Grace Kyungwon Hong
Biographic Data
| ID | 354739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Grace Kyungwon Hong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Grace Kyungwon |
| FAMILY NAME | Hong |
| SIGNATURE | HONG G K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Understanding' Asians: Anti-Asian Racism, Sentimentality, Sentiment Analysis, and Digital Surveillance
Cold War Ruins: A Forum
The grammar of failure: Dispossession, Mourning, and the Afterlife of Socialist Futurities
This essay takes up the incommensurate but connected afterlives of the socialist visions cultivated by anti-colonial and radical revolutionary movements in Vietnam and the USA. The most significant period of American-–Vietnamese entanglement, the Vietnam War, occasioned socialist visions with seemingly opposite results: while in Vietnam, revolutionary socialism ‘succeeded’ in capturing the state, in the USA, Left movements were brutally crushed, …
Speculative Surplus
This essay deals with representations of a global, mobile Asian capitalist class as a particularly twenty-first-century incarnation of Model Minority discourse to ask what historical and epistemological erasures are required for this particular version of Model Minority discourse to exist. It does so through what may seem to be an unusual set of objects: the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy of books. The popular, middle-brow appeal of Crazy Rich Asians …
Comparison and Coalition in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Comparison and Coalition in the Age of Black Lives Matter Grace Kyungwon Hong (bio) Ironically, or perhaps fittingly, I began writing this on November 9, the day after the troubling election night that proved to be a testament to the resilience of white racist fear and entitlement, as well as a shift (in the United States, one that happened much earlier in other places in the world) from the reigning governmentality of neoliberal multiculturalism…
Death beyond disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference
Neoliberalism
Existentially Surplus
Through readings of Cherríe Moraga's book of poetry and prose The Last Generation and memoir Waiting in the Wings, this essay argues that Moraga's refusal to ascribe to any notion of ideological or political purity-whether normative or queer-regarding reproductive sexuality indexes the dual nature of racialized, gendered, and sexualized power in the contemporary moment. That is, Moraga's complex identifications as butch and mother, queer and nati…
The Sexual and Racial Contradictions of Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism has been defined as the shift back to a free market approach to economic governance, championed most famously by Milton Freeman and the “Chicago School” of economics in the 1970s, a s
Fun with Death and Dismemberment: Irony, Farce, and the Limits of Nationalism in Oscar Zeta Acosta’s The Revolt of the Cockroach People and Ana Castillo’s So Far from God
Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization
T his book emerged from a desire to identify and invent analytics through which to compare racial formations, in distinction to comparative race scholarship that simply parallels instances of historical similarity across racial groups in the United States.Such a project entails not only articulating commonalities between communities of color but imagining alternative modes of coalition beyond prior models of racial or ethnic solidarity based on a…
The Future of Our Worlds
Taking as its point of departure an essay published in 1994 by renowned Black feminist Barbara Christian, this paper examines the U.S. university as a crucial site for contemporary transnational capital's management of race. The university adapts to the new demands of a globalized economy in at least two distinct but related ways. One is certainly in relation to issues of demography and access; in the deindustrializing economy of the United State…
The Ghosts of Transnational American Studies: A Response to the Presidential Address
The Ghosts of Transnational American Studies:A Response to the Presidential Address Grace Kyungwon Hong (bio) I imagine this response to Emory Elliott's presidential address as truly and literally a "response." In his address, Elliott poses a number of questions, both explicitly and implicitly, and I now take the opportunity to try to answer some of them myself. My thoughts will most likely intersect with Elliott's, but it is also my hope that I …
The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor
A Shared Queerness
A passage from Shani Mootoo's 1996 novel Cereus Blooms at Ni^ht demonstrates the author's fascination with flora, fauna, and the language of natural history: At first, Hexapoda, Gastropoda, and Reptilia burrowed instinctively into nooks and crevices. They realized eventually that they had no cause to hide. Mala permitted them to boldly and to multiply at leisure throughout her property (Mootoo 1996, 128). The main character of this novel, Mala Ra…
Past Legacies, Future Projects: Asian Migration and the Role of the University under Globalization
Past Legacies, Future Projects:Asian Migration and the Role of the University under Globalization Grace Kyungwon Hong1 (bio) Orientations: Mapping the Asian Diaspora. Ed. Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization. Ed. Hu-DeHartEvelyn. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. Grace Kyungwon Hong Princeton University Grace Kyungwon Hong Grace Kyungwon Hong is…
The Limits of the Nation-State, The Possibilities of Asian American Literature
Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent. By David Leiwei Li. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998. 261 pages. $45.00. THE 1996 PUBLICATION OF LISA LOWE'S MONUMENTAL WORK, IMMIGRANT ACTS, profoundly reconfigured the terms of Asian American literary and cultural studies in its theorization of the relationship between the state, capital, and culture. 1 In particular, Lowe's book made an engagement with E…
Existentially Surplus
Through readings of Cherríe Moraga's book of poetry and prose The Last Generation and memoir Waiting in the Wings, this essay argues that Moraga's refusal to ascribe to any notion of ideological or political purity-whether normative or queer-regarding reproductive sexuality indexes the dual nature of racialized, gendered, and sexualized power in the contemporary moment. That is, Moraga's complex identifications as butch and mother, queer and nati…
The Sexual and Racial Contradictions of Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism has been defined as the shift back to a free market approach to economic governance, championed most famously by Milton Freeman and the “Chicago School” of economics in the 1970s, a s
The Future of Our Worlds
Taking as its point of departure an essay published in 1994 by renowned Black feminist Barbara Christian, this paper examines the U.S. university as a crucial site for contemporary transnational capital's management of race. The university adapts to the new demands of a globalized economy in at least two distinct but related ways. One is certainly in relation to issues of demography and access; in the deindustrializing economy of the United State…
Speculative Surplus
This essay deals with representations of a global, mobile Asian capitalist class as a particularly twenty-first-century incarnation of Model Minority discourse to ask what historical and epistemological erasures are required for this particular version of Model Minority discourse to exist. It does so through what may seem to be an unusual set of objects: the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy of books. The popular, middle-brow appeal of Crazy Rich Asians …
Comparison and Coalition in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Comparison and Coalition in the Age of Black Lives Matter Grace Kyungwon Hong (bio) Ironically, or perhaps fittingly, I began writing this on November 9, the day after the troubling election night that proved to be a testament to the resilience of white racist fear and entitlement, as well as a shift (in the United States, one that happened much earlier in other places in the world) from the reigning governmentality of neoliberal multiculturalism…
A Shared Queerness
A passage from Shani Mootoo's 1996 novel Cereus Blooms at Ni^ht demonstrates the author's fascination with flora, fauna, and the language of natural history: At first, Hexapoda, Gastropoda, and Reptilia burrowed instinctively into nooks and crevices. They realized eventually that they had no cause to hide. Mala permitted them to boldly and to multiply at leisure throughout her property (Mootoo 1996, 128). The main character of this novel, Mala Ra…
The grammar of failure: Dispossession, Mourning, and the Afterlife of Socialist Futurities
This essay takes up the incommensurate but connected afterlives of the socialist visions cultivated by anti-colonial and radical revolutionary movements in Vietnam and the USA. The most significant period of American-–Vietnamese entanglement, the Vietnam War, occasioned socialist visions with seemingly opposite results: while in Vietnam, revolutionary socialism ‘succeeded’ in capturing the state, in the USA, Left movements were brutally crushed, …
The Ghosts of Transnational American Studies: A Response to the Presidential Address
The Ghosts of Transnational American Studies:A Response to the Presidential Address Grace Kyungwon Hong (bio) I imagine this response to Emory Elliott's presidential address as truly and literally a "response." In his address, Elliott poses a number of questions, both explicitly and implicitly, and I now take the opportunity to try to answer some of them myself. My thoughts will most likely intersect with Elliott's, but it is also my hope that I …
Neoliberalism
The Limits of the Nation-State, The Possibilities of Asian American Literature
Imagining the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent. By David Leiwei Li. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1998. 261 pages. $45.00. THE 1996 PUBLICATION OF LISA LOWE'S MONUMENTAL WORK, IMMIGRANT ACTS, profoundly reconfigured the terms of Asian American literary and cultural studies in its theorization of the relationship between the state, capital, and culture. 1 In particular, Lowe's book made an engagement with E…
Past Legacies, Future Projects: Asian Migration and the Role of the University under Globalization
Past Legacies, Future Projects:Asian Migration and the Role of the University under Globalization Grace Kyungwon Hong1 (bio) Orientations: Mapping the Asian Diaspora. Ed. Kandice Chuh and Karen Shimakawa. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. Across the Pacific: Asian Americans and Globalization. Ed. Hu-DeHartEvelyn. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. Grace Kyungwon Hong Princeton University Grace Kyungwon Hong Grace Kyungwon Hong is…
The Ruptures of American Capital: Women of Color Feminism and the Culture of Immigrant Labor
A Shared Queerness
A passage from Shani Mootoo's 1996 novel Cereus Blooms at Ni^ht demonstrates the author's fascination with flora, fauna, and the language of natural history: At first, Hexapoda, Gastropoda, and Reptilia burrowed instinctively into nooks and crevices. They realized eventually that they had no cause to hide. Mala permitted them to boldly and to multiply at leisure throughout her property (Mootoo 1996, 128). The main character of this novel, Mala Ra…
The Ghosts of Transnational American Studies: A Response to the Presidential Address
The Ghosts of Transnational American Studies:A Response to the Presidential Address Grace Kyungwon Hong (bio) I imagine this response to Emory Elliott's presidential address as truly and literally a "response." In his address, Elliott poses a number of questions, both explicitly and implicitly, and I now take the opportunity to try to answer some of them myself. My thoughts will most likely intersect with Elliott's, but it is also my hope that I …
The Future of Our Worlds
Taking as its point of departure an essay published in 1994 by renowned Black feminist Barbara Christian, this paper examines the U.S. university as a crucial site for contemporary transnational capital's management of race. The university adapts to the new demands of a globalized economy in at least two distinct but related ways. One is certainly in relation to issues of demography and access; in the deindustrializing economy of the United State…
Fun with Death and Dismemberment: Irony, Farce, and the Limits of Nationalism in Oscar Zeta Acosta’s The Revolt of the Cockroach People and Ana Castillo’s So Far from God
Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization
T his book emerged from a desire to identify and invent analytics through which to compare racial formations, in distinction to comparative race scholarship that simply parallels instances of historical similarity across racial groups in the United States.Such a project entails not only articulating commonalities between communities of color but imagining alternative modes of coalition beyond prior models of racial or ethnic solidarity based on a…
Existentially Surplus
Through readings of Cherríe Moraga's book of poetry and prose The Last Generation and memoir Waiting in the Wings, this essay argues that Moraga's refusal to ascribe to any notion of ideological or political purity-whether normative or queer-regarding reproductive sexuality indexes the dual nature of racialized, gendered, and sexualized power in the contemporary moment. That is, Moraga's complex identifications as butch and mother, queer and nati…
The Sexual and Racial Contradictions of Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism has been defined as the shift back to a free market approach to economic governance, championed most famously by Milton Freeman and the “Chicago School” of economics in the 1970s, a s
Death beyond disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference
Neoliberalism
Comparison and Coalition in the Age of Black Lives Matter
Comparison and Coalition in the Age of Black Lives Matter Grace Kyungwon Hong (bio) Ironically, or perhaps fittingly, I began writing this on November 9, the day after the troubling election night that proved to be a testament to the resilience of white racist fear and entitlement, as well as a shift (in the United States, one that happened much earlier in other places in the world) from the reigning governmentality of neoliberal multiculturalism…
Cold War Ruins: A Forum
The grammar of failure: Dispossession, Mourning, and the Afterlife of Socialist Futurities
This essay takes up the incommensurate but connected afterlives of the socialist visions cultivated by anti-colonial and radical revolutionary movements in Vietnam and the USA. The most significant period of American-–Vietnamese entanglement, the Vietnam War, occasioned socialist visions with seemingly opposite results: while in Vietnam, revolutionary socialism ‘succeeded’ in capturing the state, in the USA, Left movements were brutally crushed, …
Speculative Surplus
This essay deals with representations of a global, mobile Asian capitalist class as a particularly twenty-first-century incarnation of Model Minority discourse to ask what historical and epistemological erasures are required for this particular version of Model Minority discourse to exist. It does so through what may seem to be an unusual set of objects: the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy of books. The popular, middle-brow appeal of Crazy Rich Asians …
Understanding' Asians: Anti-Asian Racism, Sentimentality, Sentiment Analysis, and Digital Surveillance
Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · History (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Race, History, and American Society (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works)