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2008 ASA Panel on Re-Articulation: Ethnic Celebrations as Political Acts
| Location: | New Mexico, United States |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2008-03-06 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-01-15 |
| Announcement ID: |
160328 |
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For the 2008 ASA Annual Meeting in Albuquerque, NM in October 2008, I am seeking to put together a panel that examines how heterogeneous ethnic communities come to formulate and understand strategies for communal representation in the form of ethnic festivals and/or celebrations. This panel will consider ethnic celebrations as political and cultural acts, elements in a process of self-identification that must be studied in the specific historical context from which they emerged, to examine the multivalent motivations of the event sponsors and to understand public receptions. My work addresses the efforts of a small Japanese American community in St. Louis to hold the first annual St. Louis Japanese Festival in the 1970s, a decade that witnessed the reinforcement of Orientalist constructions of Japan and an increase in anti-Asian sentiment.
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Jaclyn Jones
Doctoral Student
Saint Louis University
Department of American Studies
Email: jjones85@slu.edu
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