Submission of Rose Moy (1924) seemingly reaffirm the stark division between Asian and American identities, only to reveal their ambiguities and uncertainties. While Velina Hasu Houson’s Asa Ga Kimashita (1981) and Tea (1987) render the suffering of Japanese American female characters emotionally relatable to the viewer as a universal experience, Asian female victimhood also serves as a melodramatic sign of national abjection under the violence of American racism and imperialism. Melodrama meets stage realism in Wakako Yamauchi’s The Music Lessons (1980) and in Philip Kan Gotanda’s The Wash (1985), where melodramatic pathos is facilitated through the plays’ attention to socio-political and psychological realism. Contemporary Asian American culture’s continued use of melodrama is most notable in transnational films such as The Wedding Banquet (1993) and Saving Face (2004), works that explore the potentials and limitations of melodrama as a critical aesthetic strategy.

Performance as Social Resistance: Pussy Riot as a Feminist Avant-garde

2021 ◽  
pp. 026327642110327
Author(s):  
Ilaria Riccioni ◽  
Jeffrey A. Halley
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
General Public ◽  
The Political ◽  
Art World ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Resistance ◽  
Rock Group ◽  
Pussy Riot

This article describes the short but remarkable sociopolitical life of the Russian rock group Pussy Riot. The group became famous in 2012 not only for the political content of its performances but for its transgressive performativity: its violation of established public settings and its creation of disturbing anti-authoritarianism images of today’s official Russia. The analysis aims to establish Pussy Riot as part of an avant-garde movement and as a radicalization of the very idea of the avant-garde against the familiarity of the public aspect of everyday life. Public ‘normalcy’ reveals itself to be complicit in that what should be criticized is instead taken for granted, and legitimized. Pussy Riot is a new art avant-garde in terms of both how it relates to activism, social justice, feminism, and art, and to the general public, not only to the art world.

Editor's Notes

2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. i-ii
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
General Public ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Institutional Challenges ◽  
Group Experience

This double issue features a range of articles which explore topics, issues and subject matter important to ethnic studies scholars, students, and the general public. In an important interdisciplinary way, these articles are each interdisciplinary explorations into the multi varied ethnic group experience. Some of these pieces provide research focused examinations of the life and living in ethnic communities. Other articles provide literary analyses of the challenges and rewards of life in ethnic communities. Still other articles offer critical perspectives regarding the social justice challenges facing ethnic groups as they attempt to successfully navigate institutional challenges still impeding the quest for social justice.

scholarly journals The Iguaçu Regional Museum and its Audiences

2021 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. e38899
Author(s):  
Michel Kobelinski
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Public History ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
The Public ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines discursive languages that the Regional Museum of Iguaçu built for itself and for its public, associated with the preservation of the environment and cultural heritage. In the second approach, the public of the museum exhibitions on social networks and forms of interaction with the Regional Museum of Iguaçu are analyzed. Based on the concepts and practices of public history, the objective is to contribute to the planning of exhibitions and to study the relationship between museum collections and audiences.

Karen Tei Yamashita

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
The Past ◽  
Asian American History ◽  
Karen Tei Yamashita ◽  
American Heritage ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Relationship Of

Karen Tei Yamashita’s novels, essays, and performance scripts have garnered considerable praise from scholars and reviewers, and are taught not only in the United States but in at least half a dozen countries in Asia, South America, Europe. Her work has been written about in numerous disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Karen Tei Yamashita: Fictions of Magic and Memory is the first anthology given over to Yamashita’s writing. It contains newly commissioned essays by established, international scholars; a recent interview with the author; a semiautobiographical keynote address delivered at an international conference that ruminates on her Japanese American heritage; and a full bibliography. The essays offer fresh and in-depth readings of the magic realist canvas of Through the Arc of the Rain Forest (1990); the Japanese emigrant portraiture of Brazil-Maru (1992); Los Angeles as rambunctious geopolitical and transnational fulcrum of the Americas in Tropic of Orange (1997); the fraught relationship of Japanese and Brazilian heritage and labor in Circle K Cycles (2001); Asian American history and politics of the1960s in I Hotel (2010); and Anime Wong (2014), a gallery of performativity illustrating the contested and inextricable nature of East and West. This essay-collection explores Yamashita’s use of the fantastical, the play of emerging transnational ethnicity, and the narrative tactics of reflexivity and bricolage in storytelling located on a continuum of the unique and the communal, of the past and the present, and that are mapped in various spatial and virtual realities.

ANALISA YURIDIS HAK KEBEBASAN BERPENDAPAT BERDASARKAN KETENTUAN UNDANG-UNDANG NOMOR 19 TAHUN 2016 TENTANG PERUBAHAN ATAS UNDANG-UNDANG NOMOR 11 TAHUN 2008 TENTANG INFORMASI DAN TRANSAKSI ELEKTRONIK

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 001
Author(s):  
Eddy Suwito
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
General Public ◽  
Legal Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Harm To Others ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Republic

The development of technology that continues to grow, the public increasingly facilitates socialization through technology. Opinion on free and uncontrolled social media causes harm to others. The law sees this phenomenon subsequently changing. Legal Information Known as Information and Electronic Transaction Law or ITE Law. However, the ITE Law cannot protect the entire general public. Because it is an Article in the ITE Law that is contrary to Article in the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia.

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