Asian-American Culture

Part A
1) Diaspora space is an area individual’s move to that is not where they are originally from or identify as their own. It is culture as a site of travel (Clifford). Space is more than just a place of living; it can be divided into many components such as place, race, bodies and knowledge production (Patel, Lecture 2).
2) Power- knowledge nexus/relation is a theory that’s says knowledge isn’t just about data, instead it is about generating information to gain power, they work hand in hand, as discussed in lecture three (Patel, Lecture 3).
3) Politics of location is your positionality in your space/place. It refers to said and unsaid facts about you that affect how you go on about your day. It is a combination of boundary and diaspora (Brah, 200-201). This is relatable to
She discusses how there is almost a double life as conformant into the American culture overrides the Asian identity that is originally possessed. This means that Asian American culture is never pure when interchanging with two or more different cultures because they have different intersections such as class, gender, sexual preference (Lowe, 32) that both cultures deal with on total different levels. These levels differ because ethnicity is “an actual cultural construct” that can’t be exchanged between two cultures at the same time. (Lecture 6, Patel). Lowe also uses the Chinese head taxes and miscegenation laws to display how the two cultures are almost at war with one another because how can you truly be an American when your Asian identity isn’t respected or welcome in America? Lowe later ties in Frantz Fanon who critiqued the meaning of nationalism when one ethnicity isn’t completely accepted in a different nation an individual can reside