AMERASIA JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
24 September 2010
The special issue of Amerasia Journal on “Asian Australia and Asian America: Making Transnational Connections” will be launched at the Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, on 4 October 2010 at 5.30-6.30pm. The launch is preceded by an Asian Australian Forum organised by the Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN).
This volume is guest edited by Associate Professor Jacqueline Lo (The Australian National University; INDAAR Executive), Dr Dean Chan (Edith Cowan University; INDAAR Convenor), and Dr Tseen Khoo (Monash University; AASRN Convenor).
“By bringing Asian America and Asian Australia together in conversation in this volume, we hope to produce new insights into the study of Asian diasporas in western developed societies that go beyond the dominant perspective of Asian diasporics as domestic(ated) racialized minority subjects within the nation state. This is not to say, however, that we are denying the realpolitik of institutionalized racism experienced by many Asians in the U.S. and Australia … [E]ngagement with race and racism remains foundational to Asian Australian and Asian American Studies. However, by shifting the focus from the national to the transnational, and specifically, by bringing the different histories of settlement, race relations, immigration, and community politics in the U.S. and Australia into dialogue with each other, we hope this special issue will offer new comparative and contextual knowledge about diasporic Asian cultures.” (Excerpt from the guest editors' introduction)
The artwork on the cover is A.B.C. (Aboriginal Born Chinese) (2007) by Jason Wing, who is an artist with Aboriginal, Chinese and Australian heritage. The volume also features art and photography by Vernon Ah Kee, Matt Huynh, and Mayu Kanamori, as well as creative writings by Simone Lazaroo and Merlinda Bobis.
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