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the voice of the historian of the advocate for these communities but i m not quite that humble man of course academics and scholars get a very special kind of ire from the activisty crowd unless they are one and the same as some marxist revolutionary phds have been known to live out their fantasies by managing and governing nonprofit organizations that they claim espouse those values by finding fault in scholars and their very specific areas of interest and specialization activists in the apa space often deflect similar criticism that could fairly be levied against them privilege disconnect ego distraction from the real community commodification of community struggle for personal profit fame career eccentricity missing the forest for the trees whatever the association for asian american studies aaas is having its 2011 conference on asian american studies the line up of papers and speakers is quite extensive but of course in perusing the titles of some of the work and topics you almost feel like you are at the gateway to a thousand of calvino s invisible cities each more remarkable and unbelievable than the last i don t even understand some of the titles let alone what might be discussed there but does that make what these folks have committed their life work to do wrong i can t really speak to that it was not my path and i have come across some really obtuse community scholars but in the same breath could name some phenomenal scholar activists maybe scholars face a healthy dose of envy to go along with all the other emotions hurled at them it isn t easy living on nonprofit salaries even if some of those lowly staffers don t want to admit that they have other ways to guarantee the standard of living they were expecting before going into nonprofit land read more posted by rage at 5 11 2011 5 comments sticks api heritage may 4 2011 api heritage 2011 post 4 advancing nothing i am so tired of hearing groups use the phrase advancing justice or advancing equality as their catch phrase for what they do in the social justice space in asian america this equates to towing the model minority line speak in your turn don t ask for anything more than the bigger children and be polite about the crumbs you get i don t get the good enough mentality the assumed role of these groups and individuals as brokers who deal away the maximum benefits that the community can hope for in their low level policy meetings to show that we know how to sacrifice so please give us this little thing is just sickening they have no power but they still have more opportunity than any of the real folks who they claim to represent our community needs more than piddling advancement of rights and pushback on the attacks against us we need folks who know how and are willing to use all the pieces on the board not just be the pawns we need a peoples agenda read more posted by rage at 5 04 2011 0 comments sticks api heritage bottom up stupid may 3 2011 api heritage 2011 post 3 vapors of community in asian american studies asian america i like to say is on the fringe of a margin in american public consciousness and life the big open secret is that it is hardly in the consciousness of most asian americans which in a way is very different from all other major communities of color in the united states african americans despite the systematic dismantling of the leadership and heart of the community over the decades still have a shared history of slavery the fight for freedom and the many struggles for equality and self determination even though they do not comport cleanly with the narrative put forward by american mainstream at least these histories and stories are in some imperfect way part of the american consciousness and most definitely part of the african american experience there is power and strength in that for native americans even if all members of the tribes do not believe in the militancy of some groups like aim nor do they all have the same experience there is knowledge and deep understanding about their position as peoples struggling and charting their paths in and around modern america latinos have a range of experiences that have to compete with the master narrative of the long and more complicated one that the mexican american community has but uniform and non particular anti immigrant sentiment has given at least some common history of struggle to these communities think about it activism history anything that binds individuals their actions and their accomplishments for self and community together into some kind of narrative is not part of the shared knowledge or orientation to the community that most asian americans have we hang onto the vapors of a movement that seems eons old and in a coalition community that has changed in so many ways since the early 70s i wonder if it would even be possible to create something coherent and useful as a movement moving forward it is a lot of work to be conscious and try to quilt together any kind of meaningful narrative for apas in a lot of ways we are more a community without much of a history than one with a long deep history as is often posited by the canonical discourse of apa studies and others who need that narrative to exist for them to have jobs and some meaning to their choice of work one could argue that asian america as it could exist has only lived in our imaginations and in the rare arts and organizing spaces over the past 10 15 years including informal arts spaces deliberate cultural work and college campuses it s not too far to say that asian america is often better formed and represented in the student movements to create the programs than in the eventual programs themselves why because the folks who can lead these programs have often had to trim down their understanding and scope of engagement with communities in a very specific way to get through the academic obstacle course and be credentialed enough to stand up and be counted for a position leading a fringe program that most departments don t believe in add to that the myopia that is almost inherent in academia and is perhaps more present still in asian american studies and the fact that many of these folks are not practitioners or when they were as students or young community workers there was little in common with now and you end up with very limited understanding of what is needed and representative now students pushing for apa studies eventually feel that they don t have a connection to what happens once a program is created and the program is not engaged enough with the students to understand what they were hoping for the programs are not only cut off from the communities that had once demanded ethnic studies but they are actually often cut off from the activist students at the same campus who have inherited the framework from their organizational ancestors and feel confused hurt shut out from their vision of an inclusive and representative program where they could finally see themselves in the curriculum what a sad state of affairs read more posted by rage at 5 03 2011 1 comments sticks api heritage school daze may 2 2011 api heritage 2011 post 2 osama bin laden and asian america most non desi or non arab asian americanists would either downplay or completely miss the relevance of the title of this piece with the kick off of our month we get the news that osama bin laden was killed by a covert special operation by the u s military i haven t spoken with asian americanists around the nation i don t know what people are thinking perhaps people are out in the streets partying like some of mainstream america murder is not my choice cause for celebrations perhaps they are indifferent but most of conscious and progressive south asian america is not doing that people are worried scared unclear on what this means realizing that the global is the personal again and might become even more and very directly so if things go the way people are bracing for last night soon after the news broke i received a series of text messages from a pakistani american friend with whom i have had an ongoing dialogue about how complicated community politics are and how lacking mainstream and even ally efforts to speak to or gloss over these issues can be the friend was troubled by the blood lust and very conscious of the geopolitical ramifications of the details as they were being released it is not good for pakistani americans that he was found far from the caves in the north west frontier province bordering afghanistan where he was rumored to be this is all complicated by the mounting pressure in pakistan to understand the role of the central government and domestic intelligence agency in this as well as assert sovereignty despite what seems like collusion to u s state sponsored terrorism in their own land meanwhile india is faithfully rattling the harboring and assisting argument to garner a better foothold in the face of its arch rival s dominant strategic position in the everwar against terrorism i suppose you can try to argue that that is over there politics that should not trouble us so much as americans with the lines in the sand drawn by traditional asian americanists removed from the internationalist and radical roots of the asian american movement against transnational concerns however that is not the reality for south asians in the united states our communities are inextricably linked and tuned into homeland politics culture and changes in a way that feels different from many other communities in asian america and besides this news has real world impact for south asian american community work as well as the internal politics and neo nationalism flare up in migrant communities when things at this scale happen and of course there is tremendous fear of backlash reprisal or copycat attacks in the u s and unending suspicion from the thin strata of americans who can discern the difference between pakistani americans and their amorphous global enemy in the war on terror fb status messages of be careful and best to stay inside made their way on many of my sikh and muslim friends pages while our compatriots celebrate we have to take cover for fear that their rejoicing could end up in an accident with our name buried below the non ironic headline with words like unfortunate and mistake rather than murder or innocent does mainstream asian america see or realize any of this shouldn t it read more posted by rage at 5 02 2011 0 comments sticks api heritage global south asian american may 1 2011 api heritage 2011 post 1 again yeah i m back this month two years later i guess there s something compelling like a train wreck about revisiting a place that i abandoned and making the commitment to try to write here once a day for the whole month i find it a useful exercise to see if i can sustain clearly i was not able to do that the first time i tried to write a daily post in honor of asian pacific american heritage month i read something and it reminds me of this space i see some folks still rolling out the same tired stories and snapshots of history as the whole of our community s existence and it makes me think of this space more than add to the noise i want to hear and share stories here s an example of someone doing that through photos and long form interviews the community s voices are far more important than ours that said i ll see what i can do to make this year interesting read more posted by rage at 5 01 2011 0 comments sticks api heritage apr 22 2011 ambition i ve seldom thought of my gigs as parts of a career as such i don t really think out my next move as much as most people from my peer group seem to do i m here i m trying to do the best i can something happens and i move on but it takes me a while i m not afraid of change just not planning for it in short intervals i am fast approaching an age where i can t think of myself as young anymore it is a little shocking you live with yourself from day to day and know there are changes but when you take the long view backward you realize 20 years have gone by since this or that memory this means that it s time to think more about what i want the rest of my time in this work to look like i suppose but for me i m ready to have people with a deeper skill set and the requisite love for the community take leadership and move the conversation forward i m not going anywhere but i don t have delusions of being the next greatest anything i think it s freeing actually suspending the ego and ambition as best we can without sacrificing drive and passion for the work might be the only way to grow old in work such as this i much better understand the idea that many have put forward about a shift in priorities when you have a child at this point while it s not true that nothing else matters or that my passion for some of the work is still strong i feel a different sense of purpose when i m conscious about the role i play for this little one there will be a hundred amazing organizers writers lawyers workers who i can look at and say if i did something or many things differently perhaps i could have achieved what they did or will but my little boy will only have one father however i play that role and that s quite a difference striving to be better than the best in everything in the outside world or striving to be the best you can which is all your little one will know inside your unit read more posted by rage at 4 22 2011 0 comments sticks family the death of so called political power they want our land wapost a 1 story today talks about the dilution of black influence majority districts with black flight sweep out of urban centers around the nation all this talk about gentrification and the future of chocolate cities doesn t take into account the human element african americans especially but also jews chinese communities and a range of others have a history of being restricted from living where they choose later or directly as a result choosing to create their own communities then they began losing those communities through class segregation celebrated as integration when people left the city for affluent suburbs new valuation of the land they settled on as populations shifted and center city became a target with cross hairs on their properties witness chinatowns throughout this land generations of new immigrants bought the american dream of integration and suburbia while turning away from co ethnic cohesion that protected their predecessors amidst such animosity not to mention the fact that people aren t stupid it is clear that some communities get better services better schools better quality of life those are places that are integrated read less than 30 poc and that means the enclaves aren t where it s at the cynicism realism is that people of color with the privilege of mobility have to go to where the good stuff is at because it s not going to come to our people and we re not going to be able to create it 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