A Cross-Boundary Dialogue in Need

Racial, Ethnic, or Folk Groups

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ID2800527
AutoresJuwen Zhang (0000-0002-5647-5983, juwen zhang is Professor of Chinese Studies and Global Cultural Studies at Willamette University), Wanda G Addison (wanda g. addison is Chair of the Department of Arts and Humanities and Professor of English at National University), Margaret Magat (margaret magat is affiliated with the Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies, University of California, Davis, Asian American Studies), Mark Y Miyake (mark y. miyake is Associate Professor of Music and Society at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies at Western Washington University), Raymond Summerville (raymond summerville is Professor of English at Fayetteville State University), Anthony Bak Buccitelli (anthony bak buccitelli is Associate Professor of American Studies and the director of the Pennsylvania Center for Folklore at the Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg)
Ano2023
Volume136
Fascículo542
Páginas433-452
Data de publicação2023-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of American Folklore (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882
EditoraUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/15351882.136.542.04
OpenAlexW4388524764
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas36

As we enter the twenty-first century, reflexive approaches to the history of folklore studies around the world, along with the antiracist and decolonizing efforts in academic studies in general, have led to a series of paradigmatic shifts away from the Eurocentric systems of defining genre, folk, racial group, and identity. What remains to be essential, yet to be fully subverted, is the concept and practice of "racial/ethnic groups" that is still used by folklorists in studying folklores in cultural groups. Continuously drawing the boundaries through the concept of "race" is nothing but reinforcing the existing racist system. Unless we build dialogues across the existing "racial" boundaries and seek new common terms and concepts, we are not able to make progress in understanding and accepting the nature and reality of our hybridized folklore traditions that inform the folk groups that we are in, as well as our own personal identities. It is with this premise that the authors contributing to this piece initiate this cross-boundary dialogue, expecting to inspire more people to join in

Aesthetics · Art · Boundary (topology) · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Folklore · Identity (music) · Nothing · Premise · Race (biology) · Racism · Sociology · Anthropology · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Gender Studies · Music History and Culture · Philosophy