Title: Chinese American? American Chinese? Community Building as Subject Making
Abstract: This chapter brings us to the identity politics of Asian Americans, specifically that of Chinese Americans.1 The cultural hybridity that the postcolonial subject inherits, as I discuss in the preceding chapter, is first and foremost imposed by foreign powers. The post first-generation immigrant's sense of cultural origin may be more ambiguous than that of the postcolonial subject's; nevertheless, both must confront how cultural hybridization brings about the impetus to wrestle with authenticity. But the geopolitical and social conditions under which the two hybridized subjects negotiate their cultural origin and cultural hybridity are drastically different.KeywordsEthnic IdentityCultural IdentityChinese CultureCommunity BuildingChinese ClassicThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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