The
Asian American
University of Connecticut
Newsletter of the Asian American Studies Institute
No. 7, Fall 2001
Look@AsianAmerica.Now!
In a year when U.S. census figures
focused on the growing diversity of
American society, notably the first ever
sampling of people who identified as
belonging to more than one racial
category, the Asian American Studies
Institute at the University of Connecticut devoted its resources into examining the continuing contributions of
Asian Americans to this country's
dynamic collage.
Asian Americans have been living in the
Americas for over two centuries now.
Asian Americans have played important
roles in their growth and development.
They have come to be highly regarded
for their sense of family values, work
continued on pg. 2
In This Issue
Director’s Desk.......................................2
Dot.Com or Dot.Comrade......................3
Asian American Heritage......................4-5
Critical Issues Series................................6
I Didn’t Know.........................................7
Day of Remembrance...........................8-9
Negative Attraction...............................10
Peace in South Asia Conference.............11
Fred Ho Prize........................................12
Faculty Highlights.............................12-13
List of Courses......................................14
Honor Roll............................................15
Education Outreach and Research
in Asian American Studies
Glastonbury, CT
"Somebody in your family came to the United States from
somewhere else — that's how you're related to immigrants,"
Sharon Hsiung, Masters in
Education graduate student at
the Neag School of Education,
told her third graders on
"China Day" at Hopewell
Elementary School on
February 13, 2001. The
cultural festival was the
culmination of Hsiung's
contributions to the China
unit of the school's curriculum. Attended by
20 parents and volunteers, China Day
exposed the 90 stu3rd graders working with an abacus
dents to cultural activities, from stuffing and
cooking dumplings, tying intricate knots, solving math problems
with an abacus, writing in calligraphy, to sampling games.
Hsiung also engaged them in thinking about who "Americans" are and
how immigrants, Asians and Chinese Americans belong among them.
She asked them to name famous Asian Americans, what Asian
Americans eat or watch on TV, and to ponder the hurt feelings of a little
girl who was learning English because she was new to America.
Her yearlong observations have been formalized in her inquiry project, in
partial satisfaction of her degree requirements. Entitled "The Impact of a
China Unit on Children's Cultural Attitudes, Awareness, and Understanding of China, its People and its Culture" Hsiung's primary goal was to
teach her students to recognize stereotypes about Asian (Chinese)
Americans, and to see differences as unique aspects of a culture that
are to be understood and celebrated.
continued on pg. 5
2.............................................................................................................................................................................................................The Asian American
Director’s Desk
Dr. Roger N. Buckley
Customarily, I use this column to look back on the
events and initiatives of the Asian American Studies
Institute over the past year. This year I will depart
somewhat from this practice and contemplate the
future. What leads me to do this is the Education
Outreach Internship Program in Asian American
Studies, a year-long initiative begun in September
2000 with the support of the University’s Neag
School of Education, and the Glastonbury School
District. The Education Outreach Interns were
responsible for assessing how topics regarding
Asian Americans are currently being taught in K-12
classrooms. The interns were also responsible for developing social
studies curriculum and related materials that integrate key experiences
and contributions of Asian Americans to the history and culture of the
United States. The Education Outreach Internship Program in Asian
American Studies speaks to the need to expand our outreach efforts to
include the voice of Connecticut teachers K-12.
In our continuing effort to challenge and reconfigure current cultural and
academic paradigms in Connecticut’s schools, I propose that the Asian
American Studies Institute, in partnership with the State Department of
Education and Connecticut’s schools, establish a Summer Certificate
Program in Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Class Studies for K-12 teachers. The goals for the Summer Program are to 1) allow teachers and
students to gain a considerable knowledge in the study of race, ethnicity, gender and class; 2) reinforce teachers’ and students’ acquisition of
a critical approach to knowledge; 3) involve learning and thinking within
an interdisciplinary framework; 4) enable teachers and students to think
comparatively and crossculturally about the relationships within and
across racially, gender and class defined communities, and to the dominant society; 5) increase the number of minority educators and educational diversity in Connecticut.
The courses would explore concepts of race, ethnicity, gender and class
and the intersection of the these fields in the historical development of
the United States. One of the courses could be a “Diversity Workshop”
with one or more of the directors of the University’s cultural centers. The
centers are an important resource and include the Asian American,
African American, Puerto Rican/Latin American, Rainbow and Women’s
Centers. The faculty for the Summer Certificate Program would be
drawn from the University’s ethnic studies institutes which include the
Asian American, African American, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies
and Women Studies Program. The details of the Summer Certificate
Program, such as the number of courses, their distribution across academic fields and their location could be worked out once the partnership
is established.
I call upon our colleagues and friends across the state to consider this
action plan whose time has come. In my view the establishment of the
Summer Certificate Program would represent a major step forward in
redefining America. I look forward to hearing from you.
Look@AsianAmerica.Now!
ethic and honesty in business,
patriotism and educational attainment. Yet Asian Americans continue to be regarded as still foreign,
unknowable, and suspect— after
all these years.
A new national survey entitled
American Attitudes Toward
Chinese Americans and Asian
Americans reveals that negative
attitudes are on the rise. Among
the findings: 46% feel Chinese
Americans are ready to pass on
secrets to China; 32% think
Chinese Americans are more loyal
to China than the U.S.; 24% disapprove of someone in their family
marrying an Asian American; 34%
would be upset if a substantial
number of Asian Americans
moved into their neighborhoods;
60% consider the increase in the
Asian population as "bad for this
country;" and 62% resent the success of the new immigrants over
U.S. born Americans. Conducted
in the first two weeks of March,
2001, the survey of 1,216
Americans at least 18 years old,
who were telephoned randomly
across the country, found many of
the attitudes toward Chinese
Americans were applied to Asian
Americans generally because
most non-Asian Americans did not
differentiate between the two
groups.
The confluence of increased diversity on one hand and the rise of
negativity on the other reaffirms
the mission of the Asian American
Studies Institute: to provide a
structured forum to study the
Asian American experience in the
context of an evolving American
society. And to advocate for more
awareness, creative resolutions
and the courage to face both
prosperous and difficult times
with skill and grace.
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Dot.Com or Dot.Comrade:
H1-B Visas
Vijay Prashad, Assoc. Professor and
Director of International Studies at
Trinity College in Hartford, CT was the
featured Fall Semester speaker of the
Asian American Studies Institute's
Guest Lecture Series, on Nov. 14,
2000. Dr. Prashad
earned his Ph.D. in
History from the Univ.
of Chicago. In Spring
of 2000, he was a
Fellow of the
International Institute
of Social History in
Amsterdam in the
Netherlands. He is the
author of several articles, and guest edited
with Biju Mathew,
"Satyagraha in
America: The Political
Culture of South Asian Americans,"
vol. 25, no.3 of Amerasia Journal. His
books include Raw Skin: Adventures
in Polyculturalism (Beacon Press,
2001); Untouchable Freedom:
A Social
History of
a Dalit
Community
(Oxford Univ.
Press, 2000); and The Karma of
Brown Folk (Univ. of Minnesota
Press, 2000).
ernment issues H1-B visas to college-educated professionals who have firm job
offers in the U.S. The applicant's employer acts as the petitioner, filing an
"employer attestation application" with the U.S. Dept. of Labor. The petitioner
must offer proof that the employer will be paying the "prevailing" wage for that
position. Upon Labor Dept. approval, the petitioner must file with the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service [INS] that includes documentation of the
candidate's qualifications. After further approvals, the H1-B visa can be filed.
The H1-B visa allows the successful applicant to stay in the U.S. for up to six
years, with the possibility of extensions after three years. For a fee of between
$2,500 to $3,500 per employee lawyers are typically retained to shepherd the visa applications
through the system, which can take months.
While many U.S. companies have legitimate
need for skilled foreign workers, overall, the
H1-B program is fraught with abuses, argue its
critics. The Center for Immigration Studies,
based in Washington D.C., reports that many
H1-B workers enter the program because they
want to get their permanent residency, also
known as a "green card." Others charge that
they work for less and under harsher conditions.
Prashad called the H1-B visa program a form
of "high-tech coolie indenture servitude" that
targets computer savvy Asians, mostly from
India and China, perpetuating the stereotype of Asians as the "smartest" people in comparison to other people of color. "Immigration is the silent killer.
Immigration as it stands now is a way to divide working people in the U.S., to
make so-called workers from overseas become ‘the problem.’ The immigration
system also creates false hopes for people
around the world and allows for massive state
intervention in workers' lives."
Vijay Prashad
“Oppression by immigration
is my particular heartbreak.”
Prashad's talk, co-sponsored by
UConn's South Asia Study Group,
took on the thorny nexus between
race, imperialism and capitalism, by
examining U.S. immigration policy
and its perpetuation of Asian
American "model minority" and "yellow
peril" stereotypes for economic profit.
In October 2000, the U.S. Congress
voted to raise the cap for H1-B visas,
temporary visas under which skilled
foreigners are allowed into the United
States, an additional 80,000 slots,
including generous exemptions. The
process is as follows: the federal gov-
"Oppression by immigration is my particular heartbreak," continued Prashad. "I'm not against people coming to the U.S. on H1-B
to make money. What I'm interested in is the hypocrisy of the system that
brings them here, draining labor from overseas, then stigmatizes them as taking jobs away, not creating real change for the domestic population, and fueling
hopes of thinking they can stay on. It's fine to make strategic, financial choices.
But the reality is that there's no going back. Working here transforms you —
you come at the peak of your life and to go back to where there are not as
many opportunities, to have to start again with fewer prospects — that in itself
needs to be talked about. Is that a good global civilization? Is that a good
society for us?"
Prashad ended his passionate presentation with this invitation. [Let us] "move
from the illusionary world of dot.com to the world I like calling dot.comrade, the
world of solidarity and struggle, and what it means to understand how our state
system, how economic profit in this country pits us apart and does not allow us
to have good fellowship with others…. All I'm asking for is to have a fair conversation on whether we want to live in a world based on the stress of increasing productivity and reporting every three months, or other ways to live life. I'm
going to live in a world of dot.comrade and I want you to join me."
4..............................................................................................................................................................................................................The Asian American
Asian American Heritage
Jessica Hagedorn
The poet, multimedia artist and author, opened Asian American Heritage
Observance on October 5, 2000. Her visit to UConn was jointly sponsored by
the Asian American Studies
Institute and the Asian
American Cultural Center,
slAAm! Book Club, which read
her novel The Gangster of
Love (Penguin Books, 1996).
Weaving memories of growing
up both in the Philippines and
San Francisco, CA, Hagedorn
read a few of her poems and
excerpts from her novels. She
capped her presentation with
clips from her latest project,
The Pink Palace, the animated
series for the Oxygen network,
in collaboration with John
Woo, which features a diverse
cast of high school students
of color.
"I come from a family of mixed
heritage. I lived in the
Philippines [until] I was about
Jessica Hagedorn
14 years old. I had come to
America with my mother because my family broke up. I had a very colonized
education…. I wasn't really taught the very turbulent history of the PhilippineAmerican relationship, from 1898 when the Spanish were defeated by the
Americans [who] in turn re-colonized the Philippines."
In the 1970s Hagedorn performed and collaborated with fellow poets Ntozake
Shange and Thulani Davis. The earliest collection of Hagedorn's poetry was
edited and anthologized by Beat poet Kenneth Rexroth, published by McGraw
Hill in 1972. "Growing up in the Bay Area in the 60’s and 70’s was one of the
best things to happen to me.There was a community of artists and writers of
color who were quite political. They were coming out of the Civil Rights struggles, and they were forming coalitions with each other….
"I went back and forth to the Philippines a lot during the 70’s to visit my father
and brothers during the most oppressive part of [the] martial law [period of the
Marcos regime]…. The newspapers had been taken over by the government
so they only printed what they wanted. There was a curfew, and a lot of people
were jailed or just disappeared for supposedly being anti-government. It was a
very difficult time for my family there…it was very difficult to not write about it."
The poem Song for My Father (on
next page) in Danger and Beauty
(Penguin Books, 1993) became a
blueprint for her first novel Dogeaters
(Penguin Books, 1990). "It was about
going back and forth…and sort of
deciding on some level that I couldn't
really go back there again and claim it
as my home. That I had become part
of my "new home" which is
America...."
"I've worked in a lot of media — in
theater, film, video — but always,
my foundation is writing. Often
when I write, I listen to music. I think
that the rhythms help the writing. It's
interesting how emotion and how to
get at a certain truth is easier when
you have music…." Taking the idea
of putting spoken word to music,
Hagedorn worked with jazz trombonist Julian Priester to form
Hagedorn's rock band, The West
Coast Gangster Choir, which later
evolved into The Gangster Choir, after
she moved to New York City in 1978.
Hagedorn has also edited the groundbreaking Charlie Chan is Dead: An
Anthology of Contemporary Asian
American Fiction, published in 1993.
Her multimedia theater and performance pieces have been presented by
the New York Shakespeare Festival's
Joseph Papp Public Theater, Berkeley
Rep, Dance Theater Workshop,
Atlanta's 7 Stages and the Los
Angeles Festival. She has collaborated on video and film projects with
Shu Lea Chang and Angel Velasco
Shaw. Grants and Awards include
fellowships from the Lila WallaceReader's Digest Fund, the NEA,
The Sundance Institute, New York
Foundation for the Arts and the
Theater Communications Guild.
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i arrive
in the unbearable heat
the sun's stillness
stretching across
the land's silence
people staring out
from airport cages
thousands of miles
later
and i have not yet
understood
my obsession to return
and twelve years
is fast
inside my brain
exploding like tears
i could show you
but you already know.
you greet me
and i see
it is you
you all the time
pulling me back
towards this space
letters are the memory
i carry with me
the unspoken name
of you,
my father
in new york
they ask me if i'm puerto
rican
and do i live in queens?
i listen to pop stations
chant to iemaja
convinced i'm really
brazilian
and you a riverboat
gambler
shooting dice in macao
during the war…
if you eat enough papaya
your sex drive diminishes
lorenza paints my nails
blue
and we giggle at the dinner
table
aunts and whores
brothers and homosexuals
a contessa with chinese eyes
and an uncle cranky with
loneliness
he carries an american
passport
like me
and here we are,
cathedrals in our thighs
Education Outreach continued from Front
banana trees for breasts
and history all mixed up
saxophones in our voices
when we scream
the love of rhythms
inherent
when we dance
they can latin here
and shoot
for the wrong glance
eyes that kill
eyes that kill…
i am trapped
by overripe mangoes
i am trapped
by the beautiful sadness of
women
i am trapped by priests and
nuns
whispering my name
in confession boxes
i am trapped
by antiques and the music
of the future
and leaving you
again and again
for america,
the loneliest of countries
my words change…
sometimes
i even forget english.
Although she found notable advancement in the attitudes, awareness and understanding among the students who participated in
her study toward Asian Americans, she recommends longitudinal
studies which would look into the students' ability to apply their
new attitudes.
At Glastonbury High School, fellow Masters in Education graduate student Jessica Staley worked closely with Director of Social
Studies Deborah Gladding Willard to conduct her inquiry project,
entitled "The Emergence of the True Asian American Nature:
Examining the Impact of the Model Minority Myth on Asian
American Students' Socio-Cultural and Academic Achievement."
Sharon Hsiung (left) Jessica Staley (right)
6..............................................................................................................................................................................................................The Asian American
Critical Issues
Racial Profiling and Asian American Activism
Frank H. Wu, Assoc. Professor
of Law at Howard Univ. in
Washington, D.C. (at left, of
Ronald Walters, Professor of
Government and Politics at the
Univ. of Maryland) gave a talk on
"Asian Americans and Political
Participation" on October 30,
2000. Wu and Walters were both
invited to discuss Election 2000
for the Institute for African
American Studies' Critical Issues
Series, co-sponsored by Asian
American Studies and the Political
Science department.
Frank H. Wu (left) and Ronald Walters
A highly regarded advocate for affirmative action and immigration rights, Wu is
the author of scholarly articles and a range of essays and commentaries for the
Washington Post, the LA Times, the Chicago Tribune, The Nation and
AsianWeek. He has written a new book entitled Yellow: Race in America
beyond Black and White (HarperCollins, 2001) which addresses some of the
more controversial contemporary issues, including diversity, globalization and
the mixed race movement, and introduces the example of Asian Americans to
shed new light on the current debates.
"Experts have testified that they
believe Mainland China recruits spies
on the basis of ethnicity and may target Chinese Americans and other
people with ties to China. What's
wrong with [this argument]? Every
time a foreign country does something such as what Japan did during
World War II with Pearl Harbor, then
the U.S. government would be justified in invoking that foreign government's action to deprive U.S. citizens
and permanent residents of their civil
rights. There's no connection between
Wen Ho Lee and other Chinese
Americans, many good and loyal citizens, to China other than race. If
there was a 'Chinese spy' Wen Ho
Lee isn't it! It is neither practical nor
efficient to make assumptions about
individuals based on generalizations
about groups."
On September 13, 2000, Wen Ho Lee
walked away a free man after agreeing to plead guilty to one felony count
of mishandling national security data.
He did not admit to intending to harm
the United States or aid a foreign
“It is neither practical nor efficient to make assumptions about
individuals based on generalizations about groups.”
On the occasion of his second invited lecture at UConn, Fe Delos-Santos of
the Asian American Studies Institute engaged Wu in a conversation about
racial profiling, a cause of concern for both the African and Asian American
communities, and its application to the case of Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos
National Laboratories nuclear scientist suspected of espionage.
"In the Wen Ho Lee case, there is no longer any dispute that racial profiling
occurred. The issue is — was the racial profiling somehow justified? We
shouldn't confuse what happened versus is what happened right? …Race was
a factor and … Wen Ho Lee was singled out and became a fall guy, a scapegoat. We know that double standards were applied. We know that former CIA
security officer John Deutch compromised and breached security protocols
every bit as serious as what Wen Ho Lee did … and there are many of these
cases, but none of them involving the U.S. government seeking life imprisonment and accusing someone of the highest form of treason. No question that
race was at issue."
F.B.I agents conducted nine months worth of interviews, scouring the globe for
evidence that Lee leaked information on America's most sophisticated nuclear
warhead, the W-88, to China. Lee was finally indicted on 59 counts though
none mentioned the W-88 or spying, jailed without bail and served nine months
in solitary confinement 23 hours a day, shackled whenever he left his cell, even
while exercising and meeting with his lawyers.
country. He also agreed to a sentence of time served, with no probation, and to undergo 60 hours of
debriefing, under oath, by the government. Judge James A. Parker, a
Republican appointee, declared that
Lee's imprisonment had "embarrassed our entire nation and each of
us who is a citizen of it."
Wu emphasized the importance of the
Wen Ho Lee case "because we saw
Asian American activism succeed
here. Asian Americans persisted.
They persevered, but not by working
on this by themselves … but by forming coalitions.The lesson to be
learned here is that if we agitate on
behalf of Wen Ho Lee, we must also
do so on the 'Driving While Black'
issue and the racial profiling of Arab
Americans in airports. Only by doing
that can we show that our actions are
based on matters of principle, and not
self-interest alone."
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I Didn’t Know
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto read from and
discussed the characters that populate her book, Why She Left Us
(Perennial, 2000) on November 28,
2000. Sponsored by the Asian
American Cultural Center, slAAm!
Book Club and the Asian American
Studies Institute, Rizzuto's visit gave
Fe Delos-Santos a chance to hold an
informal interview with the author
about sharing stories, silence and the
creative process.
RRR: I think it's human nature.
I'm sure I do it as a way of trying to
figure out what is real and what isn't
real. The flip side of putting yourself
into your work is that a lot of times,
even people who know you will read it
and say, "Wow, I didn't know she was
like that …" even if they know that
you're not like that at all! I think what
happens is — an author resonates
with a certain thing that you're getting
from a story and in a way, I could tell
you that the book has nothing to do
would say, "how could you make this
person that way when the greater evil
is over here?" But I've been surprised
that no one has said that yet. And I
think it's because the characters
seem real….
I very deliberately decided that there
is this central character Emi — her
actions do in some way put the story
into motion, but I didn't know what
happened to her, and I wasn't gonna
answer that question for myself. I was
gonna let everybody else because
that's more like life….
FDS: Did you find that people
shared stories with you as they
looked into their own experiences?
FDS: To close, what do you most
want readers of Why She Left Us to
come away with?
RRR: I did find in my research that
people find it easier to talk to
strangers. I didn't really know about
the internment growing up and when I
got to the point where I was gonna
[sic] begin to ask questions, it
became pretty clear that there was
only one member in my family who
was going to talk…. And I think that
even as we're in the process of
"breaking the silence" it still may not
be possible to tell someone who
knows you well because these days,
you know, there's a shame. It's a victim shame that shouldn't be there.
It's a feeling of "oh my god! Did I do
something wrong by allowing myself
to be interned?"
RRR: On a very basic level, I just
want them to feel like their time
wasn't wasted. When I read a book,
it's wonderful to be transported by a
good story. I look for something new,
a moment of surprise. And I think that
the absolute best compliment I can
give to anybody's work is — when I'm
reading along and all of a sudden —
something happens, and it could just
be a single word choice, and where I
think, "Wow! I didn't expect that, and
Wow! That's absolutely the right
word." So if there's anything that anyone can find like that in this book,
then that's wonderful.
I've talked about the issue in a lot of
ways, with a lot of different people,
and I personally feel that everybody
tried to do the thing they thought was
best. But there's a reaction when you
hear about the internment — how
could that possibly have happened?
And the implication is — how could
you have let that happen? And I think
that's one of the reasons why people
still don't say anything to their families.
FDS: How do you feel when a
reader takes a piece of the story
and projects it onto the author?
And talk about your role and responsibility as an artist/author in creating
those images?
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
with me and who I am, but in a way
it's exactly me and who I am ….
Silence was my story. I didn't live
through the internment and ultimately,
my story was — I didn't know….
I get classified as an Asian American
writer mostly because the book works
that way and people actually feel that
it's real. And when I was writing it, I
was very worried that I was going to
portray the internment wrong.
Because there were so many different
stories. And the first and easiest story
is that these hardworking, model
minority people were shoved into
these camps by this evil government.
That was flat to me. There was no life
in it, and so, my characters are very
flawed. Then I worried that people
Why She Left Us tells the story of
three generations of a Japanese
American family whose lives are tragically affected by World War II when
they are interned in camps in the
American West. It is also a searing
yet redemptive novel about a family
and its secrets — secrets that grow
from fierce love and terrible fear. It
illuminates the universal relationships
between mothers and their children
while evoking the power of history
to affect individual lives. This is
Rizzuto's first novel. She was born
and raised in Hawaii and has a
degree in astrophysics from Columbia
College. Her mother and her family
were interned at the Amache camp in
southeastern Colorado.
8..............................................................................................................................................................................................................The Asian American
Day of Remembrance
Artist Roger Shimomura
Roger Shimomura, Distinguished Professor of Art at the Univ. of Kansas in
Lawrence, KS, was Day of Remembrance 2001's guest and artist-in-residence. The Asian American Studies Institute, in collaboration with the School
of Fine Arts - Dept. of Art and Art History, and co-sponsored by the Asian
American Cultural Center and the Wm. Benton Museum of Art, exhibited
Shimomura's "Memories of Childhood" from January 23 to March 16, 2001;
hosted the Public Lecture on February 15th at the Dodd Center; and coordinated the Performance Art Workshop held the following day at the Studio
Theater.
Born in Seattle, WA, Shimomura is a Sansei — a third generation Japanese
American. He received his bachelor's degree in Commercial Design from the
Univ. of Washington in 1961, and his Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting
from Syracuse Univ. in 1969. He has had over 85 solo exhibitions in the U.S.,
Canada and Japan, and has won over 35 awards in group exhibitions. He has
presented his experimental and performance art pieces throughout the country. He has received three NEA Fellowships in Painting and Performance Art,
an NEA/Rockefeller/Warhol Foundation Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Art, and
the first Kansas Artist's Fellowship to be awarded in Painting, among his many
awards and distinctions. Shimomura has lectured at over 125 universities and
art museums. In 1994 he was designated as one of nine University
Distinguished Professors at the Univ. of Kansas. His personal papers are
being collected by the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution
in Washington, D.C.
Roger Shimomura
"Memories of Childhood" comes from a book of lithographs by Shimomura.
The images are derived from a series of paintings about the artist's first ten
recollections of life. They show Shimomura's experiences as a child in the
Minidoka concentration camp in Hunt, Idaho, during World War II. The prints
are painted in bright,
vivid colors, and bear a
noticeably childlike perspective and captions.
On closer inspection,
the viewer glimpses references to barbed wire
fencing and barracks
style housing. Print #5,
for example, shows a
small boy entering the
public latrines while
adult male and female
legs can be seen from
just under the stalls, and
is entitled, "The Lines to
the Bathrooms were
Camp Minidoka, Hunt, Idaho (from American Diary) always very long."
Shimomura's Public Lecture: An American Diary was meant to highlight "two
very important aspects of my work. First, issues that deal with Asian America,
with a particular focus upon the internment. Also, but just as important, it's
meant to show you how I've been influenced by my environment — not only
my physical environment, but also the political environment — and how these
things have influenced the images of my work." Working like a journey
through 31 years of avid collecting and painting, two marriages and children,
Fall 2001................................................................................................................................................................................................................................9
notorious neighbors and colorful colleagues,
stereotypical conversations and mistaken identities, ironic commentaries and copyright infringement, Shimomura's presentation pivots on the
"key to all the work that [he has] done" — his
grandmother, Toku Machida Shimomura
(1888 -1968).
Shimomura's grandmother, a decorated Naval
Red Cross nurse during the Russo-Japan War,
became one of the most active Japanese
American midwives and was one of the early
founders of the Japanese Methodist Church in
Seattle. She maintained an annual diary that
would cover 56 years of her life in America.
Only 37 of the diaries remain. The reason "so
many of the diaries are missing," said Shimomura,
is that "when the war [World War II] broke out, the
FBI was investigating anyone who maintained a
diary that made any sort of positive or sentimental
reference to Japan and locking them up. So, my
grandmother quickly perused her diaries and my
mother said that she remembered seeing
Grandma burning diaries that had various entries
talking about how much she missed her mom in
Japan or the countryside there. Diaries before
1941 were burned and when she passed away,
my grandfather gave away several more to her best friends who were mentioned frequently in them. So what I have left are the 37…[which will be] donated to the Japanese American National Museum."
In the 1980’s Shimomura based his "Diary Series" paintings on the translations
of his grandmother's wartime diaries. He also created his first experimental
theater piece called "The Seven Kabuki Plays Project" with each act performing one of the diary paintings. He revisited his grandmother's diaries to create
“An American Diary” funded by the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund,
created under the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, which was to "finance efforts
to inform the public about the internment so as to prevent the recurrence
of any similar event."
At the Performance Art Workshop Shimomura directed the eight performers,
who were UConn staff members, a graduate student, two Drama majors, a
filmmaker and two Stafford High School students, to create a ritualistic performance around an assigned common object, that re-invents the identity of
that object, thereby transforming it to a new meaning. A few members of the
audience, visiting students and their teachers from East Hartford High School
also performed. Shimomura became interested in performance art when he
was in graduate school. "Performance art is more like painting," he has said.
"I think some students will take performance art to try to overcome a certain
level of bashfulness. I think that is a very courageous act…."
Day of Remembrance refers to February 19, 1942, when Franklin D.
Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing the unjust incarceration of
120,000 Japanese American civilians, two-thirds of them U.S. born American
citizens, in concentration camps located in remote part of the United States
during World War II. Day of Remembrance at UConn is an annual event to
observe this tragic moment in American history and to educate the younger
generation especially to resist all forms of injustice and exclusion.
Martin Cheng, Painter and Fisherman
(from Return of The Yellow Peril)
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Negative Attraction:
produce revenue by reaching a large
audience, some films flirt explicitly
with or even represent interracial
coupling as a means to intrigue and
entertain. When Hollywood has represented such coupling, however, EuroAmerican men tend to win the hearts
of women of color, while men of color
rarely develop intimate relations with
Euro-American women."
The Politics of Interracial
Romance
Floyd Cheung, Asst. Professor of
English and American Studies at
Smith College in Northampton, MA
and Chair of the Five College
Committee for Asian/Pacific/American
Studies, gave the Spring Semester
Guest Lecture on March 8, 2001. Dr.
Cheung earned his Ph.D. in English at
Tulane Univ. with his dissertation,
"Kingdoms of Manly Style: Performing
Chinese American Masculinity, 18651941." He has written articles on the
life and works of Yung Wing, who
graduated from Yale Univ. in 1847 and
the first Asian Pacific American to do
so from an U.S. college. Cheung's
interest in the politics of interracial
romance dates back to publishing first
on creole love poems as reactions to
quadroon balls, and now to contemplating films that feature Asian
American and Euro-American pairings.
Cheung arrives at the politics and rhetoric of interracial coupling by closely
reading the text, images and marketing of the action romance film, The
Replacement Killers, starring Asian
actor Chow Yun-Fat and Academy
Award-winner Mira Sorvino.
"Inserting an Asian star into a U.S. film
opposite a Euro-American heroine is
no simple matter," asserts Cheung. In
The Replacement Killers "Chow YunFat's character, John Lee, is at once
invited into and excluded from multicultural American life. What I call neg-
Floyd Cheung
ative attraction characterizes this
contradictory pairing of invitation and
exclusion. In two of the most intimate
scenes in the film, Mira Sorvino's
character, Meg Coburn, articulates
the rhetoric of negative attraction in
the form of litotes — a form of understatement in which a thing is affirmed
by stating the negative of its opposite. A classic example is, 'I am not
unhappy to have met you.' The ways
in which [John and Meg] are marketed and [how] they interact onscreen
both challenge and reinscribe late
20th century institutional and societal
assumptions about race and gender
relations in America."
After reviewing several other U.S.
action romance films, Cheung said,
"audiences generally expect that the
lead male and female of the same
racialized identification will begin as
strangers but end up falling in love
with each other. However, there is
nothing natural about this expectation. Besides being heterosexist,
these conventions work symbiotically
with discourses of so-called racial
purity that have held much sway in
America since at least the 17th century…. The U.S. film industry helped
to naturalize the assumption that heterosexual liaisons should take place
only between members of the same
racialized identification…. While
most big budget films appeal to dominant expectations because they must
Although they flirt, bond and work
together to survive attacks launched
against them, John and Meg "in the
end does not a couple make. In an
indication of the film's restrained
transgressiveness, this unromantic
state of affairs frustrates the expectations of attentive viewers…. Despite
Meg's invitation, however qualified or
indirect, John acts with self-containment, choosing to be with his family
as if that family could not move to
America or incorporate a EuroAmerican woman within its frame.
"This displacement serves some late
20th century American interests well.
While elements of the country can
claim an investment in universalism
and the denial of difference, they can
also blamelessly withhold the full
rights and privileges that accrue to its
cultural citizens. Negative attraction
characterizes invitation into multicultural life, but in the case of The
Replacement Killers self-containment
works in tandem to perpetuate the
image and notion that Asian countries
such as China are neither ready nor
able to accept such an invitation. The
U.S. allows Asians to immigrate but
can they ever be truly 'American'?
The U.S. hires scientists of Asian
descent, but will these employees
remain loyal to their countries of origin? In these all too unhypothetical
cases, the onus appears to be wholly
on Asians or Asian Americans. But in
fact, whether they are accepted as
American and whether they are trusted hinge to a large degree on residual assumptions about Asians as
unassimilable aliens. That John
does not kiss Meg in the end is
more than disappointment or even
a generic anomaly, but rather a
symptom of these assumptions'
enduring purchase."
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Peace in South Asia Conference
State Capitol, Hartford, CT
On October 7, 2000 the Asian American Studies Institute and the Pakistani
American Association of CT sponsored a one-day conference at the State
Capitol Legislative Building in Hartford on Peace in South Asia. The conference
highlighted the various impediments to peace in the region and explored some
of the options for resolving those hurdles.
Kashmir
South Asia is home to almost a quarter of the world's population. Its history of political and military conflicts,
nuclear testing between India and
Pakistan, and the escalation of violence in Kashmir have concerned the
"silent majority" of South Asian
Americans who continue to hope for
lasting peace. According to conference planners, "the region needs
peace, stability and tolerance to
prosper. Only then will the regional governments be able to address the
real issues faced by the people — problems [of] hunger, disease and poverty."
The impressive list of participants at the conference included: CT Senator Mary
Ann Handley and U.S. Rep. John Larson; Pakistan's Ambassador to the U.S.
Dr. Maleeha Lodhi; Professors Roger Buckley (UConn), Marcia Hermansen
(Loyola University), Qamar-ul Huda
(Boston College), Adil Najam (Boston
University), and Vijay Prashad (Trinity
College); former presidents of the
Association of Pakistani Physicians of North
America Nasim Ashraf and Arif Toor; former So. Asia Bureau Chief for the
Washington Post Kenneth Cooper;
Executive Director of the Kashmiri
American Council Ghulam Nabi Fai; and
[then] U.S. Congressman Sam Gejdenson.
During a break in the proceedings,
Fe Delos-Santos of the Asian American
Studies Institute asked Kenneth Cooper
and Ghulam Nabi Fai to summarize
Kenneth Cooper
their presentations.
Cooper: I basically make two points about
what the U.S. could do to promote peace in South Asia. It's sort of a long point
of view because I don't think that the conditions are right right now for anyone
to try to mediate or agree to a settlement of the Kashmir issue. I think before
the world can get to that stage of dealing with that subject, there needs to be
a stable, secure and democratic Pakistan. I think there are things the U.S.
can do by way of exchanges to promote civil society and democratic habits
in Pakistan.
On the other side, what needs to happen with India, since I am convinced the
reason India tested nuclear weapons is that it wanted to be respected by the
world powers; that the U.S. could play a role in suggesting that India could be
included on the permanent membership of the UN Security Council. [That is,]
if it actually came to terms with Kashmir and sort of use that as a carrot to get
India to see that if it were to be one of the world's leaders formally, it would
have certain responsibilities. And the first among these would be to come to
terms with Kashmir….
Ghulam Nabi Fai
Nabi Fai: Basically what we are
trying to do as Kashmiri Americans
here in the U.S. is to create an
understanding among policy makers
to make sure that they are involved
as honest peacebrokers in South
Asia. In 1998 India and Pakistan were
on the brink of a nuclear confrontation, and nuclear confrontation
remains a possibility even now. And
if I may say so, the underlying cause
of this confrontation is nothing but the
issue of Kashmir.
The time has come to include the
people of Kashmir in the talks.
However I am afraid these talks will
also fail without third party involvement — not in terms of a mediator
but a facilitator. The third party does
not necessarily need to be the United
States. How about a person of international standing? We have suggested former U.S. president Jimmy
Carter or former U.K. Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher. Still another, more
desirable, is former ANC president
Nelson Mandela. Mandela is highly
respected in India, and I truly feel that
he can bring [the] Indian, Pakistani
and Kashimiri leadership to the table.
What we are most concerned about is
the inclusion of the people of
Kashmir, and Mandela's presence
will be received by the Kashmiri
leadership as positive.
The Peace in South Asia Conference
was videotaped in its entirety and the
set of three videos is available in VHS
format from the Pakistani American
Association of CT, P.O. Box 230525,
Hartford, CT 06123-0525.
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Fred Ho Prize
Are We Explorers?
Awarded on May 6, 2001 the 2nd Biennial Fred Ho Prize selected Jennifer
Keefe and Ashley Oat for distinction. Both students in Fine Arts Asst.
Professor Cora Lynn Deibler's class, each also received a monetary award.
Accompanying her submission, Keefe's statement read in part, "I was interested in the documents about second generation Asian American writers and …
the collection of memories struck me as something very important to Asian
American culture." The Chinese character for memory backgrounds a digital
silhouette overlay of a strong and open Asian face, suggesting an ongoing dialogue between the present and the past.
At the award ceremony, where Fred Ho performed original compositions, Oat
met with Ho and Asian American Studies faculty, staff and community members. Oat's work, motivated by Ho's "Liberation Haiku" was on display and
attracted the attention of George Fukui, who was the Keynote Speaker at the
Ashley Oat (winning entry)
“Rooted in progressive thought, Fred Ho’s work makes us
think. If you let it, it will make you wonder. Above all it
opens new horizons and forces us to answer the question —
Are we explorers?”A
Awards Banquet, sponsored by the Asian American Cultural Center. Fukui, a
Nisei or 2nd generation American of Japanese ancestry and an alumnus of
UConn, was interned at Topaz during World War II. Oat's statement read in
part, "…the barbed wire covered wall is hidden from view but visible upon a
closer look. I interpreted the poem to [suggest that] breaking American racist
chains begins with acknowledging that they exist."
The Fred Ho Prize is sponsored by the Asian American Studies Institute and is
awarded for the most outstanding, original work by a UConn undergraduate,
based upon research in the Fred Ho Collection, part of the Dodd Center's
Special Collections and is open to the public. In describing Fred Ho's music
and art, Institute Director Roger Buckley said that it is "rooted in progressive
and radical thought…it makes us think. If you let it, it will make you wonder….
Above all, the music and art of Fred Ho opens new horizons and forces us to
Jennifer Keefe (winning entry) answer the question — Are we explorers?"
Faculty Accomplishments and Initiatives
Highlights
Roger Buckley, Professor of History
Buckley continued to work on his original trilogy that explores the question of
race, identity and nationality in the British Army of the 19th century through the
medium of literary historical fiction. Congo Jack was published in 1997, and
I, Hanuman is currently being considered for publication by HarperCollins.
Buckley is nearing completion on the third volume, working title Sepoy
O'Connor. He also served as Honorary Gala Committee Member for the Nisei
Student Relocation Commemorative Fund 20th Anniversary on September 15,
2000 in Waltham, MA. Outreach to the public schools of CT include lecturing on
Michael Dukakis (right)
Roger Buckley (middle)
Glenn Kumekawa (left)
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"Writing Historical Fiction" at
Windham High on January 31, 2001,
and addressing issues in the African
American community at Danbury
High, sponsored by Black Men of
Connecticut on October 19, 2000.
He continues to work on a book
about the human rights activist, Yuri
Kochiyama.
Wei Li, Asst. Professor of Geography
& Asian American Studies
Bandana Purkayastha,
Asst. Professor of Sociology
& Asian American Studies
Karen Chow, Asst. Professor of
English & Asian American Studies
Wei Li
Bandana Purkayastha
Karen Chow
Chow's article "Asian American
Transnationalism in John Woo's
'Bullet in the Head”’ was published in
Journal of Narrative Theory, 30:3 and
wrote the preface for the journal LIT:
Literature, Interpretation and Theory,
12:1. She also edited LIT's special
issue on "Asian American Literature
and Culture." She continued to serve
as Book Reviews Co-Editor of
MELUS, the journal of multi-ethnic literatures of the U.S. Chow taught two
new courses she developed. The first
covered all published works by
Maxine Hong Kingston and Toni
Morrison (with the exception of Tar
Baby) for upper division undergraduates. She also taught a graduate
seminar on Asian American
Literature. At the Association for
Asian American Studies (AAAS)
Conference in Toronto, she presented
"What's Hapa-Ning in Asian American
'Zines'" on March 30, 2001. Chow
received the 2001 Women of Color
Recognition Award for Outstanding
Contributions to UConn and for
Excellence in Leadership,
Achievement and Service.
Professor Li was on leave from the
Storrs Campus during 2000-2001
academic year to complete field work
for her National Science Foundation
grant ($74,869.00) studying "Ethnic
Banking & Community Development"
in Los Angeles, CA and "A Comparative Study of Chinese Suburban
Settlements" as a UConn
Chancellor's Research Fellow. She
was quoted in a Los Angeles Times
article on September 13, 2000,
examining why Korean American
Banks are in the top ranks of SBA
lending. At the AAAS Conference in
Toronto, Li spoke at a roundtable,
interdisciplinary discussion on "Social
Scientists' Explanation of Data and
Research Tools for Humanities." She
also gave a paper, "Banking on
Social Capital in the Era of
Globalization: Chinese Ethnobanks in
Los Angeles" on March 30, 2001.
She completed work on two book
length manuscripts, under review with
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, one entitled New Asian Immigrant
Community: from Urban Enclave to
Ethnic Suburb. We will miss Dr. Li's
warm collegiality and wish her the
very best as a new faculty member of
Arizona State Univ.'s Asian Pacific
American Studies Program.
Purkayastha conducted interviews
and prepared the quantitative database for her UConn Research
Foundation grant ($7,447.00) studying
"Maintaining Meaningful Connections:
Transnational Processes and the New
Second Generation South Asian
Youth." Papers presented from this
project include "Organizing
'Traditional' Events: New Second
Generation Asian Indians Develop
Suburban Networks" on March 30,
2001 at the AAAS Conference in
Toronto; and "Sifting through Tradition:
New Second Generation Asian
Indians and Transnational Networks"
with Chantal Krcmar and Melanie
Peele at the Eastern Sociological
Society Conference in Philadelphia.
She published "Equality and
Cumulative Disadvantage: Response
to Baxter and Wright" in Gender and
Society with Myra Ferree; and edited
"Tagore and Science" for the Asian
American Studies Institute's
Occasional Papers Series. She also
has several articles accepted for publication, and is at work on a book
length manuscript on South Asian
Youth, under consideration by a few
publishers. Her Introduction to
Sociology: Special Focus on Asian
Americans course for Fall, 2000 was
oversubscribed by at least 40 students. Nominated by Dr. Wayne
Villemez, Purkayastha received the
AAUP Teaching Promise Excellence
Award (with Prof. Margaret Breen) on
April 24, 2001 at the State Capitol
Building in Hartford.
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Cultural Study in Nepal
In collaboration with the College of
Continuing Studies at UConn, the
Asian American Studies Institute
sponsored a 4-week study abroad
program held during the Winter
Intersession, December 26, 2000 to
January 18, 2001. Centered in
Kathmandu, the curriculum included
lectures and seminars on basic Nepali
language; history of Kathmandu
Valley; Hinduism; Buddhism; Nepali
and Tibetan cultures; and contemporary issues in South Asia. Asian
American Studies and Sociology Asst.
Professor, Bandana Purkayastha
served as program faculty.
Usha Palaniswamy, Asst. Prof. of
Allied Health & Asian American Studies
Usha Palaniswamy
Palaniswamy published several articles in 2000-2001: "Evaluation of
Germplasm for Fruit Surface Area in
Chili (Capsicum annuum L)" in Crop
Res. 21:2, March 2001; "Leaf Yield
and Fatty Acid Composition of
Purslane (Portuluca Oleracea L) at
Different Growth Stages" with RJ
McAvoy and B. Bible in Journal of
Trop. Agri., December 2000; "Stem
Diameter: Its Importance in Breeding
for Fruit Yield in Chili and Evaluation
of Genetic Stock" with D.P. Singh in
Intern. J. Trop. Agric. 18:4, December
2000; and "Asian Horticultural Crops
and Human Dietetics" in HortScience
35:3 (2000). She also produced
Purslane, a monthly publication that
highlights herbs and health practices
of Asian origin for the Asian American
Studies Institute.
continued on pg. 15
Course Offerings
2001 - 2002
Fall Semester 2001
AASI 298 or Hist 298 Japanese Americans and World War II examines the
events that led to martial law after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the forced
removal and confinement of over 100,000 persons of Japanese ancestry on
the U.S. mainland after Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066.
The course illuminates the wartime experiences of Japanese Americans and
assesses the consequences today of those events for all Americans.
AASI 274 or Engl 274 Introduction to Asian American Literature reviews novels, short stories, drama and poetry by and about Asian Americans, and use
film as "text" to discuss significant cultural and historical moments for Asian
Americans in different regions of the United States. The course will discuss
pre-and post-1965 "waves" of Asian immigration and exclusion, and how literature explores the difficulties of dislocation and relocation. Satisfies Area 4 literature general education requirement.
SOCI 222 Asian Indian Women: Activism and Social Change focuses on
women of the world's largest democracies, India and the U.S., and examines
how gender, class, race and ethnicity structure everyday lives of Asian Indian
women in both societies and how they have mobilized to change the social
context of their lives. The course also looks at historical and contemporary
trends within the overlapping spheres of family and paid work. Students will
hold person to person discussions and use e-mail to engage with some
activists in India and the U.S.
AASI 215 Special Topics: Critical Health Issues of Asian Americans addresses gender specific health problems in Asian American populations, reviews cultural issues in their health and healthcare, and discusses current trends in
medical practices.
AASI 298 Creative Writing Workshop: Reading and Writing in a Global
Market is a writing and reading intensive course that focuses on craft, and
issues of race, identity and gender.
AASI 298 or Hist 270 Epics of India provides a critical review of the ancient
epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata, in the context of their grip on religious,
social, cultural and political thought, comparable to the influence of the Greek
epics Iliad and Odyssey on western civilization. The course will also compare
the recent Indian television production of Mahabharata with Peter Brook's ninehour drama.
Spring Semester 2002
Asian American Writing & Film students will survey fiction and other writings
by Asian American women, and read texts as representations of various sociocultural issues, including immigration, family, work, community and sexuality.
Recognizing that the term "Asian American women" collapses groups of
women with very different histories, cultures and languages, this course pays
close attention to ways that writers' gendered and ethnic perspectives create
and (re)define American urban, suburban and rural places, as well as public
and private spaces such as work, home and school.
AASI 216 Asian Medical Systems examines and discusses the most popular
Asian medical systems, including Ayurveda and Chinese herbal medicine.
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Honor Roll of Donors
South Asian Art
Shiro Aisawa
Vanita Bhalla
Matt Cholewa & Carolyn
Ikari
Don Y. Hibino
John Hong
Norman & Kyoko Ikari
Eufronio & Norma
Maderazo
Lara L. Manzione
Jeanette & Satoshi Oishi
Shyamala & Krishnan
Raman
Frances M. Sheng
Salvador Sirios
Lakshman & Sarala Thakur
Lectures
Faculty Accomplishments
continued from page 14
The School of Allied Health
awarded Palaniswamy a twoyear, Graduate Research
Assistantship for "Design and
Development of Culturally-based
Breast Cancer Awareness and
Early Detection Educational
Programs for Asian Indians"
beginning in Fall, 2001.
The Asian American Studies Institute continued its co-sponsorship of lectures
on South Asian Art with the School of Fine Arts, Dept. of Art and Art History.
On October 10, 2000 Robert Kirschbaum, Professor of Art at Trinity College in
Hartford, CT lectured on the influence of India on his most recent work. He
was Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the College of Fine Arts in
Karnataka Chitrakala Parishkath in Bangalore. And on December 5, 2000
Tapas Bhatt, Director of Auroville in Pondicherry, India gave a presentation on
its history, philosophy and the international artists residency and exchange
program.
Spotlight:
Welcome!
Our new Administrative Assistant,
Maxine Smestad-Haines, joined the
Asian American Studies Institute in
February, 2001. Formerly the office
secretary at UConn's Cooperative
Extension and an office assistant at
the Center for Academic Programs
before that, she brings 16 years of
university experience with her to our
program. We welcome her bright
enthusiasm and fresh perspective,
and look forward to the future with her
as our colleague.
Maxine Smestad-Haines
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Faculty and Staff
Roger N. Buckley, Dir. & Prof. of History
Karen Chow, Asst. Professor, English
Fe Delos-Santos, Program Specialist
Wei Li, Asst. Professor, Geography
Usha Palaniswamy, Asst. Prof., Allied Health
Bandana Purkayastha, Asst. Prof., Sociology
Anne Theriault, Admin. Assistant 2000
Maxine Smestad-Haines, Admin. Asst. 2001
Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company
performing at Jorgensen Auditorium on Tuesday,
October 30, 2001 at 8:00 p.m.
photo courtesy of Jorgensen
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