Asian American Identity Archives - Journal of Society, Politics, & Ethics

Distorting Mulan

Chujie QuiMay 8, 2022

Another Story of Cultural Imperialism This drawing is about how the 2020 Disney film Mulan contributes to what philosopher Iris Marion-Young defines as one face of structural-systemic oppression, namely, cultural imperialism through its distorted representation of Chinese culture. Disney is...

Issue #2 Poetry

On American Reality

Saanya KapasiMay 8, 2022

(Or The Fiction We Tell Ourselves) $300 and two suitcases each sarees became skirts kurtas became cufflinks sure, there were struggles insensitive questions, side comments but we blend in we become appealing models, even now every time we go back...

Issue #2 Poetry

Becoming Other

Spencer WangMay 8, 2022

A note from the author: This poem is about me growing up Asian in a predominantly white community and the feelings of a pervasive isolation from not fitting into white American culture. I wanted to express how this sense of...

Issue #2 Mixed Media

Stop AAPI Hate

Ulia AhnMay 8, 2022

I had just arrived in Atlanta for a delayed start to my spring semester on Zoom, on March 16th, when the infamous Atlanta spa shootings took place. This incident was a physical manifestation of hate toward and racially targeted attacks...

Issue #2 Mixed Media

“That Asian Girl” – A Modern Cultural Imperialism Story

Amie LyMay 8, 2022

While my classmates were known as “Class Clown” or “Most Popular,” my white peers reduced my unspoken class superlative to “that Asian girl.” I knew when people talked about me, my race preceded my name, and the stereotypes I tried...

Issue #2 Poetry

Kimbap: A Sonnet and a Story

Kevin KimMay 8, 2022

Iris Marion-Young contextualizes oppression via the use of five “faces”: exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence. Cultural imperialism is the one that resonated with my experiences the most. She defines it as the “universalization of a dominant group’s experience...

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Distorting Mulan

On American Reality

Becoming Other

Stop AAPI Hate

“That Asian Girl” – A Modern Cultural Imperialism Story

Kimbap: A Sonnet and a Story