Sharon Luk
Biographic Data
| ID | 783424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Luk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon |
| FAMILY NAME | Luk |
| SIGNATURE | LUK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Asian Problem: Back toward an Analysis of the Race Concept in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Modernity's (non)objective character
Ourselves at Stake: Social Reproduction in the Age of Prisons
Research Article| November 01 2018 Ourselves at Stake: Social Reproduction in the Age of Prisons Sharon Luk Sharon Luk University of Oregon, Eugene Sharon Luk is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon, Eugene, and author of The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living beyond Captivity (University of California Press, 2017). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review…
Sea of Fire: A Buddhist Pedagogy of Dying and Black Encounters across Two Waves
This article presents a preliminary sketch of a broader investigation into encounters between “engaged Buddhism” and Black liberation theology in the United States from 1965–1968, motivated by the eventual goal of articulating a different approach toward a politics of death, or what scholars now call “necropolitics,” at this interface. Focusing on a world-transformative dialogue between Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King, Jr., this study begi…
Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity
This book explores the life-worlds sustained through letter correspondence within the evolution of racism and mass incarceration in California history. Across three cases, this investigation uncovers how letter correspondence facilitates a form of communal life for groups targeted for racialized confinement in different phases of development in the U.S. West: “Detained” focuses on migrants from Southern China during peak years of U.S. Chinese Exc…
The Problem of Study: China in American Studies and the Materials of Knowledge
The Problem of Study:China in American Studies and the Materials of Knowledge Sharon Luk (bio) What [the Western nations] had failed to take into account was this: THAT BETWEEN THEM AND CHINA WAS NO COMMON PSYCHOLOGICAL SPEECH. Their thought processes were radically dissimilar. There was no intimate vocabulary. ... There was no way to communicate Western ideas to the Chinese mind. —Jack London, “The Unparalleled Invasion” (1910) Between drafts of…
Ourselves at Stake: Social Reproduction in the Age of Prisons
Research Article| November 01 2018 Ourselves at Stake: Social Reproduction in the Age of Prisons Sharon Luk Sharon Luk University of Oregon, Eugene Sharon Luk is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon, Eugene, and author of The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living beyond Captivity (University of California Press, 2017). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review…
Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living Beyond Captivity
This book explores the life-worlds sustained through letter correspondence within the evolution of racism and mass incarceration in California history. Across three cases, this investigation uncovers how letter correspondence facilitates a form of communal life for groups targeted for racialized confinement in different phases of development in the U.S. West: “Detained” focuses on migrants from Southern China during peak years of U.S. Chinese Exc…
The Problem of Study: China in American Studies and the Materials of Knowledge
The Problem of Study:China in American Studies and the Materials of Knowledge Sharon Luk (bio) What [the Western nations] had failed to take into account was this: THAT BETWEEN THEM AND CHINA WAS NO COMMON PSYCHOLOGICAL SPEECH. Their thought processes were radically dissimilar. There was no intimate vocabulary. ... There was no way to communicate Western ideas to the Chinese mind. —Jack London, “The Unparalleled Invasion” (1910) Between drafts of…
Ourselves at Stake: Social Reproduction in the Age of Prisons
Research Article| November 01 2018 Ourselves at Stake: Social Reproduction in the Age of Prisons Sharon Luk Sharon Luk University of Oregon, Eugene Sharon Luk is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon, Eugene, and author of The Life of Paper: Letters and a Poetics of Living beyond Captivity (University of California Press, 2017). Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review…
Sea of Fire: A Buddhist Pedagogy of Dying and Black Encounters across Two Waves
This article presents a preliminary sketch of a broader investigation into encounters between “engaged Buddhism” and Black liberation theology in the United States from 1965–1968, motivated by the eventual goal of articulating a different approach toward a politics of death, or what scholars now call “necropolitics,” at this interface. Focusing on a world-transformative dialogue between Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King, Jr., this study begi…
Modernity's (non)objective character
The Asian Problem: Back toward an Analysis of the Race Concept in the Era of Black Lives Matter
Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · China (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)