Project Thoughts pt. 2
I’m still in the process of narrowing the topic for my paper more, and hopefully the researching process helps me get more of a clear focus. I decided that along with focusing on my childhood I would also focus on the Midwest, where I spent the entirety of my childhood. I want to try not to homogenize Midwest culture because there are a lot of distinct and complex aspects to it as far as being a cultural location.
I’ve decided to focus more on one APIA group in a Midwest setting to narrow my topic more, which hopefully I will know by next week. I have a film to watch this weekend to help start my research called My America . . . or Honk If You Love Buddha by a documentarian named Renee Tajima-Peña (thanks, Chico). From what I’ve read of it so far it’s a documentary on Tajima-Peña driving around the country and examining what it means to be Asian-American in a racial landscape that has drastically changed since her childhood. It’s also inspired by On the Road by Jack Kerouac, which is a book I never read but have heard people talk about enough so that I think I have an okay understanding of the general plot. Maybe. We’ll see. I’ll talk about what I took away from the movie next week.