And my thought about Le-Long Khack's writing. I think Ethnic Studies are dismantling inside the category??? they were assinged, they were put to be claimed, knowing that this category is one of the many categories that matter, and there is no such thing as an ethnic unity. Ethnic studies started with oppositional asumptions??? agendas to the mainstream whatever. Ethnic Studies is dealing with its name itself, born out of white supremacy or euro-centered and But if race is something historically constructed, we can also deconstruct and reconstruct other identities too.
xi. the ethnic studies moment could then also be seen as the displacement of those narratives of white American national homogeneity by new ones that responded to a much more international imaginary (Third World anticolonialist struggles, socialist and anticapitalist movements) that stressed not American exceptionalism but the multiple connections likning its diverse ethnic polulations with "foreign" national cultures. Somewhat paradoxically, nationalist movements fueled an international imaginary. xiii. it could also be argues that this disciplinary map was constituted by a fundamental denial of coevalness whereby the West produced knowledge about the present and the future, while the rest afforded an oportunity to know, via field trips, the past (Clifford 1986). xxii. “My own idea of a Latino/a Amerian world-regional imaginary and space attempts to circumscribe not ahistorical essences but grounded sociocultural processes and circuits well illustrated in t...