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Reframing Asian American Studies: Beyond Borders Through Hemispheric and Transpacific Lenses

Addressing this year’s theme of re-orienting Asian American Studies, this roundtable brings together scholars who broaden the geographical, temporal, and spatial scope of Asian American Studies. Their work explores Asian Latina/o communities across the Americas, shifting the focus of Asian American Studies and challenging traditional subjects, objects, and geographies within the field. They deconstruct and decenter the term “American” in Asian American Studies, a term that is often monopolized within the U.S. overlooking Central, South, and Latin Americans. Olivieri and Serrano-Muñoz, in edited volume East Asia, Latin America, and the Decolonization of Transpacific Studies (2022) argued that the expanding field of transpacific studies, which focuses on the movement of people, goods, and ideas in and around the Pacific, must involve Latin America to dismantle its North-centric knowledge production. The roundtable participants will discuss questions related to the diverse Asian diasporic communities and their histories in Latin America. Participants will address these questions drawing from their interdisciplinary scholarship and hemispheric and transpacific methodologies and approaches that uncover the hidden stories and experiences within these communities in Asian American Studies.

Henrique Yagui Takahashi

Dartmouth College - Postdoc Researcher

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