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Making Home

Making Home. Cultural politics and En-gendering identities. American Son. What does it mean in the novel to be an “American Son”? Paradox  benevolent assimilation versus domestic processes of racialization Symbolism of absentee father “We are here because you were there”

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Making Home

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  1. Making Home Cultural politics and En-gendering identities

  2. American Son • What does it mean in the novel to be an “American Son”? • Paradox  benevolent assimilation versus domestic processes of racialization • Symbolism of absentee father • “We are here because you were there” • Intersectionality of racialization • National belonging  racialization  gendering  sexualization • US  whiteness  properly heteronormative & masculine • Philippine  browness  savage, primitive, emasculated

  3. EN-GENDERING IDENTITIES • American Son - Performance of “Chicano hypermasculinity” as survival strategy • Not dismantling racist/patriarchal system but attempting to beat it • In the aodai beauty pageants, how is Vietnamese femininity performed? And for what purpose?

  4. Woman & Nation • Woman’s body as synecdoche of national body • Synecdoche – when a part comes to symbolize a whole • Possession of woman’s body & possession of land • Examples: Miss Lien & Ika • Interlocking systems of colonial/militarized domination and patriarchal domination • Woman as bearer of national culture & reproducer of nation • Protection of women parallels protection of land – anticolonial yet patriarchal nationalisms • Burden of women as symbol of national & cultural purity

  5. Cultural Politics & Imaging National Identities • What is “cultural politics”? • culture (n) – the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterize an institution, organization or group • How are those shared attitudes, values, goals and practices created? How do people come to identify as belonging to a common culture? • Primarily through symbolism, narrative, ritual and creative productions you come to imagine yourself in community with others that all share the same culture

  6. aodai pageants & politics • aodai as counter-symbol of Communist uniform and symbol of alternate Vietnamese nationalism • aodai pageant: • as celebration of Vietnamese feminine beauty in opposition to white beauty standard • as tool for shaping 2nd generation ethnic identity • Aodai pageant contradictions  “hybridized beauty”?

  7. Fil Am Cultural Politics & Palengke Pageants What is “palengke-style politics”? How do beauty pageants in the Filipino American community compare/contrast with the aodai pageants? What type of Filipino American identity is created through “palengke” politics and its beauty pageants?

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