The State and Subject of Asian American Criticism: Psychoanalysis, Transnational Discourse, and Democratic Ideals

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 603-624
Author(s):  
D. L. Li
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
The State ◽  
Democratic Ideals ◽  
Transnational Discourse

The State of Asian American Businesses

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 70-77
Author(s):  
Diem Tran ◽  
OiYan Poon
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The State ◽  
Business Success ◽  
American Business ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Business Ownership ◽  
Careful Scrutiny ◽  
Potential Factors ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Business success is a dominant theme in the Asian American narrative. However, Asian American entrepreneurship is more complex and multilayered than commonly believed and requires careful scrutiny. This brief examines the state of Asian American business ownership between 2005 and 2007. Findings suggest that although Asian Americans form businesses at higher rates than other racial/ethnic minorities, Asian American business ownership and outcomes continue to trail those of non-Hispanic whites. Potential factors contributing to racial/ethnic gaps and policy recommendations are discussed.

Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
Brian Masaru Hayashi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Family History ◽  
Asian American ◽  
State Department ◽  
The United States ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
Trojan Horse ◽  
The State ◽  
Foreign Agent ◽  
Double Agent

Each of the three Asian American suspects were considered and then dismissed as the Trojan Horse within the OSS. The suspicion that the double agent was someone with a short family history in the United States was proven incorrect. Instead, the foreign agent inside the OSS was one whose family heritage traced back to the American Revolutionary War and whose ancestor signed the Declaration of Independence. Yet blame for the intelligence leakage to a foreign power ultimately rests on the FBI, the State Department, and the director of the OSS itself for their inadequacies in securing classified documents and ineptitude at counterintelligence.

Effects of the state’s informal practices on organisational capability and social inclusion: Three cases of city governance in Johannesburg

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802091011
Author(s):  
Li Pernegger
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Local Level ◽  
The State ◽  
City Administration ◽  
Resource Limitations ◽  
Informal Practices ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Democratic Ideals ◽  
Competing Priorities

Despite state actors’ uses of informal practices in urban governance, their prominence in changing policy is little acknowledged by scholars. Their effects are even less examined. Such informal practices inextricably link with and impact on formal ones, and have consequences for the state and citizens, especially at the local level. This article presents three cases of contested urban governance from Johannesburg’s post-apartheid city administration. The cases reveal pivotal informal practices in response to challenges encountered in local urban governance, informed by multiple complex and (sometimes absent) formal practices, contexts, timings and players. Responding to different pressures, local-level state actors deliberately applied different sorts of informal practices. These pressures included the need to cope with immediate problems, conflictual relationships, political agendas, lobbying groups, competing priorities and resource limitations. The effects of informal practices on the local government’s organisational capability and citizens’ social inclusion are evident and varied. Findings imply that the state’s informal practices and their effects shape governance in ways that undermine or uphold democratic ideals, thus warranting more mindful scrutiny than given so far.

scholarly journals Re-introduction of dengue virus serotype 2 in the state of Rio de Janeiro after almost a decade of epidemiological silence

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torres María Celeste ◽  
Fernanda de Bruycker Nogueira ◽  
Fernandes Carlos Augusto ◽  
Louzada Silva Meira Guilherme ◽  
Ferreira de Aguiar Shirlei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Dengue Virus ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
The State ◽  
Viral Strain ◽  
Virus Serotype ◽  
Viral Lineage ◽  
Dengue Virus Serotype 2 ◽  
Dengue Epidemics

AbstractThe Asian/American genotype of dengue virus serotype 2 (DENV-2) has been introduced in Brazil through the state of Rio de Janeiro around 1990, and since then it has been spreading and evolving, leading to several waves of dengue epidemics throughout the country that cause a major public health problem. Of particular interest has been the epidemic of 2008, whose highest impact was evidenced in the state of Rio de Janeiro, with a higher number of severe cases and mortality rate, compared to previous outbreaks. Interestingly, no circulation of DENV-2 was witnessed in this region during the preceding 9-year period. By early 2010, phylogenetic analysis of the 2008 epidemic strain revealed that the outbreak was caused by a new viral lineage of the Asian/American genotype, which was pointed as responsible for the outbreak severity as well. The same scenario is repeating in 2019 in this state; however, only a few cases have been detected yet. To provide information that helps to the understanding of DENV-2 dynamics in the state of Rio de Janeiro, and thereafter contribute to public health control and prevention actions, we employed phylogenetic studies combined with temporal and dynamics geographical features to determine the origin of the current viral strain. To this effect, we analyzed a region of 1626 nucleotides entailing the Envelope/NS1 viral genes. Our study reveals that the current strain belongs to the same lineage that caused the 2008 outbreak, however, it is phylogenetically distant from any Brazilian strain identified so far. Indeed, it seemed to be originated in Puerto Rico around 2002 and has been introduced into the state in late 2018. Taking into account that no DENV-2 case was reported over the last decade in the state (representing a whole susceptible children generation), and the fact that a new viral strain may be causing current dengue infections, these results will be influential in strengthening dengue surveillance and disease control, mitigating the potential epidemiological consequences of virus spread.Author SummaryBy the time dengue virus serotype 2 (DENV-2) was introduced into Brazil through the state of Rio de Janeiro in 1990, the first dengue hemorrhagic cases started to evidence as well. Years of seasonal outbreaks were followed by almost ten years oy epidemiological silence in the state. However, in 2007 this serotype was re-introduced into the state causing one of the worst dengue epidemics ever described in the country. The same viral genotype was involved, however, a different viral lineage was detected and pointed as responsible for the outbreak severity. This same scenario could repeat nowadays in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Since new DENV-2 cases are being detected in this region, we analyzed the identity and origin of the viral strain obtained from two infected patients. Phylogeny combined with temporal and geographical analyses of viral sequences demonstrated that the strain causing 2019’s dengue cases belonged to the same lineage as the one causing the outbreak in 2008, but to a different subgroup, and might have originated in Puerto Rico and entered the state in recent times. These results may represent a crucial starting point for strengthening Brazilian surveillance systems and disease control, helping to reduce the impact of a potential epidemic of great magnitude.

Fighting “Gooks”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simeon Man
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Third World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Experiences ◽  
The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Experience

This chapter examines the social experiences of Asian Americans who fought in the Vietnam War. Their collective experience of being racialized as “gooks,” alongside the burgeoning movements for Third World liberation in the United States, drove many Asian American veterans to understand the violence of the war as an intrinsic part of the state-sanctioned violence faced by Asian American and other racialized communities in the United States. Asian American veterans came home from the war and became active participants in the Asian American movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Our Names: An Open Letter to Asian Sisters

October ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 5-8
Author(s):  
Pamela M. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
The State ◽  
Asian Women ◽  
Open Letter ◽  
Asian Descent ◽  
Contemporary Climate

Abstract This open letter responds to the murders of six women of Asian descent on March 16, 2021, all workers in Atlanta-area massage parlors. It describes both the contemporary climate and the historical foundations for anti-Asian/AAPI racism in the country, and it reflects on both the promise and the violence that inheres in acts of naming and nomination for Asian women. In its address to “Asian sisters,” the letter challenges the terms of Asian American representation and considers larger discussions among BIPOC scholars about whether to refuse institutional recognition by the state.

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