Who Is the Asianist?: The Politics of Representation in Asian Studies

by Nitasha Tamar Sharma

Who Is the Asianist? reconsiders the past, present, and future of Asian Studies through the lens of positionality, questions of authority, and an analysis of race with an emphasis on Blackness in Asia. From self-reflective essays on being a Black Asianist to the Black Lives Matter movement in West Papua, Japan, and Viet Nam, scholars grapple with the global significance of race and local articulations of difference. Other contributors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1952636299
• ISBN13: 9781952636295
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Association for Asian Studies
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"