Learning to speak a new tongue : imagining a way that holds people together--an Asian American conversation

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Learning to speak a new tongue : imagining a way that holds people together--an Asian American conversation

Title remainder

imagining a way that holds people together--an Asian American conversation

Statement of responsibility

Fumitaka Matsuoka

Creator

• Matsuoka, Fumitaka

Subject

• Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity
• Group identity -- United States
• Cultural pluralism -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

What holds people together in a fragmented world? The response comes from a religious community that has not been very visible: Asian Americans. The author employs the threefold epistemological scaffold familiar to Asian Americans: (1) translocal value orientation embedded in the experiences of racialization, (2) a heightened sensitivity to pathos arising out of our dissonance with the societal norms and values, and (3) amphibolous spirituality, that is, a co-existence of multiple religious traditions without any resolution of their differences. The angle of vision embedded in this epistemological framework of Asian Americans' lives may well provide a clue to an alternate architectural paradigm in building a new peoplehood and to redefine democratic freedom as the historical paradigm of American peoplehood

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YDXCP

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no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography