TY - BOOK ID - 134988080 TI - Who is the Asianist? : the politics of representation in Asian studies AU - Bridges, William H. AU - Sharma, Nitasha Tamar AU - Sterling, Marvin D. PY - 2022 SN - 9781952636301 1952636302 PB - Ann Arbor, MI : Association for Asian Studies, DB - UniCat KW - Asianists KW - African American college teachers KW - Black people KW - Black race KW - Asia KW - Study and teaching. KW - Race relations. KW - Asianists. KW - African American college teachers. KW - Race KW - Black race. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134988080 AB - "Who Is the Asianist? reconsiders the past, present, and future of Asian Studies through the lens of positionality, questions of authority, and an analysis of race with an emphasis on Blackness in Asia. From self-reflective essays on being a Black Asianist to the Black Lives Matter movement in Papua New Guinea, Japan, and Viet Nam, scholars grapple with the global significance of race and local articulations of difference. Other contributors call for a racial analysis of the figure of the Muslim as well as a greater transregional comparison of slavery and intra-Asian dynamics that can be better understood, for instance, from a Black feminist perspective or through the work of James Baldwin. As a whole, this diversified set of essays insists that the possibilities of change within Asian Studies occurs when, and only when, it reckons with the entirety of the scholars, geographies, and histories that it comprises"-- ER -