Week Five: Wong

Contextualizing “Denationalization Reconsidered”

1.     Immigrant Model of ES:  p. 4, 11, 16

2.     Historical Approach to ES: 

3.     Review Rabasa’s piece from week one, pp. 195-99

4.     The Central Question of Wong’s Piece:  Diasporic Prespective (p. 2, p. 10) and or a Domestic Perspective (p. 2).  Place in conversation with Parreñas and Sui

5.     Note Wong’s definition and understanding of each of these perspectives and be able to clarify each, and remember they reflect her theoretical/political frames and reading materials.  Consequently, you must be aware of your own theoretical and political frameworks.

6.     Critique of the “trajectory of growth” for people of color in the U.S. p. 13

7.     Decolonial thinking p. 17

8.     Exilic sensibility p. 15

9.     Question of political interventions p. 18

10. Critique of the nation state p. 17

11. Critique of being “just a human being” p. 19

12. Concept of Asian American p. 17

13. Ling-Chi Wang’s four founding principles of ES p. 20

14. Coming back to roots and routes p. 19