Battle Battle: Engaging Diversity in the American Liberal Arts College
Lu J.
2020
Arts and Humanities in Higher Education
1
10.1177/1474022218757893
Battle Battle: Engaging Diversity in the American Liberal Arts College examines the production of an Asian American hip-hop musical, directed by the author, at a private liberal arts college in the US. This article demonstrates how the production process was determined by the complex history of racial formation and relations in America. Those who were extremely attached to standardized Eurocentric practices of control in education could only read this complexity as disorder and found the process to be out of control or anarchic. The author claims, however, that the process was necessarily anarchic insofar as the production was undertaken as a decolonizing project; an attempt to undermine structures of domination and employ an ethical and democratic way of working that directly conflicted with the violent constraints of White hegemony that are present in elite educational institutions. © The Author(s) 2018.
African American; Asian American; diversity; higher education; Hip-hop; theater education
Ahmed S., On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life, (2012); Baldwin J., A Talk to Teachers.” The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948–1985, pp. 325-332, (1985); Bruni F., (2014); Chiang M., The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies: Autonomy and Representation in the University, (2009); Fanon F., The Wretched of the Earth, (2005); Fellezs K., Enter the voice of the dragon: Fred Ho, Bruce Lee, and the Popular Avant-Garde, Yellow Power Yellow Soul: The Radical Art of Fred Ho, pp. 35-53, (2013); Forman M., The ‘Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop, (2001); Gerke M., (2013); Harney S., Fred M., The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study, (2013); Forever Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness, pp. 71-80, (2012); Jackson S., Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Toward the Third Resurrection, (2005); Ho F., Mullen B.V., Afro-Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans, (2008); Kelley R.D.G., Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class, (1994); Mazrui A.A., Black Orientalism? Further Reflections on 'Wonders of the African World'; Omatsu G., The ‘four prisons’ and the movement of liberation: Asian American activism from the 1960s to the 1990s, The State of Asian Pacific America: Activism and Resistance in the 1990s, pp. 19-69, (1994); Prashad V., Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity, (2002); Reynolds S., Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing about Hip Rock and Hip-Hop, (2009); Rios V.M., Racializing justice, disenfranchising lives: The hyper-criminalization of Black and Latino male youth in the era of mass incarceration, Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society, 8, 2, pp. 40-54, (2006); Tiongson A.T., Filipinos Represent: DJs, Racial Authenticity, and the Hip-Hop Nation, (2013)
SAGE Publications Ltd
Article
Scopus