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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913080
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The set of articles before you examine the expanding area of environmental justice studies engaged with racial justice and decolonial studies. They explore the convergence of Asian American studies and the issues it animates with concerns emerging from studies of environmental racism, settler colonialism, and capitalist violence. In this special issue, "Environmental Entanglements in Asian America," guest editors, Simi Kang and Lisa Sun-Hee Park, ask: "How do we contend with these erasures, and who is our audience in this pursuit? What traditional, ancestral, and collaborative knowledges can we bring to bear on our present concerns? How can we mobilize our communities and fields of study to give name and shape to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/86/image/coversmallEditors' Preface2023-11-27text/htmlen-USEditors' Preface2023-11-272023TWOProject MUSE®69092024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-27Introduction
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913081
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A note from the editors: The contents of this issue are inevitably shaped by the editors' engagements with these fields. As two people approaching this work with significant privileges as well as specific experiences of marginalization based on our education, relationship to communities, and personal identities, we know that our subject positions contribute to how we assembled and framed the work you find here. We also recognize that this special issue addresses a limited scope of environmental injustices and responses thereto. We know that many voices are missing and go unacknowledged, particularly those of frontlines communities. We hope that in recognizing these gaps and omissions, we can encourage you, our
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/86/image/coversmallIntroduction2023-11-27text/htmlen-USIntroduction2023-11-272023TWOProject MUSE®879082024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-27Eugenic Ecologies of Herbicidal Warfare in the Vietnam War
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913082
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From 1962–1971, the US military and its allied forces sprayed an estimated twenty million gallons of herbicides and chemical defoliants over rural and jungle areas of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, known as Operation Ranch Hand. With the Vietnam War providing an experimental space for the advancement of military capacities suitable for limited war—or smaller, more localized conflicts—the development of nonnuclear military technologies in chemical warfare (including herbicides such as Agent Orange, napalm, and tear gas) served a useful purpose in the US military's "flexible response" to communist insurgency in the Global South.1 To this end, Operation Ranch Hand deployed a range of chemicals—famously dubbed "rainbow
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/86/image/coversmallEugenic Ecologies of Herbicidal Warfare in the Vietnam War2023-11-27text/htmlen-USEugenic Ecologies of Herbicidal Warfare in the Vietnam War2023-11-272023TWOProject MUSE®1044492024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-27To Infinity and Beyond: Life and Death Matters in Asian Americanist Art Critique and Jae Rhim Lee's Mushroom Burial Suit
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913083
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"Resilience is in those viral/fungal structures, as well as a clarity of identity. A mushroom IS a mushroom, …what are we as humans, what is our function.…To carry the metaphor too far, there is work above ground and work below ground, and I don't know that we understand all the potential for the human organism just yet."1In 2016, Grist, an environmental justice news aggregate, reported that the five-year-long project of sustainable designer, Jae Rhim Lee, or JR Lee, had finally come to life: "Mushroom burial suit turns dead bodies into clean compost."2 Born in South Korea and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Lee is an artist and designer who situates her practice at the intersections of biology, culture, and commerce
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/86/image/coversmallTo Infinity and Beyond: Life and Death Matters in Asian Americanist Art Critique and Jae Rhim Lee's Mushroom Burial Suit2023-11-27text/htmlen-USTo Infinity and Beyond: Life and Death Matters in Asian Americanist Art Critique and Jae Rhim Lee's Mushroom Burial Suit2023-11-272023TWOProject MUSE®938822024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-27He Inoa 'Ala: Scent, Memory, and Identity in Indigenous Comics
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913084
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/86/image/coversmallHe Inoa 'Ala: Scent, Memory, and Identity in Indigenous Comics2023-11-27text/htmlen-USHe Inoa 'Ala: Scent, Memory, and Identity in Indigenous Comics2023-11-272023TWOProject MUSE®112512024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-27Ecological Aftermaths in the Black Pacific: The Racial Logics of Settler Security and Writing Toward Futurity in the Poetry of Teresia Teaiwa and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913085
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Teresia Teaiwa's "Mine Land" in the epigraph of this essay offers an Indigenous perspective on the long-term environmental impact of settler colonialism. Across four stanzas, the poem reveals the ecological damage caused by British phosphate mining on Banaba (Ocean Island), an island that is part of the present-day Republic of Kiribati in the Gilbert Island Chain in Micronesia. Banaba is also the poet's ancestral home, and the poem shows how devastating phosphate mining has been for the island's ecologies and the Indigenous Banabans. British settler colonial phosphate mining has dispossessed the Banabans ("it used to be our land") and displaced them to nearby islands ("now we're living in the Fiji Islands").
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/86/image/coversmallEcological Aftermaths in the Black Pacific: The Racial Logics of Settler Security and Writing Toward Futurity in the Poetry of Teresia Teaiwa and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner2023-11-27text/htmlen-USEcological Aftermaths in the Black Pacific: The Racial Logics of Settler Security and Writing Toward Futurity in the Poetry of Teresia Teaiwa and Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner2023-11-272023TWOProject MUSE®993132024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-27From Yosemite to the Cold War: Decomposing Settler Mythologies in the Asian American Outdoors
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913086
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"My sense is that our special connection with the national parks comes from the fact that we're a nation of immigrants. We're a nation of people for whom this is not our home, and the national parks are what anchor and root us on this continent. They are the meaning of home for many of us. They're what it means to be an American, to inhabit this continent. It's at the end of the immigrant experience, and they're what take you and say, 'Now I am an American.'""This land is not your land."What does it mean for Asian bodies to see and be seen in American national parks in a moment of rising East Asian global tourism and heightened anti-Asian violence in public space? The TV series Yellowstone (2018) portrays a tense
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/86/image/coversmallFrom Yosemite to the Cold War: Decomposing Settler Mythologies in the Asian American Outdoors2023-11-27text/htmlen-USFrom Yosemite to the Cold War: Decomposing Settler Mythologies in the Asian American Outdoors2023-11-272023TWOProject MUSE®1015702024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-27Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities by erin Khuê Ninh (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913087
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It is rare to encounter an academic monograph that inculcates a sense of intimate familiarity from its literary qualities. I am pleased to say that erin Khuê Ninh's Passing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities is one such book. Accordingly, I review the book from two perspectives: as an ostensibly objective critic of Asian American cultural production and as an unabashedly subjective reader who, as a young college student, was personally caught up in the maelstrom of one of the central case studies in Ninh's book. From both standpoints, Passing for Perfect is a triumph.In her introduction, Ninh explains that Passing for Perfect is a prequel to her first book, Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/86/image/coversmallPassing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities by erin Khuê Ninh (review)2023-11-27text/htmlen-USPassing for Perfect: College Impostors and Other Model Minorities by erin Khuê Ninh (review)2023-11-272023TWOProject MUSE®104742024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-27Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor by Allan Punzalan Isaac (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913088
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At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, we witnessed the increased visibility of Filipino frontline workers. Prior to this, the story of these diasporic laborers was widely circulated in articles such as Rachel Aviv's "The Cost of Caring" (The New Yorker, 2016) and Alex Tizon's "My Family's Slave" (The Atlantic, 2017), further cementing the link between Filipina/o/x subjects and care work. Such articles carry an undertone of shock that even closeness and care can be quantified and contracted out—fueling the depressing speculation that perhaps there is nothing left which capital does not capture. In Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor, Allan Punzalan Isaac challenges this resigned view by searching
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/86/image/coversmallFilipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor by Allan Punzalan Isaac (review)2023-11-27text/htmlen-USFilipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor by Allan Punzalan Isaac (review)2023-11-272023TWOProject MUSE®108172024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-27Instruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines by Mary Talusan (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/913089
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What does it mean to listen with an "imperial ear?" What are the implications of being pigeonholed as "natural musicians" in a society that foregrounds musical notation? What does having a Black conductor leading a band of "little brown men" musicians engender in an imperialist arena filled with racial, class, and gender cacophony? Using archives, oral histories, and secondary sources, Mary Talusan's Instruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines answers these questions by recounting the forgotten tale of the Philippine Constabulary (PC) Band led by African American US military officer and conductor Lt. Walter H. Loving during the early
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-29T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/86/image/coversmallInstruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines by Mary Talusan (review)2023-11-27text/htmlen-USInstruments of Empire: Filipino Musicians, Black Soldiers, and Military Band Music during US Colonization of the Philippines by Mary Talusan (review)2023-11-272023TWOProject MUSE®94902024-03-29T00:00:00-05:002023-11-27