{"id":412,"date":"2012-06-27T05:44:18","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T05:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=412"},"modified":"2020-04-19T19:20:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T11:20:34","slug":"from-genealogy-inventory-the-situation-asian-american-studies-age-crisis-global-finance-capital-e-san-juan-jr","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=412","title":{"rendered":"From Genealogy to Inventory: The Situation of Asian American Studies in the Age of the Crisis of Global Finance Capital, by E. San Juan, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vol. 6, No. 1 (2010): 47\u201375.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The onset of global capitalism&#8217;s crisis has exposed the fragile theoretical\u00a0underpinnings of Asian American Studies as an academic discipline. Spellbound\u00a0by deconstructive, rhetorical assumptions, all symptomatic of commodityfetishism and alienation, mainstream Asian American critics continue to validate\u00a0neoliberal pluralism while claiming to value difference and singularity. While\u00a0rejecting American Exceptionalism, they ignore historical specificities and\u00a0endorse individualist norms, affects, genealogical plurality, and performative\u00a0discourses uncritical of free-market reification. What is needed is a return to a\u00a0mode of critical inventory that takes account of historical capitalism, imperialist\u00a0geopolitics, and the notion of collective agency necessary to destroy racialised\u00a0ideological practices and institutions that maintain the exploitative capitalist division of labor, social injustice, and inequality of peoples based on private\u00a0appropriation of social wealth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author&#8217;s bio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">E. San Juan, Jr. is emeritus professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Ethnic Studies at various universities in the U.S. He was recently a fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University, and Fulbright professor of American Studies at Leuven University, Belgium. Currently he directs the Philippines Cultural Studies Center at Storrs, Connecticut, USA. His recent books are US Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines (Palgrave), Toward Filipino Self-Determination (SUNY Press), From Globalization to National Liberation (University of the Philippines Press), and Critique and Social Transformation (The Edwin Mellen Press). 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