Impossible Politics
Grounded Optics of Chinese Restaurant Life from Chinese Immigrant Hip-Hop Videos
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12469262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tommy Wu (0000-0002-8599-060X, corresponding author), K Harvey (0000-0003-2117-6278) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 289-312 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| 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.2025.a967897 |
| OpenAlex | W4413197585 |
| Language | EN |
What is the significance of Chinese immigrants making hiphop YouTube videos to tell stories of their working lives in the US? This article examines three non-commercialized hip-hop videos made by Chinese immigrants to elucidate class, gender, and racial dynamics within the Chinese restaurant industry that are largely invisible to the public. These dynamics reveal many contradictions and ambiguities that do not fit neatly in normative American politics, thus culminating into a condition of impossibility . This condition makes it difficult, if not impossible, to conceive how Chinese immigrants can move forward in broader struggles for socio-economic justice
Aesthetics · Art · China · Chinese americans · Immigration · Impossibility · Media studies · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Music History and Culture · Race, History, and American Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |