Victor Bascara
Biographic Data
| ID | 811686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Bascara |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Bascara |
| SIGNATURE | BASCARA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victor Bascara is an associate professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Departures
Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds. It also provides examples o…
Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930-1965
This volume is devoted to Asian American Literature between 1930 to 1965, a period of immense social, historical, and cultural transformations that continue to shape the conditions of our world. From the Great Depression to the Second World War to the Civil Rights Movement to landmark immigrations reforms, Asian American literature provides unique and insightful perspectives on these historical developments, all while creatively engaging with glo…
Techno-Orientalism
What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas , the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in literary, cinematic, and new media representation…
Filipino Studies
After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora. Traversing issues of colonialism, neoliberalism, globalization, and nationalism, this vo…
Legitimizing Empire
Immigrant goes to America, / Many hellos in America;/Nobody knows in America / Puerto Rico's in America!” This chorus from the original 1957 stage version of West Side Story, sung—and brilliantly danced to—by Anita (Chita Rivera) and the Shark Girls on a New York city rooftop, offers a cogent critique of U.S. empire, particularly its exceptionalism and concomitant amnesia. This critique is not limited to Puerto Rico. Locations from Guam to the Pa…
A Spot of Pleasure and Importance
Book Review| October 01 2015 “A Spot of Pleasure and Importance”: Jazz as Contact Zone Imperial Blues: Geographies of Race and Sex in Jazz Age New York. Ngô, Fiona I. B.. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. 280 pp. Victor Bascara Victor Bascara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2015) 21 (4): 667–669. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3123737 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permiss…
New Empire, Same Old University?
This chapter focuses on possible linkages among the diverse institutional histories of the University of Hawai'i, the University of Puerto Rico, and the University of the Philippines—all universities founded under U.S. administration of island colonies, or colony-like possessions, between 1903 and 1908. It then provides a consideration of discursive formations from these universities which grapple with the meaning of the new imperial university—a…
Adaptation and Its Discontents
The guest editors' introduction essay examines the relationship between Asian American Studies and Platform Studies. It summarizes how the collection's essays explore different platforms, including art, video gaming, and music, from the perspective of Asian American Studies
God’s Arbiters
Book Review| March 01 2014 God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and US Imperialism in the Philippines God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902. By Harris, Susan K.. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2011. xii, 257 pp.$35.00.Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and US Imperialism in the Philippines. By Wesling, Meg. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2011. xii, 236 pp. Paper, $21.00. …
Strange Affinities
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 Decolonized Eye
Journal Article The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance. Sarita Echavez See. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xxxiv + 210 pages. $75.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. Get access The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance. Sarita Echavez See. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xxxiv + 210 pages. $75.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. Victor Bascara Victor Bascara University of California, Los Angeles S…
The Interethnic Imagination
Book Review| June 01 2011 The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction; The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies: Autonomy and Representation in the University The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction. By Caroline Rody. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xx, 196 pp. $65.00.The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies: Autonomy and Representation in th…
American Tropics
The Case of the Disappearing Filipino American Houseboy
Zigging and Zagging Across Temporal and Textual Realms
zigging and zagging across temporal and textual realms": On Writing Histories of the Philippines in American Studies Reviewed by Victor Bascara Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals. By Augusto Fauni Espiritu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. 336 pages. $65.00 (cloth). $24.95 (paper). The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines. By Vicente L. Ra…
Up from Benevolent Assimilation
Journal Article Up from the Benevolent Assimilation: At Home with the Manongs of Bievenido Santos Get access Victor Bascara Victor Bascara 1University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 29, Issue 1, March 2004, Pages 61–78, https://doi.org/10.2307/4141795 Published: 01 March 2004
Filipino Studies
After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora. Traversing issues of colonialism, neoliberalism, globalization, and nationalism, this vo…
Adaptation and Its Discontents
The guest editors' introduction essay examines the relationship between Asian American Studies and Platform Studies. It summarizes how the collection's essays explore different platforms, including art, video gaming, and music, from the perspective of Asian American Studies
Zigging and Zagging Across Temporal and Textual Realms
zigging and zagging across temporal and textual realms": On Writing Histories of the Philippines in American Studies Reviewed by Victor Bascara Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals. By Augusto Fauni Espiritu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. 336 pages. $65.00 (cloth). $24.95 (paper). The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines. By Vicente L. Ra…
Up from Benevolent Assimilation
Journal Article Up from the Benevolent Assimilation: At Home with the Manongs of Bievenido Santos Get access Victor Bascara Victor Bascara 1University of Wisconsin-Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 29, Issue 1, March 2004, Pages 61–78, https://doi.org/10.2307/4141795 Published: 01 March 2004
Zigging and Zagging Across Temporal and Textual Realms
zigging and zagging across temporal and textual realms": On Writing Histories of the Philippines in American Studies Reviewed by Victor Bascara Five Faces of Exile: The Nation and Filipino American Intellectuals. By Augusto Fauni Espiritu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005. 336 pages. $65.00 (cloth). $24.95 (paper). The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines. By Vicente L. Ra…
American Tropics
The Case of the Disappearing Filipino American Houseboy
Strange Affinities
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 Decolonized Eye
Journal Article The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance. Sarita Echavez See. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xxxiv + 210 pages. $75.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. Get access The Decolonized Eye: Filipino American Art and Performance. Sarita Echavez See. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xxxiv + 210 pages. $75.00 cloth; $25.00 paper. Victor Bascara Victor Bascara University of California, Los Angeles S…
The Interethnic Imagination
Book Review| June 01 2011 The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction; The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies: Autonomy and Representation in the University The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction. By Caroline Rody. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2009. xx, 196 pp. $65.00.The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies: Autonomy and Representation in th…
New Empire, Same Old University?
This chapter focuses on possible linkages among the diverse institutional histories of the University of Hawai'i, the University of Puerto Rico, and the University of the Philippines—all universities founded under U.S. administration of island colonies, or colony-like possessions, between 1903 and 1908. It then provides a consideration of discursive formations from these universities which grapple with the meaning of the new imperial university—a…
Adaptation and Its Discontents
The guest editors' introduction essay examines the relationship between Asian American Studies and Platform Studies. It summarizes how the collection's essays explore different platforms, including art, video gaming, and music, from the perspective of Asian American Studies
God’s Arbiters
Book Review| March 01 2014 God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and US Imperialism in the Philippines God’s Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902. By Harris, Susan K.. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2011. xii, 257 pp.$35.00.Empire’s Proxy: American Literature and US Imperialism in the Philippines. By Wesling, Meg. New York: New York Univ. Press. 2011. xii, 236 pp. Paper, $21.00. …
A Spot of Pleasure and Importance
Book Review| October 01 2015 “A Spot of Pleasure and Importance”: Jazz as Contact Zone Imperial Blues: Geographies of Race and Sex in Jazz Age New York. Ngô, Fiona I. B.. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. 280 pp. Victor Bascara Victor Bascara Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2015) 21 (4): 667–669. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3123737 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permiss…
Filipino Studies
After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political, and economic state of the Philippines and its diaspora. Traversing issues of colonialism, neoliberalism, globalization, and nationalism, this vo…
Legitimizing Empire
Immigrant goes to America, / Many hellos in America;/Nobody knows in America / Puerto Rico's in America!” This chorus from the original 1957 stage version of West Side Story, sung—and brilliantly danced to—by Anita (Chita Rivera) and the Shark Girls on a New York city rooftop, offers a cogent critique of U.S. empire, particularly its exceptionalism and concomitant amnesia. This critique is not limited to Puerto Rico. Locations from Guam to the Pa…
Techno-Orientalism
What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas , the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in literary, cinematic, and new media representation…
Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930-1965
This volume is devoted to Asian American Literature between 1930 to 1965, a period of immense social, historical, and cultural transformations that continue to shape the conditions of our world. From the Great Depression to the Second World War to the Civil Rights Movement to landmark immigrations reforms, Asian American literature provides unique and insightful perspectives on these historical developments, all while creatively engaging with glo…
Departures
Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and complicated lived worlds. It also provides examples o…
Sociology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philippine History and Culture (5 works) · Politics (5 works)