Kent A Ono
Biographic Data
| ID | 172566 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kent A Ono |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kent A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ono |
| SIGNATURE | ONO K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-8313-5303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Migrant rhetoric as refuge ness
Creating Equitable Opportunities
In this article, the authors draw on their personal experiences as mid-career administrators and scholars of color to consider both the structures that limit, and opportunities for equity and social justice in, academic institutions. Although the primary logics that shape academic institutions serve to marginalize certain types of scholars and scholarship, they argue that institutions also contain gaps and contradictions where resistance is possi…
Fugitive Rhetorics in Media Representations of Sanctuary
Representations of undocumented people on television shows such as The Fosters can impact how audiences understand contemporary issues concerning sanctuary and migrants. In this Critical Intervention forum essay, we examine the intricate representation of Ximena, a Latinx woman, and her struggle as an undocumented person who takes up sanctuary in a church to avoid being arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This televisual represent…
The future of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies
With its beginnings marked by a challenge to a noncritical cultural history, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies is currently a mainstay within the communication discipline. Thinking about its future in terms of scholars whose work is currently challenging the field may help us think about where Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies was and is, and where it is going. The following seven special issue forum essays chart out new possi…
Rogue Archives
Digital communication has changed society’s collective knowledge. What we know, and what we preserve of what we know, is no longer stored primarily and dependably on paper. While vast repositories of information now exist digitally, as Abigail De Kosnik tells us in Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom, these “archives” of knowledge are fragile nonetheless. Generational revolutions in digital platforms, such as PDFs and jpegs, …
Asian Americans
This chapter briefly discusses the history of model minority myth scholarship and explains the expanse and limits of model minority discourse. It examines the contemporary media landscape by exploring how discourse about Asian and Asian-American digital and Internet builders and inventors—specifically the creators and founders of YouTube—relies on model minority imagery even when that image does not directly align. The chapter answers the conundr…
Critical Race Theory
Critical race theory (CRT) is an intellectual movement that seeks to understand how white supremacy as a legal, cultural, and political condition is reproduced and maintained, primarily in the US context. Key to CRT is an emphasis on social change; thus, scholars within CRT not only attempt to understand race and racism but also to remedy their effects. Within the field of communication, CRT has been taken up by only a few scholars; yet CRT's ove…
Global Asian American Popular Cultures
A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media. Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints-such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot sauce-have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of "Asian" and "Asian American" are counterbalanced w…
Retheorizing Adaptation
After reviewing traditional approaches to the study of immigrant adaptation, we develop a theory of differential adaptation, which suggests that migrants may adapt in a variety of ways that do not necessitate that they acquiesce to larger pressures to assimilate or accommodate the larger society they have joined; moreover, they may change the existing culture and society into which they move. Their experiences are “differential” and require a mor…
Response to ‘constructing the “other”
I appreciate this opportunity to respond to ‘Constructing the “Other”: Construction of Russian Identity in the Discourse of James Bond Films’ (Lawless, 2014), a contribution that I think makes head
Mad Men’s Postracial Figuration of a Racial Past
Lines of Flight”
“Lines of Flight”: Reterritorializing Asian American Film and Media Studies Kent A. Ono (bio) The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene. By Celine Parreñas Shimizu. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. 340pages. $94.95(cloth). $25.95(paper). Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema. By Jane Chi Hyun Park. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 255pages. $75(cloth). $25(paper). Racial…
Critical rhetorics of race
Critical
What Is This “Post-” in Postracial, Postfeminist… (Fill in the Blank)
The events of the 2008 election continue to spark prognostications that we live in a world that is postracial/feminist, and so on. At the 2009 NCA (National Communication Association) convention, a panel of communication scholars discussed how to approach questions of identity and communication over the next 5 years. Participants suggested ways to be critical of assertions of “post” and elaborated ways to encounter new dimensions of identificatio…
China in the US Imaginary
Dying Planet
Book Review| September 01 2008 Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination; Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century; American Science Fiction TV: Star Trek, Stargate, and Beyond Kent A. Ono Kent A. Ono Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 634–637. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-033 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share…
Companion to Asian American Studies
Teaching Texts
Teaching TextsInstitution and Discipline, Part 2 Yoonmee Chang (bio), Crystal Parikh (bio), Jane Naomi Iwamura (bio), and Kent Ono (bio) Introduction Yoonmee Chang In the last issue of JAAS, we began a discussion about the institutional place of Asian American Studies (AAS). A group of Asian Americanists from universities with limited resources and few Asian Americans on campus and in the local communities talked about the challenges, new and fam…
A Companion to Asian American Studies
Asian American Studies After Critical Mass
A Companion to Asian American Studies
(Kent A. Ono).Part I:. Defining Conversations in Asian American Studies.Psychology.1 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health. (Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue).2 The Ghetto of the Mind: Notes on the Historical Psychology of Chinese America. (Ben R. Tong).3 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health: A Reply to Tong's Criticisms. (Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue).History.4 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore. (L. Ling-chi Wang).5…
The emergence of Asian American communication studies
Shifting Borders
Proposal for an MA and Ph.D. programme in cultural studies at UC Davis
The following proposal for an MA and Ph.D. programme at the University of California, Davis, is the culmination of four years of meetings and other organizing activities focused on the formal institutionalization of cultural studies at UC Davis. Groundwork for the proposed cultural studies programme began in a series of discussions held by an interdisciplinary group of faculty about how to create the opportunity for structured graduate teaching, …
The critique of vernacular discourse
Critical rhetoricians should, by criticizing vernacular discourse, follow the path of those who have discussed the rhetoric of the oppressed. The critique of powerful discourse has broad “historical” impact and therefore has been the primary mode of critique within rhetorical criticism. In addition to the critique of widely disseminated texts, critics should examine texts that profoundly influence vernacular communities and communitas. We concept…
Commitment to telos— a sustained critical rhetoric
Our paper attempts to illustrate how a commitment toward telos enhances the critical process. We argue that self‐critical and “skeptical” scholarship is not an end in itself. Such work does not demonstrate, sufficiently, the contingent nature of criticism and its relationship to the society in which the critic is a member. Self‐reflective criticism isolates the critic and fates her to reproducing a lonely account of what culture is and how it fun…
Civilized Colonialism
This essay argues that Disney's animated film Pocahontas is a neocolonialist text that rewrites the history of American colonial encounters with Native Americans, replacing the history of mass slaughter with a cute tale that functions to "civilize" and relegitimate colonialism. The essay demonstrates how the film's romantic narrative appropriates contemporary social issues of feminism, environmentalism, and human freedom in order to make racial d…
Retheorizing Adaptation
After reviewing traditional approaches to the study of immigrant adaptation, we develop a theory of differential adaptation, which suggests that migrants may adapt in a variety of ways that do not necessitate that they acquiesce to larger pressures to assimilate or accommodate the larger society they have joined; moreover, they may change the existing culture and society into which they move. Their experiences are “differential” and require a mor…
Critical
China in the US Imaginary
Re/signing “Asian American”
Response to ‘constructing the “other”
I appreciate this opportunity to respond to ‘Constructing the “Other”: Construction of Russian Identity in the Discourse of James Bond Films’ (Lawless, 2014), a contribution that I think makes head
Commitment to telos— a sustained critical rhetoric
Our paper attempts to illustrate how a commitment toward telos enhances the critical process. We argue that self‐critical and “skeptical” scholarship is not an end in itself. Such work does not demonstrate, sufficiently, the contingent nature of criticism and its relationship to the society in which the critic is a member. Self‐reflective criticism isolates the critic and fates her to reproducing a lonely account of what culture is and how it fun…
The critique of vernacular discourse
Critical rhetoricians should, by criticizing vernacular discourse, follow the path of those who have discussed the rhetoric of the oppressed. The critique of powerful discourse has broad “historical” impact and therefore has been the primary mode of critique within rhetorical criticism. In addition to the critique of widely disseminated texts, critics should examine texts that profoundly influence vernacular communities and communitas. We concept…
Re/signing “Asian American”
Civilized Colonialism
This essay argues that Disney's animated film Pocahontas is a neocolonialist text that rewrites the history of American colonial encounters with Native Americans, replacing the history of mass slaughter with a cute tale that functions to "civilize" and relegitimate colonialism. The essay demonstrates how the film's romantic narrative appropriates contemporary social issues of feminism, environmentalism, and human freedom in order to make racial d…
Proposal for an MA and Ph.D. programme in cultural studies at UC Davis
The following proposal for an MA and Ph.D. programme at the University of California, Davis, is the culmination of four years of meetings and other organizing activities focused on the formal institutionalization of cultural studies at UC Davis. Groundwork for the proposed cultural studies programme began in a series of discussions held by an interdisciplinary group of faculty about how to create the opportunity for structured graduate teaching, …
Shifting Borders
A Companion to Asian American Studies
(Kent A. Ono).Part I:. Defining Conversations in Asian American Studies.Psychology.1 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health. (Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue).2 The Ghetto of the Mind: Notes on the Historical Psychology of Chinese America. (Ben R. Tong).3 Chinese-American Personality and Mental Health: A Reply to Tong's Criticisms. (Stanley Sue and Derald W. Sue).History.4 A Critique of Strangers from a Different Shore. (L. Ling-chi Wang).5…
The emergence of Asian American communication studies
A Companion to Asian American Studies
Asian American Studies After Critical Mass
Teaching Texts
Teaching TextsInstitution and Discipline, Part 2 Yoonmee Chang (bio), Crystal Parikh (bio), Jane Naomi Iwamura (bio), and Kent Ono (bio) Introduction Yoonmee Chang In the last issue of JAAS, we began a discussion about the institutional place of Asian American Studies (AAS). A group of Asian Americanists from universities with limited resources and few Asian Americans on campus and in the local communities talked about the challenges, new and fam…
Companion to Asian American Studies
China in the US Imaginary
Dying Planet
Book Review| September 01 2008 Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination; Mesmerists, Monsters, and Machines: Science Fiction and the Cultures of Science in the Nineteenth Century; American Science Fiction TV: Star Trek, Stargate, and Beyond Kent A. Ono Kent A. Ono Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2008) 80 (3): 634–637. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2008-033 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share…
What Is This “Post-” in Postracial, Postfeminist… (Fill in the Blank)
The events of the 2008 election continue to spark prognostications that we live in a world that is postracial/feminist, and so on. At the 2009 NCA (National Communication Association) convention, a panel of communication scholars discussed how to approach questions of identity and communication over the next 5 years. Participants suggested ways to be critical of assertions of “post” and elaborated ways to encounter new dimensions of identificatio…
Critical rhetorics of race
Critical
Lines of Flight”
“Lines of Flight”: Reterritorializing Asian American Film and Media Studies Kent A. Ono (bio) The Hypersexuality of Race: Performing Asian/American Women on Screen and Scene. By Celine Parreñas Shimizu. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. 340pages. $94.95(cloth). $25.95(paper). Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Hollywood Cinema. By Jane Chi Hyun Park. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. 255pages. $75(cloth). $25(paper). Racial…
Mad Men’s Postracial Figuration of a Racial Past
Response to ‘constructing the “other”
I appreciate this opportunity to respond to ‘Constructing the “Other”: Construction of Russian Identity in the Discourse of James Bond Films’ (Lawless, 2014), a contribution that I think makes head
Retheorizing Adaptation
After reviewing traditional approaches to the study of immigrant adaptation, we develop a theory of differential adaptation, which suggests that migrants may adapt in a variety of ways that do not necessitate that they acquiesce to larger pressures to assimilate or accommodate the larger society they have joined; moreover, they may change the existing culture and society into which they move. Their experiences are “differential” and require a mor…
Asian Americans
This chapter briefly discusses the history of model minority myth scholarship and explains the expanse and limits of model minority discourse. It examines the contemporary media landscape by exploring how discourse about Asian and Asian-American digital and Internet builders and inventors—specifically the creators and founders of YouTube—relies on model minority imagery even when that image does not directly align. The chapter answers the conundr…
Critical Race Theory
Critical race theory (CRT) is an intellectual movement that seeks to understand how white supremacy as a legal, cultural, and political condition is reproduced and maintained, primarily in the US context. Key to CRT is an emphasis on social change; thus, scholars within CRT not only attempt to understand race and racism but also to remedy their effects. Within the field of communication, CRT has been taken up by only a few scholars; yet CRT's ove…
Global Asian American Popular Cultures
A toolkit for understanding how Asian Americans influence, consume and are reflected by mainstream media. Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints-such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and sriracha hot sauce-have opened up new ways of understanding how the categories of "Asian" and "Asian American" are counterbalanced w…
Rogue Archives
Digital communication has changed society’s collective knowledge. What we know, and what we preserve of what we know, is no longer stored primarily and dependably on paper. While vast repositories of information now exist digitally, as Abigail De Kosnik tells us in Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom, these “archives” of knowledge are fragile nonetheless. Generational revolutions in digital platforms, such as PDFs and jpegs, …
Sociology (20 works) · History (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Art (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Media studies (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Rhetoric and Communication Studies (8 works)