Jason Oliver Chang
Biographic Data
| ID | 708509 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Oliver Chang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Chang |
| SIGNATURE | CHANG J O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Commentary
Asian American History and Its Publics
In this forum, a diverse group of scholars and practitioners reflect upon doing work as Asian Americanists with and for non-academic audiences, or various "publics." Their remarks were originally presented at the Organization of American Historians (OAH) meeting in Los Angeles, California in March 2023. The authors' experiences were wide-ranging, from curating museum exhibits to advocating for K-12 curricular reform. Though their journeys as publ…
Walking with Asian American Studies
Walking with Asian American Studies Jason Oliver Chang (bio) January was busy for me. As director of an Asian American studies program, I was prepping a new exhibit on the Filipino nurse diaspora in the University of Connecticut's School of Nursing and getting ready for my spring course on Asian American history. It was at this time that I began learning about the epidemic in Wuhan, China, that would become the COVID-19 pandemic. One of my collab…
Comparative Orientalism in Latin American Revolutions
Across Latin America, mestizo nationalism became a common response to postcolonial independence, revolt, and revolution in the twentieth century. These different mixed-race nationalisms have been the subject of continuous debate in Latin American studies. The field of Asian American studies offers a different approach that highlights the political and cultural function of anti-Chinese politics beyond their targeting of racialized Chinese subjects…
Finding Biopower at Sea
Finding Biopower at Sea Jason Oliver Chang (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. "Ho Yuck and Li Hung Pew, Chinese Sailors, Western Australia." ca 1905. Passey Collection of Photos. State Library of Western Australia, REF#b25438414. Sourced from the collections of the State Library of Western Australia and reproduced with permission of the Library Board of Western Australia. Pictured in this photograph are Ho Yuck and Li Hung…
Chino
This book tells the history of anti-Chinese politics in Mexican culture. It reveals the hidden influence that anti-Chinese racism, or antichinismo, has had on the formation of the revolutionary government and mestizo national identity. The imagined racial figure of Chinese men created a profound impact in Mexican society. The book employs an Asian Americanist critique to evaluate Mexico as a racial state to discuss the political function of antic…
Looking Like the Enemy
Book Review| April 01 2017 Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony. By Jerry García. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2014. xiii + 249 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $50 (cloth). Jason Oliver Chang Jason Oliver Chang University of Connecticut Jason Oliver Chang is Assistant Professor of Asian …
Four Centuries of Imperial Succession in the Comprador Pacific
This article aims to open the discussion of U.S. imperialism and Chinese comprador intermediaries in the Pacific to an enlarged historical analysis of inherited empires. Beginning with the formation of trans-Pacific Spanish commerce and the specialized role of Chinese intermediary commercial brokers, I introduce the notion of the comprador Pacific as a historical framework to understand the succession of imperial states, overlapping racialization…
Cenart (Centro Nacional de Las Artes), written by Alpha Decay III (Decaimiento Alfa 3
Los japoneses en Bolivia
Japanese scholars and Japanese leaders of Bolivia have assembled a groundbreaking community history that spans the entire twentieth century across the country's diverse regions, each with a separate trajectory of Japanese diaspora, settlement, and integration. Originally conceived for a Japanese audience to celebrate more than a century of migration history, this Spanish-language edition was translated with the hope that second- and third-generat…
Unspeakable Violence
This book is an important text for ethnic studies scholars, historians of the Americas, and graduate students in related fields. Unspeakable Violence rewrites selected historical moments in the development of the US-Mexico borderlands through transnational and feminist methodologies. This approach reveals the ways that overlapping nationalist mythologies of race and gender obscure and silence the pain, suffering, and violence enacted upon unruly …
Racial Alterity in the Mestizo Nation
The eviction of Chinese cotton farmers from Mexicali, Baja California serves as a focal point to explore the racial boundaries of dominant discourses of Mexican national identity. By examining the politics of agrarian reform, the article illustrates how the racial alterity of Chinese immigrants to national ideals served to consolidate diverse Mexican peoples as liberal mestizo racial subjects. Racial alterity is further explored by tracing the li…
Racial Alterity in the Mestizo Nation
The eviction of Chinese cotton farmers from Mexicali, Baja California serves as a focal point to explore the racial boundaries of dominant discourses of Mexican national identity. By examining the politics of agrarian reform, the article illustrates how the racial alterity of Chinese immigrants to national ideals served to consolidate diverse Mexican peoples as liberal mestizo racial subjects. Racial alterity is further explored by tracing the li…
Four Centuries of Imperial Succession in the Comprador Pacific
This article aims to open the discussion of U.S. imperialism and Chinese comprador intermediaries in the Pacific to an enlarged historical analysis of inherited empires. Beginning with the formation of trans-Pacific Spanish commerce and the specialized role of Chinese intermediary commercial brokers, I introduce the notion of the comprador Pacific as a historical framework to understand the succession of imperial states, overlapping racialization…
Finding Biopower at Sea
Finding Biopower at Sea Jason Oliver Chang (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. "Ho Yuck and Li Hung Pew, Chinese Sailors, Western Australia." ca 1905. Passey Collection of Photos. State Library of Western Australia, REF#b25438414. Sourced from the collections of the State Library of Western Australia and reproduced with permission of the Library Board of Western Australia. Pictured in this photograph are Ho Yuck and Li Hung…
Racial Alterity in the Mestizo Nation
The eviction of Chinese cotton farmers from Mexicali, Baja California serves as a focal point to explore the racial boundaries of dominant discourses of Mexican national identity. By examining the politics of agrarian reform, the article illustrates how the racial alterity of Chinese immigrants to national ideals served to consolidate diverse Mexican peoples as liberal mestizo racial subjects. Racial alterity is further explored by tracing the li…
Unspeakable Violence
This book is an important text for ethnic studies scholars, historians of the Americas, and graduate students in related fields. Unspeakable Violence rewrites selected historical moments in the development of the US-Mexico borderlands through transnational and feminist methodologies. This approach reveals the ways that overlapping nationalist mythologies of race and gender obscure and silence the pain, suffering, and violence enacted upon unruly …
Los japoneses en Bolivia
Japanese scholars and Japanese leaders of Bolivia have assembled a groundbreaking community history that spans the entire twentieth century across the country's diverse regions, each with a separate trajectory of Japanese diaspora, settlement, and integration. Originally conceived for a Japanese audience to celebrate more than a century of migration history, this Spanish-language edition was translated with the hope that second- and third-generat…
Cenart (Centro Nacional de Las Artes), written by Alpha Decay III (Decaimiento Alfa 3
Chino
This book tells the history of anti-Chinese politics in Mexican culture. It reveals the hidden influence that anti-Chinese racism, or antichinismo, has had on the formation of the revolutionary government and mestizo national identity. The imagined racial figure of Chinese men created a profound impact in Mexican society. The book employs an Asian Americanist critique to evaluate Mexico as a racial state to discuss the political function of antic…
Looking Like the Enemy
Book Review| April 01 2017 Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony Looking Like the Enemy: Japanese Mexicans, the Mexican State, and US Hegemony. By Jerry García. Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2014. xiii + 249 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $50 (cloth). Jason Oliver Chang Jason Oliver Chang University of Connecticut Jason Oliver Chang is Assistant Professor of Asian …
Four Centuries of Imperial Succession in the Comprador Pacific
This article aims to open the discussion of U.S. imperialism and Chinese comprador intermediaries in the Pacific to an enlarged historical analysis of inherited empires. Beginning with the formation of trans-Pacific Spanish commerce and the specialized role of Chinese intermediary commercial brokers, I introduce the notion of the comprador Pacific as a historical framework to understand the succession of imperial states, overlapping racialization…
Comparative Orientalism in Latin American Revolutions
Across Latin America, mestizo nationalism became a common response to postcolonial independence, revolt, and revolution in the twentieth century. These different mixed-race nationalisms have been the subject of continuous debate in Latin American studies. The field of Asian American studies offers a different approach that highlights the political and cultural function of anti-Chinese politics beyond their targeting of racialized Chinese subjects…
Finding Biopower at Sea
Finding Biopower at Sea Jason Oliver Chang (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. "Ho Yuck and Li Hung Pew, Chinese Sailors, Western Australia." ca 1905. Passey Collection of Photos. State Library of Western Australia, REF#b25438414. Sourced from the collections of the State Library of Western Australia and reproduced with permission of the Library Board of Western Australia. Pictured in this photograph are Ho Yuck and Li Hung…
Walking with Asian American Studies
Walking with Asian American Studies Jason Oliver Chang (bio) January was busy for me. As director of an Asian American studies program, I was prepping a new exhibit on the Filipino nurse diaspora in the University of Connecticut's School of Nursing and getting ready for my spring course on Asian American history. It was at this time that I began learning about the epidemic in Wuhan, China, that would become the COVID-19 pandemic. One of my collab…
Asian American History and Its Publics
In this forum, a diverse group of scholars and practitioners reflect upon doing work as Asian Americanists with and for non-academic audiences, or various "publics." Their remarks were originally presented at the Organization of American Historians (OAH) meeting in Los Angeles, California in March 2023. The authors' experiences were wide-ranging, from curating museum exhibits to advocating for K-12 curricular reform. Though their journeys as publ…
Commentary
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · History (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · History (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works)