Dorothy B Fujita-Rony
Biographic Data
| ID | 689447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorothy B Fujita-Rony |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorothy B |
| FAMILY NAME | Fujita-Rony |
| SIGNATURE | FUJITA-RONY D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Daughter of a Daughter
This chapter explores how women’s memorykeeping forges integrative possibility, not only physically across islands, oceans, and continents, but also temporally, across decades, empires, and generations. It focuses on how Gerhard L. Tobing and Minar T. Rony organized personal archival collections, and what this tells us about gendered knowledges that cross multiple empires. The chapter investigates how women’s memorykeeping, as well as the details…
The Memorykeepers
Dorothy Fujita-Rony's The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History examines the importance of women's memorykeeping for two Toba Batak women whose twentieth-century histories span Indonesia and the United States, H.L.Tobing and Minar T. Rony. This book addresses the meanings of family stories and artifacts within a gendered and interimperial context, and demonstrates how these knowledges can produce alternate c…
Illuminating Militarized Rupture
This essay argues for the importance of utilizing a framework of militarized rupture in analyzing the cultural narratives that shape the formations and meanings of many Asian American community-based archives. I focus upon four case studies: Aiko and John "Jack" Herzig's collection of U.S. government documents regarding the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans; Fred and Dorothy Cordova's development of the Filipino American National H…
Making the Empire Work
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of…
A Shared Pacific Arena
Asking the Right Questions
David and Marty Montgomery had enormous influence over my life and intellectual work, in ways that I continue to discover on a daily basis. I first heard about David in the early 1980s when I started Yale College because he was well known for being a wonderful lecturer. When I went to college, we were deep in the middle of Reagan's first term as president. Those were conservative times. Many of us undergraduates had no direct memories of the Civi…
Water and Land
What happens when we examine U.S. West history from the vantage point of Asian Americans moving back and forth across the Pacific and consider a perspective shaped by both land and water? This article underscores the importance of the Pacific Ocean as a space for historical inquiry, by addressing the formation and migration of Asian American communities in and around the Pacific, particularly in the context of the considerable military, economic,…
American Workers, Colonial Power
Archiving Histories
Vietnamese American history is deeply contested terrain in American culture, with a significant portion of the American population laying claim to as a site of memories. The decadeslong involvement of the United States in the region, as well as the commitment of massive numbers of American troops, financial resources, and military aid, profoundly shaped the United States' attitude towards Vietnam. Two major results of this intervention were the i…
American Workers, Colonial Power
Illuminating Militarized Rupture
This essay argues for the importance of utilizing a framework of militarized rupture in analyzing the cultural narratives that shape the formations and meanings of many Asian American community-based archives. I focus upon four case studies: Aiko and John "Jack" Herzig's collection of U.S. government documents regarding the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans; Fred and Dorothy Cordova's development of the Filipino American National H…
Water and Land
What happens when we examine U.S. West history from the vantage point of Asian Americans moving back and forth across the Pacific and consider a perspective shaped by both land and water? This article underscores the importance of the Pacific Ocean as a space for historical inquiry, by addressing the formation and migration of Asian American communities in and around the Pacific, particularly in the context of the considerable military, economic,…
American Workers, Colonial Power
Archiving Histories
Vietnamese American history is deeply contested terrain in American culture, with a significant portion of the American population laying claim to as a site of memories. The decadeslong involvement of the United States in the region, as well as the commitment of massive numbers of American troops, financial resources, and military aid, profoundly shaped the United States' attitude towards Vietnam. Two major results of this intervention were the i…
American Workers, Colonial Power
Water and Land
What happens when we examine U.S. West history from the vantage point of Asian Americans moving back and forth across the Pacific and consider a perspective shaped by both land and water? This article underscores the importance of the Pacific Ocean as a space for historical inquiry, by addressing the formation and migration of Asian American communities in and around the Pacific, particularly in the context of the considerable military, economic,…
Asking the Right Questions
David and Marty Montgomery had enormous influence over my life and intellectual work, in ways that I continue to discover on a daily basis. I first heard about David in the early 1980s when I started Yale College because he was well known for being a wonderful lecturer. When I went to college, we were deep in the middle of Reagan's first term as president. Those were conservative times. Many of us undergraduates had no direct memories of the Civi…
A Shared Pacific Arena
Making the Empire Work
Millions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men and women at the center of the long history of the U.S. empire, these essays offer new stories of empire that intersect with the “grand narratives” of…
Illuminating Militarized Rupture
This essay argues for the importance of utilizing a framework of militarized rupture in analyzing the cultural narratives that shape the formations and meanings of many Asian American community-based archives. I focus upon four case studies: Aiko and John "Jack" Herzig's collection of U.S. government documents regarding the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans; Fred and Dorothy Cordova's development of the Filipino American National H…
The Memorykeepers
Dorothy Fujita-Rony's The Memorykeepers: Gendered Knowledges, Empires, and Indonesian American History examines the importance of women's memorykeeping for two Toba Batak women whose twentieth-century histories span Indonesia and the United States, H.L.Tobing and Minar T. Rony. This book addresses the meanings of family stories and artifacts within a gendered and interimperial context, and demonstrates how these knowledges can produce alternate c…
Daughter of a Daughter
This chapter explores how women’s memorykeeping forges integrative possibility, not only physically across islands, oceans, and continents, but also temporally, across decades, empires, and generations. It focuses on how Gerhard L. Tobing and Minar T. Rony organized personal archival collections, and what this tells us about gendered knowledges that cross multiple empires. The chapter investigates how women’s memorykeeping, as well as the details…
History (8 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (6 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (3 works)