Sharon Tran
Biographic Data
| ID | 249032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Tran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Tran |
| SIGNATURE | TRAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-2040-0135 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
TikTok as a Tool for Identity Work Among the Hoa Ethnic Community
Popular discourse around race tends to categorize people in static ethnic and racial categories, overlooking the complexity of people with multi-ethnicities. To understand how ethnic communities resist the described practice, this article explores how Hoa communities in English-speaking countries use TikTok for identity work purposes. Using an inductive approach to qualitative content analysis, we identified two prominent themes: hybridization of…
Reclaiming the Korean War Minor: Beyond a Politics of Childhood Innocence
This essay employs the "Korean War minor" as a methodological lens to demonstrate the need for more Asian Americanist critique at the intersection of American childhood studies and empire studies. While scholars have shown how children and children's culture were central to advancing US Cold War policy at home and abroad, this body of research largely neglects to interrogate the centrality of whiteness to dominant constructions of children/childh…
The Delightfully Scatological Humor of Ali Wong: Cringe Comedy and Neoliberal Maternal Discourse
This essay grapples with how Asian American women have been increasingly positioned as the idealized maternal subjects of a neoliberal world order. The “tiger mother,” as popularized by Amy Chua, can be considered a recent gendered, racial formation produced in direct opposition to the “Black welfare mother” as a figure of pathological reproductive excess and dependency. Yet this latest twenty-first-century incarnation of model minority discourse…
Asian Sybils and Stinky Multispecies Assemblages: Ecofeminist Departures for Asian American Studies
This essay reflects on the critical possibilities and stakes of (re)imagining Asian/America as a multispecies formation by analyzing Larissa Lai’s novel, Salt Fish Girl , alongside sybil unrest , her collaborative poem with Rita Wong. Through mobilizing speculative and spectacularized images of the Asian girl, respectively, both texts press us to confront linked human-nonhuman histories of racialization and gendered violence/exploitation. The nov…
Kawaii Asian Girls Save the Day! Animating a Minor Politics of Care
This essay explores the violence and viability of kawaii, a Japanese “cute” aesthetic, for theorizing Asian American feminism. Critics point out kawaii’s embeddedness in visual commodity culture and global racial capitalism, denouncing the multivalent forms of objectification that Asian cutification entails and invites. Through an analysis of the anime Madoka Magica and Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being, this essay demonstrates how the…
P ioneer G irl: A N ovel . By Bich Minh Nguyen
Asian Sybils and Stinky Multispecies Assemblages: Ecofeminist Departures for Asian American Studies
This essay reflects on the critical possibilities and stakes of (re)imagining Asian/America as a multispecies formation by analyzing Larissa Lai’s novel, Salt Fish Girl , alongside sybil unrest , her collaborative poem with Rita Wong. Through mobilizing speculative and spectacularized images of the Asian girl, respectively, both texts press us to confront linked human-nonhuman histories of racialization and gendered violence/exploitation. The nov…
TikTok as a Tool for Identity Work Among the Hoa Ethnic Community
Popular discourse around race tends to categorize people in static ethnic and racial categories, overlooking the complexity of people with multi-ethnicities. To understand how ethnic communities resist the described practice, this article explores how Hoa communities in English-speaking countries use TikTok for identity work purposes. Using an inductive approach to qualitative content analysis, we identified two prominent themes: hybridization of…
The Delightfully Scatological Humor of Ali Wong: Cringe Comedy and Neoliberal Maternal Discourse
This essay grapples with how Asian American women have been increasingly positioned as the idealized maternal subjects of a neoliberal world order. The “tiger mother,” as popularized by Amy Chua, can be considered a recent gendered, racial formation produced in direct opposition to the “Black welfare mother” as a figure of pathological reproductive excess and dependency. Yet this latest twenty-first-century incarnation of model minority discourse…
Kawaii Asian Girls Save the Day! Animating a Minor Politics of Care
This essay explores the violence and viability of kawaii, a Japanese “cute” aesthetic, for theorizing Asian American feminism. Critics point out kawaii’s embeddedness in visual commodity culture and global racial capitalism, denouncing the multivalent forms of objectification that Asian cutification entails and invites. Through an analysis of the anime Madoka Magica and Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being, this essay demonstrates how the…
P ioneer G irl: A N ovel . By Bich Minh Nguyen
Asian Sybils and Stinky Multispecies Assemblages: Ecofeminist Departures for Asian American Studies
This essay reflects on the critical possibilities and stakes of (re)imagining Asian/America as a multispecies formation by analyzing Larissa Lai’s novel, Salt Fish Girl , alongside sybil unrest , her collaborative poem with Rita Wong. Through mobilizing speculative and spectacularized images of the Asian girl, respectively, both texts press us to confront linked human-nonhuman histories of racialization and gendered violence/exploitation. The nov…
Kawaii Asian Girls Save the Day! Animating a Minor Politics of Care
This essay explores the violence and viability of kawaii, a Japanese “cute” aesthetic, for theorizing Asian American feminism. Critics point out kawaii’s embeddedness in visual commodity culture and global racial capitalism, denouncing the multivalent forms of objectification that Asian cutification entails and invites. Through an analysis of the anime Madoka Magica and Ruth Ozeki’s novel A Tale for the Time Being, this essay demonstrates how the…
The Delightfully Scatological Humor of Ali Wong: Cringe Comedy and Neoliberal Maternal Discourse
This essay grapples with how Asian American women have been increasingly positioned as the idealized maternal subjects of a neoliberal world order. The “tiger mother,” as popularized by Amy Chua, can be considered a recent gendered, racial formation produced in direct opposition to the “Black welfare mother” as a figure of pathological reproductive excess and dependency. Yet this latest twenty-first-century incarnation of model minority discourse…
Reclaiming the Korean War Minor: Beyond a Politics of Childhood Innocence
This essay employs the "Korean War minor" as a methodological lens to demonstrate the need for more Asian Americanist critique at the intersection of American childhood studies and empire studies. While scholars have shown how children and children's culture were central to advancing US Cold War policy at home and abroad, this body of research largely neglects to interrogate the centrality of whiteness to dominant constructions of children/childh…
TikTok as a Tool for Identity Work Among the Hoa Ethnic Community
Popular discourse around race tends to categorize people in static ethnic and racial categories, overlooking the complexity of people with multi-ethnicities. To understand how ethnic communities resist the described practice, this article explores how Hoa communities in English-speaking countries use TikTok for identity work purposes. Using an inductive approach to qualitative content analysis, we identified two prominent themes: hybridization of…
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)