Ideological blackening, masculinity and comparative racialization

This contribution uses a comparative racialization framing to revisit Aihwa Ong’s notion of ideological blackening as applied to Southeast Asian refugee youth. Examining a case study of a Hmong teen in Wisconsin who received a long adult sentence based on his imputed gangster status, it disrupts gen...

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Published inHAU journal of ethnographic theory Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 1061 - 1063
Main Author Schein, Louisa
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published The University of Chicago Press 01.12.2020
Subjects
criminalization
racialization
incarceration
colorblindness
refugee
citizenship
Hmong
masculinity
Asian American
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Summary:This contribution uses a comparative racialization framing to revisit Aihwa Ong’s notion of ideological blackening as applied to Southeast Asian refugee youth. Examining a case study of a Hmong teen in Wisconsin who received a long adult sentence based on his imputed gangster status, it disrupts generalized attributions to East Asian Americans of femininity and honorary whiteness. It interrogates instead the specific conditions that allow Southeast Asian newcomer young men to be treated as racially unmarked but implicitly “blackened” in the American racial order, and thereby sometimes subject to the state violence, excessive policing, and judicial overreach that have been denounced for Black Americans.
ISSN:2575-1433
2049-1115
DOI:10.1086/712233