Ong, Christina
(2020)
Out of the Basement: Forging Asian American Identity through the Basement Workshop.
Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
This thesis uncovers how and to what extent the establishment and early organizing activities of Basement Workshop (1969-1972) influenced the construction of an Asian American identity in juxtaposition to members’ identities that originated in their ethnic heritage. Through my research, I disrupt binary conceptions of the Asian diaspora as either a menace to white America or as bodies of docile complicity to white supremacy through an in-depth case study of Basement Workshop, the East Coast’s first pan-Asian political and arts organization.
Using interviews with former members of Basement Workshop and historical discourse analysis of the organization’s magazine publications, arts anthology, and organizational correspondences, I demonstrate how Basement Workshop developed an Asian American identity which encompassed ideas about anti-imperialism, anti-racism, and anti-sexism.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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Status: |
Unpublished |
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Date: |
17 January 2020 |
Date Type: |
Publication |
Defense Date: |
June 2019 |
Approval Date: |
17 January 2020 |
Submission Date: |
21 November 2019 |
Access Restriction: |
1 year -- Restrict access to University of Pittsburgh for a period of 1 year. |
Number of Pages: |
74 |
Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Sociology |
Degree: |
MA - Master of Arts |
Thesis Type: |
Master's Thesis |
Refereed: |
Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
collective identity, social movements, asian america |
Date Deposited: |
17 Jan 2020 14:28 |
Last Modified: |
17 Jan 2021 06:15 |
URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/37871 |
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