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.

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.

Commentary: Widening the Lens and Rethinking Asian American History

2007 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-610
Author(s):  
THOMAS BENDER
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
American History ◽  
New Work ◽  
Asian American History ◽  
Comparative Aspect ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Conceptual Clarity ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
New Research ◽  
East West

The new research here reported is extending Asian American and American history into the Pacific, complementing recent Atlantic world studies. Such extension fundamentally challenges the dominant east-west movement of American history. These essays offer (or reveal the need for) greater conceptual clarity in defining terms in the field and the scope of the field's international dimensions. This new work highlights the importance of including a comparative aspect of transnational and global approaches to American history. While Pacific-wide or global developments may share a common history, there are also very specific local histories that demand distinction and invite comparison. Collectively, the essays gathered together suggest a more capacious definition of the field.

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