I Am Asian
Kurdish Diasporas, Interconnected Racial Geographies, and Asian America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stanley Thangaraj, Stanley Ilango Thangaraj (0000-0001-8193-1744, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 167-173 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1096-8598 • E-ISSN: 1097-2129 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jaas.2023.a901065 |
| OpenAlex | W4383372607 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Kurdish communities are often imagined through Area Studies frameworks and their Western colonial afterlives that refuse a fuller engagement with forms of self-identification. In this poem, I bring together ethnographic data and the voices of my Kurdish interlocutors in Nashville, TN; New York City, NY; Connecticut; Rhode Island; New Jersey; and Massachusetts to imagine and reimagine South West Asia and North Africa as part of Asian American Studies. Through this poem, I foreground the ways that Kurdish diasporas refuse colonial, imperial, and academic racial geographies and offer their own geographies that illuminate their self-identification as Asian and the various intimacies and connections they have with Asia, Asian America and communities of color
Archaeology · Art · Asian americans · Asian studies · China · Colonialism · Diaspora · East Asia · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Identification (biology · Poetry · Sociology · South asia · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |