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Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora

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In the 60s black power opened an argument against racism that created a niche (ever so slowly) in academia. Now that niche is being taken over by Asian Americans, who claim they are being discriminated against, too.

However, check the data. Less than one percent of white men are married to black women. Meanwhile, 50% of Asian women have white partners.

Who do you think is lower on the racial hierarchy?

Since I live in Nagasaki Japan and am half black and half Japanese, I am considered black. Meanwhile, my white friends at the school I teach at marry and date the Japanese with ease. I am left out, even though I am half-Asian and am considered beautiful enough to work as a model (I have done this in Harlem!).

Asians want to talk about how they are being erased. This is a joke, that simple statistics will out as a lie.

Americans would much rather turn Japanese than they would Senegalese.

We are the ones who are erased. Even in the book Yellow by Frank Wu, he says this.

We don't even have a perspective in books like these. All Americans are considered to be white. We will watch Jackie Chan, and admire him, too, and like a black fella playing alongside him. However, our perspective doesn't matter.

In the book Japanese by Spring by Ishmael Reed he makes this clear. However, no Asian scholar will take Mr. Reed seriously as a novelist. For them, only whites and Japanese can be authors. Black people are buffoons without brains. When was the last time you saw an Asian critic seriously concern themselves with a black's book?

And it is the Asian women who get tenure at the big schools. We get our Phds in linguistics and are lucky to be able to teach ESL in Japan. White American men marry Asian women at thirty times the rate that they marry black women. We are erased.

Gilles Deleuze says that all true love is interracial.

But what races was he talking about? Was his girlfriend from Asia?

I read this book trying to understand why so many people were trying to get out of Asian countries. I came away only understanding that the authors felt that they weren't treated like royalty in the west when they arrived. But why were they leaving in such huge numbers in the first place? What is so wrong in Asian culture that so many people want out? In America they make more money than everybody else. This book doesn't look at any difficult questions. It left me thinking that it was somewhat like a Chinese dinner. Seemingly there's a lot there but after about ten minutes you're hungry again.