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Visible solidarities: #Asians4BlackLives and affective racial counterpublics
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Abstract This article examines how uses of "Asian-ness" as racial presence becomes used discursively and visually to form affective racial counterpublics around #Asians4BlackLives/#Justice4AkaiGurley and #SavePeterLiang/#Justice4Liang. Specifically, I look at how how Asian American racial positioning becomes... view more
This article examines how uses of "Asian-ness" as racial presence becomes used discursively and visually to form affective racial counterpublics around #Asians4BlackLives/#Justice4AkaiGurley and #SavePeterLiang/#Justice4Liang. Specifically, I look at how how Asian American racial positioning becomes deployed in order to produce feelings of solidarity. Approaching hashtags as both indexical signifiers of solidarity and as an indexing system that archives together an array of media objects, I track media objects across multiple sites in order to examine visual modes of storytelling that affectively mobilize publics and investigate solidarity as discursively mediated, embodied, and affective phenomena. I closely examine how #SavePeterLiang protestors create narratives of victimization in response to the singularity of Liang's racial body and how the #Asians4BlackLives selfie project uses representational visibility to activate affective politics.... view less
Keywords
affectivity; Asia; politics; digital media; race; solidarity; United States of America
Classification
Social Problems
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
activism; affect; Asian American
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 40-54
Journal
Studies of Transition States and Societies, 10 (2018) 2
ISSN
1736-8758
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed