
Published online:
23 January 2025
Published in print:
07 May 2024
Online ISBN:
9780252056673
Print ISBN:
9780252045790
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Liu, Wen, 'Sideways to Asian America', Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility Between Assimilation and Oppression (Champaign, IL , 2024; online edn, Illinois Scholarship Online, 23 Jan. 2025), https://doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252045790.003.0005, accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
Throughout this book, I have troubled the “radical outsiderness” of Asian Americanness to the US racial order, wherein minor acts of Asian American agency are highlighted to preserve the centrality of Asian Americans in their own injured history. Instead of thinking about power as functioning vertically between the binary of oppressor and oppressed, I propose a “sideways” approach of forming agency that points to an array of possibilities and positions beyond the linear immigrant narrative of integration and vertical aspiration toward whiteness. Sideways refers to a constant movement of leaving and reentering that builds movements beside the others.
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Gender and Sexuality
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