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Is the US Postcolonial?

Published on Feb 20, 2018

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Is the US Postcolonial?

Transnationalism, Immigration, and Race
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Jenny Sharpe

Professor of English, Gender Studies, and Comparative Literature
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Postcolonial

Umbrella term for diasporic and minority communities?
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Diaspora Ex-Colonials in Britain

  • Repressed past splits national identity
  • Guest worker status
  • "immigrant" excludes those from "nation" community
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Third-World Immigrant in Europe

Theoretical Model within Postcolonial Studies
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PostColonialism Studies in the US

  • African Amerians
  • Chicanos
  • Native Americans
  • Internal colonization? Some groups still colonized within U?
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Third World Movement

San Francisco State University
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Immigration and Racism

Internal colonization
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Postcolonial US

  • Appropriated land from Native Americans
  • Incorporated parts of Mexico
  • Imported slaves and indentured servants from Africa and Asia
  • Policy in Philippines, Latin America, and East Asia accounts for immigration
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Post Colonial

Internal social relations intersect w/ global capitalism & intl division of labor
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Defining Post Colonialism

  • Internal social relations intersect w/ global capitalism & intl division of labor
  • Neocolonial relations the US entered into with decolonized states
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Center-perifory Model

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Transnational Class of Elites

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PostColonial Studies and the Multiculturalism Paradigm

  • Growth of Ethnic studies departments
  • Eurocentric discourse
  • Implications for the rise of multiculturalism
  • 1965 Immigration Act
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Modern Immigration to US

  • 1980s: Decade of Immigration
  • 80 percent of immigrants to US from Asia, Central America, Mexico, and Carribean
  • Immigrant refers just to "people of color"?
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US Immigration in the Modern Era

  • The Bell Curve and US Nativism
  • Nation of Nations: Mosaic or quilt instead of melting pot
  • Downside of multiculturalism?
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Politics of Race

The model minority and more
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1990s Immigration Act

Tripling the rate of skilled workers
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Articulating the "PostColonial"

In Asia American Studies

Carolyn Meyer