Hip-Hop Gangsta or Most Deserving of Victims? Transnational Migrant Identities and the Paradox of Tibetan Racialization in the USA
| العنوان: | Hip-Hop Gangsta or Most Deserving of Victims? Transnational Migrant Identities and the Paradox of Tibetan Racialization in the USA |
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| المؤلفون: | Kunga T. Lama, Emily T. Yeh |
| المصدر: | Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 38:809-829 |
| بيانات النشر: | SAGE Publications, 2006. |
| سنة النشر: | 2006 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | White (horse), Internalized racism, 05 social sciences, Geography, Planning and Development, 0211 other engineering and technologies, 0507 social and economic geography, 021107 urban & regional planning, Gender studies, Cultural politics, 02 engineering and technology, Environmental Science (miscellaneous), Politics, Ethnography, Racialization, Sociology, SWORD, 050703 geography, Articulation (sociology) |
| الوصف: | This ethnographic paper examines the complex cultural politics of Tibetan transnational migration by examining racialized everyday practices in Tibetan communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and Boulder, Colorado. After providing an overview of Tibetan migration to the USA, we discuss migrants' contradictory insertion into American racial bipolarism. On the one hand, Tibetans' racialized class positions place them at the lower end of a spectrum of moral deserving and worth. On the other hand, the discursive practices of the transnational Tibet Movement and the traveling of Tibetan Buddhist institutions to the USA ‘whitens’ Tibetans by making them seem particularly worthy and deserving of sponsorship. After exploring the production of Tibetan migrant subjectivities through white sponsorship, we examine how the successful articulation of Tibetan identities for a transnational political struggle is a double-edged sword which has unintended, and sometimes violent consequences. These play out in various ways, including intergenerational struggles over hip-hop and internalized racism. |
| تدمد: | 1472-3409 0308-518X |
| DOI: | 10.1068/a37218 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::c61cbbb82bfdf22510d919c40a1a44df https://doi.org/10.1068/a37218 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....c61cbbb82bfdf22510d919c40a1a44df |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14723409 0308518X |
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| DOI: | 10.1068/a37218 |