Tuesday, April 16
-API popular Culture: popular culture produced by API
-APIs and popular cultures
-APIs in popular culture: APIs (culture, people…) included in popular culture
“Who produced popular culture”
Asian Americans in the Twenty-First Century
Japanese American: PI (Hawaiian); Chinese American; Vietnamese American; Hmong American; Korean American; South Asian American; Filipino/Pilipino American
Age/Generation; Geography; Occupations; Gender; Sexual Orientation
Oral history/ Asian and U.S. history
Thread/ Themes/ Topics: Americanization; Hybridity; Generation; Culture/ duality; Identity; Racism; Trauma (ind./ group); Generations; Gender; Work; Education; Family; Activism, woman; Sacrifice; American Dream
Film: “Better Luck Tomorrow” by Justin Lin (2002)
In the film, I saw some stereotype of Asian American such as studying hard, good students and bench warmer. On the over hand, also I found some deconstruction of these stereotype, Asian drag dealer.
“Real” parents- depends on people, there’s no definition.
“Lin is making a movie where race is not the point but simply the given.”
Wednesday, April 17
Film: My America (… or Honk If You Love Buddha)
Asian American seen as permanent foreign resident
There’s also difference between stereotype of Asian Americans men and women. It’s sad that people see others as their ethnicity not “person”.
D&R
Hapa: Mixed, a part of hawaiian & a part of something else
Black and Queer used to be used as bad meaning
If you want to use some other culture, you have responsibility of burden of that culture’s background, burden of everything else.
Friday, April 19
Film: “Rabbit in the Moon” by Emiko Omori (1999/2004)
Kibei- people who have Japanese parents (issei) and go back to Japan for education
The situation of the camp, concentration camp, was miserable. They have traumatic experience mentally and emotionally.
I took Japanese and world history in junior high and high school, and studied WWII. However, I’ve never studied about issei or nisei. I felt that it is important to study about them because their history is a part of Japanese history. I didn’t know that their situation especially around WWII. I thought that as Japanese, we also should study this history.