Status Updates From Immigrant Acts: On Asian Am...

I was assigned a chapter of this during high school and it dazzled me at the time, with its dense and heavily-endnoted paragraphs. Now? It's frustrating to be subjected to giant notes on Adorno, Althusser, Hall, Foucault, Homi Bhabha, &c. when Lowe completely butchers the concept of abstract labor in an attempt to "provincialize" Marx as supposedly part of the ignorant European universalisms. Master the basics first!

Me, reads a chatper: oh.... Oh. *lies down and processes*

As I've read lots of texts in Asian American scholarship, one of the most discussed/recurring texts is Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée... and the desire to read that keeps growing.

i love reading books that are too smart for me 💕💕💕 academia 💕💕💕