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Part Three - Solidarity/Disavowal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2023

Claire Jean Kim
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University of California, Irvine
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Part Three: “Solidarity/Disavowal,” looks at how Asian Americans developed a distinct political subjectivity during the Asian American movement, against the backdrop of emergent Black Power and the nation’s imminent turn toward mass incarceration. Asian American activists and thinkers denounced white supremacy and expressed solidarity with Black people under the Third World rubric, but they did not theorize structural anti-Blackness or recognize their own not-Blackness. Reproducing the fallacy of minority equivalence, their half-finished critique has hampered Asian Americans’ ability to understand and respond to numerous Asian–Black conflicts that have unfolded in the post-movement era—including the Los Angeles rebellion of 1992, the controversy around NYPD Officer Peter Liang’s killing of Akai Gurley in New York City in 2014, and protracted tensions over race-conscious admissions in secondary and higher education, culminating in the anti-affirmative action lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard. With the dramatic rise of a right-wing Chinese immigrant politics that seeks to dismantle affirmative action once and for all, the ethicalpolitical crisis that has always faced Asian Americans—namely, what they should do about being participant–beneficiaries in an anti-Black order—has become more urgent than ever.

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Print publication year: 2023

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  • Solidarity/Disavowal
  • Claire Jean Kim, University of California, Irvine
  • Book: Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World
  • Online publication: 22 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009222280.004
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  • Solidarity/Disavowal
  • Claire Jean Kim, University of California, Irvine
  • Book: Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World
  • Online publication: 22 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009222280.004
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  • Solidarity/Disavowal
  • Claire Jean Kim, University of California, Irvine
  • Book: Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World
  • Online publication: 22 June 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009222280.004
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