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A critical engagement with and interrogation of the dominant tropes of racial violence
This volume brings together a diverse cohort of contributors working to trace the genealogies, geographies, and the entanglements of anti-Asian violence. Representing a range of critical perspectives, these essays—a collection of works by scholars, students, and community organizers—open up lines of inquiry that unsettle the taken-for-granted framings of anti-Asian violence as simply a matter of “hate.”
Intimacies of Anti-Asian Violence makes crucial connections enabled by transnational, intersectional, comparative, and critical lenses, collectively interrogating the complex linkages between imperialist and settler colonial histories, modalities of violence, and the geopolitical formation of Asia and Asianness.
Working through and between a range of critical frameworks, including but not limited to the Black radical tradition, feminist and queer critiques, Indigenous and decolonial perspectives, critical pedagogies, and the anti-caste movement, this volume provides an original and layered intervention that strives to complicate the discourse of anti-Asian violence and attends to the multiple and different ways Asia and its diasporas can be located in relation to varied permutations of violence.
Importantly and powerfully, the insights offered in Intimacies of Anti-Asian Violence point toward the possibilities for solidarities and movement-building across racial, ethnic, class, and gendered lines in the contemporary moment.
Iyko Day is Elizabeth C. Small Professor of English. She is the author of Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism.
Susan Thomas (Edited By)
Susan Thomas is Associate Professor in the Cultural Foundations of Education program and a Senior Research Associate with the South Asia Center at Syracuse University. She is the author of Indebted Mobilities: Indian Youth, Migration, and the Internationalizing University.
Antonio Tiongson (Edited By)
Antonio T. Tiongson, Jr. is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Syracuse University. He is the author of Filipinos Represent: DJs, Racial Authenticity, and the Hip-hop Nation and co-editor of Filpinx American Studies: Reckoning, Reclamation, Transformation (Fordham).
Chandan Reddy (Foreword By)
Chandan Reddy is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the U.S. State.
Foreword: Beyond a Parsing of Violence:
Remaking Asian “American” Knowledge in the Colonial Present
Chandan Reddy | ix
Introduction
Susan Thomas and Antonio T. Tiongson Jr. | 1
GENEALOGIES
1 The Counterinsurgency of Stop Asian Hate
Dylan Rodríguez | 23
2 Welcome to the Terrordome: History and Politics of Muslim Protest
Soham Patel | 52
3 Transnational Itineraries of Global “Hinduphobia”
Mona Bhan, Deepti Misri, and Nishant Upadhyay | 72
SETTLER-COLONIAL VIOLENCE
4 Combating the Virus: Anti-Asian Violence as a Function of Settler Sovereignty
Shebati Sengupta | 95
5 The Sensorium of Anti-Asian Violence: Agent Orange, Silvex, and the Toxic Trio of Settler Imperialism
Quynh Nhu Le | 111
6 “Civilization’s Really a Guy Thing”:
Japanese Settler Colonialism, TikTok’s Roman Empire Trend, and Intersectional Analysis
Danika Medak-Saltzman | 129
RACIAL CAPITAL AND ABOLITION
7 Interrogating the Global Filipino Condition amid Anti-Asian Violence:
Centering Risk and Contagion through Racial Capitalism
Edward Nadurata | 155
8 Schools as Racialized Geographies: A Curricular Intervention
Anita P. Chikkatur and Brian D. Lozenski | 172
9 On the Abolition Movement and Transnational Organizing in the Philippines:
An Interview with ABOLISYON!
Susan Thomas and Antonio T. Tiongson Jr. | 194
GENDERED AND SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE
10 Violent Intimacies: Queer Kinships in the Wake of the Korean War
Sue-jin Green | 221
11 Body Work, Migrant Labor Organizing, and Gendered Violence:
An Interview with Red Canary Song | 238
12 Sex Is/Not Work
Juliana Hu Pegues | 252
SEEKING JUSTICE / FINDING FUTURES
13 Seeking Justice in Modern India: A Case Study of the Rohith Vemula Movement
Munna Sannaki | 267
14 Asian American Art and Abolition:
A Dialogue between Jess X. Snow and James McMaster | 279
Afterword: Laundering Asian/American Grief in the Time of Genocide
Iyko Day | 293
Acknowledgments | 303
Contributors | 305
Index | 311