‘I’m picking a side’: Thick solidarity, antiblackness and the grammar of the model minority

Abad, Miguel N.

doi:10.1080/13613324.2021.1890558

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“…This was demonstrated through Asian Americans writing letters for Black lives to show support for the BLM movement, which helped them combat their own feelings of anti-Blackness that were ingrained in them through childhood and media. Thick solidarity is further illustrated in Abad’s (2021) study on Asian American youth organizers. The organizers chose to align their fight with the Black community who were vulnerable from state sanctioned violence and recognized the importance of countering anti-Black rhetoric in the midst of anti-Asian attacks.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 88%

Navigating Intersectionality and Positionality Within Black and Latinx Youth Organizing Spaces

2023

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This study examines how Black and Latinx youth organizers navigate intersectionality and positionality as they campaigned for community and educational justice. Studies have shown the value of youth organizing for Black and Latinx populations but there is limited knowledge of how members navigate their differences to deepen solidarity efforts. The research questions are (1) how do youth organizers negotiate their positionality in terms of privileges and vulnerabilities? and (2) how do youth organizers show up for each other when addressing issues that do not affect everyone the same? We draw on a longitudinal, mixed-methods study that follows multiple cohorts of youth organizers, which revealed that young people in youth organizing spaces had a sophisticated understanding of their own identities and positionality in relation to their campaigns and other youth who did not share the same identity.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 88%

Navigating Intersectionality and Positionality Within Black and Latinx Youth Organizing Spaces

2023

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“…At stake in refusal is a sensitivity to difference requisite to the ethical demands of relation‐making. For instance, Liu and Shange (2018) call for “thick solidarity” (see also Abad 2021), which would refuse the benefits of being not‐Black, of being among Blackness, and of gaining from anti‐Blackness. Here, actual solidarity would cede power (Shange 2019, 156), defer to those impacted (Liu and Shange 2018, 196), acknowledge debt (Shange and Liu 2019), and refuse profiting from non‐Black privilege—contra progressive pedagogies that level difference in the service of “multi‐racial” solidarity (Shange 2019).…”

Section: Indeterminacies: the Extimacy Of Relation‐makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Massacre and Martyr(dom)s of Oak Creek

Hothi

2024

Cult. Anthropol.

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This article concerns how competing investments in the real motivate political disagreement. The ethnography focuses on face-to-face debate in the wake of spectacular white supremacist violence against Sikhs in the United States. Young activists relate their struggle against racial supremacy to martyrs from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, motivating their call for a politics that would defy empire, cultivate coalitional alliances, and refuse well-worn performances of multicultural docility. However, for institutional decision-makers of rank, who ground their authority in having witnessed majoritarian state terror first-hand, such agonism risks decades of partial but hard-won respectability, legibility, and safety. This article argues that the in/comparability of evental violence is staked by a global “economy of agonism,” which mobilizes in this case at least two political forms distinctive of the late-twentieth century in each the politics of recognition and ethnonationalism. The article probes the competing investments motivating political disjuncture by tracking what is here called the “problem of diaspora,” the seeming untenability of calibrations to and between home(land) and sites of dispersion. An ethnographic pursuit of psycho-social cleavages consequently reveals the “extimacy” of, or mutual co-implication of internal and external in, “collective relation-making,” i.e., in making solidarity, alliance, or coalition amongst seemingly similarly situated others.

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“…Wong 2010). Panethnic or interracial Asian American youth spaces can also be sites of radical, organized resistance, where Asian American youth can engage with other youth of color and challenge structural racism (Abad 2021;Kwon 2013; S. J. Lee et al 2020).…”

Section: Race-making In Co-ethnic Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Asians Are the Least Troublemaker”: Navigating Racial In-betweenness in Korean American Community-based Spaces

Park¹

2023

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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While Asian Americans have long been positioned as a deserving and productive racial foil to problematic and unworthy Black and Latinx communities, in recent years, they have been more frequently portrayed as actively politicized in opposition to other communities of color. Despite this portrayal in the media, social science research reveals a much more complicated portrait of Asian American racial positioning that explores how Asian Americans diversely navigate their racial in-betweenness, or what Leslie Bow calls racial interstitiality. Contributing to this research, this article analyzes how Korean Americans, as a racialized ethnic group, engage with Whiteness and their own racial position within co-ethnic community spaces. Drawing from a multi-sited ethnography of a Korean language school and an ethnic supplementary academy (called hagwon) in the Chicago suburbs, the article argues that co-ethnic community spaces are active sites of racialization that both challenge and reproduce White dominance. In these spaces, Korean Americans forged counter-narratives for their children but simultaneously reified dominant narratives relating to Whiteness, anti-Blackness, and Asian Americans. The findings strengthen scholarly understandings of how Asian Americans understand their racial identities in relation to others, the role of community institutions in racialization, and how the damaging logics of White supremacy can seep into non-White spaces.

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‘I’m picking a side’: Thick solidarity, antiblackness and the grammar of the model minority

Cited by 9 publications

References 34 publications

Navigating Intersectionality and Positionality Within Black and Latinx Youth Organizing Spaces

Navigating Intersectionality and Positionality Within Black and Latinx Youth Organizing Spaces

The Massacre and Martyr(dom)s of Oak Creek

“Asians Are the Least Troublemaker”: Navigating Racial In-betweenness in Korean American Community-based Spaces

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