{"id":5,"date":"2006-11-08T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-dub.com\/cv\/?p=5"},"modified":"2022-08-09T18:10:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T18:10:07","slug":"these-are-the-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;These Are the Breaks: Hip-Hop and AfroAsian Cultural (Dis) Connections&#8221; (Essay)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/afroasian.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/afroasian.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-130\" width=\"282\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/afroasian.jpeg 333w, https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/afroasian-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Wang, Oliver. &#8220;These Are the Breaks: Hip-Hop and AfroAsian Cultural (Dis) Connections.&#8221; In\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/nyupress.org\/9780814775813\/afroasian-encounters\/\">AfroAsian<\/a> Encounters<\/em>, edited by\u00a0Heike Raphael-Hernandez,\u00a0Shannon Steen. New York University Press, 2006<\/strong>: <strong>146-164.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Anthology essay (solicited, refereed).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Discusses hip-hop as a symbolic space through which Asian\/African Americans encounter one another with both progressive and regressive results.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>Background: I was approached to write this essay by Dr. Steen because it was felt that their anthology needed something about how hip-hop spoke to this core idea of interracial encounters between African and Asian Americans. Writing the essay came at an ideal, though challenging time, since I was rethinking many of my previous assumptions about the nature of Afro-Asian relations and beginning to examine some of the difficult lines of fracture that ran through previously idealized narratives of solidarity. Especially since this essay&#8217;s writing was timed during the explosion of press around the Chinese American rapper, Jin, there was a backlash of sorts in effect, critiquing how Jin was being framed as the Asian David in a community of Black Goliaths. Combining that with some other experiences of racial tensions, I try to explore how hip-hop serves as an important &#8211; but uneven &#8211; terrain on which African and Asian Americans interact and negotiate social relations.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wang, Oliver. &#8220;These Are the Breaks: Hip-Hop and AfroAsian Cultural (Dis) Connections.&#8221; In\u00a0AfroAsian Encounters, edited by\u00a0Heike Raphael-Hernandez,\u00a0Shannon Steen. New York University Press, 2006: 146-164. Anthology essay (solicited, refereed). Discusses hip-hop as a symbolic space through which Asian\/African Americans encounter one another with both progressive and regressive results. Background: I was approached to write this essay&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,9,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academicessay","category-asian-americans","category-hip-hop","category-music","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}