Journal of Asian American Studies

Takagi, Dana Y., 1954-
Faith, Race and Nationalism
Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 7, Number 3, October 2004, pp. 271-288

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Dana Y. Takagi - Faith, Race and Nationalism - Journal of Asian American Studies 7:3 Journal of Asian American Studies 7.3 (2004) 271-288 Faith, Race and Nationalism Dana Y. Takagi History teaches us clearly that the battle against colonialism does not run straight away along the lines of nationalism. Frantz Fanon (1963) The Wretched of the Earth When, for example, Aboriginal peoples strive for recognition, they are constrained to present their demands in the normative vocabulary available to them. That is, they seek recognition as 'peoples' and 'nations,' with 'sovereignty' or a 'right to 'self-determination,' even though these terms may distort or misdescribe the claim they would wish to make if it were expressed in their own languages. James Tully (1995) Strange Multiplicity Nationalism invokes tradition in order in order to assert the antagonism between irreconcilable social and cultural values. Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd (1997), The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital Recently, I learned that a small piece of Captain Cook's ship, the Endeavor, was carried into outer space on a NASA space shuttle also bearing the name, Endeavor. NASA, in capitalizing on the legacy of Cook's spirit of exploration and scientific discovery, hoped to revitalize its space program after its premier shuttle, Challenger, exploded in 1987 shortly after take-off. NASA's invocation of Cook's eighteenth-century voyages across the Pacific symbolizes the potency of...