Papers by Calvin Cheung-Miaw
Politics, Groups, and Identities, 2022
This article places Claire Jean Kim's racial triangulation theory in the context of Kim's other w... more This article places Claire Jean Kim's racial triangulation theory in the context of Kim's other writings from the late 1990s and early 2000s. I analyze Kim's theory not as an analytical framework of relational racialization, but as a guide to thinking through the basis of multiracial solidarity. I contend that the power of racial triangulation theory lay in the way it demonstrated how longterm alignments of interest among racial groups could emerge from differentiated racial positions. However, I also argue that Kim's theory was limited in assuming that racialization was the most important determinant of group interest. Through a reexamination of the 1994 lawsuit filed by Chinese American parents against the San Francisco Unified School District, Ho v. SFUSD, I suggest that comparative race scholars ought to account for class and other power relations within racial and ethnic groups, relations that produce divergent sets of interests unaccounted for by the framework of racial politics understood in terms of racialization and rearticulation.
Pacific Historical Review, 2021
This article examines the aftermaths of four murders: those of anti–Ferdinand Marcos activists Si... more This article examines the aftermaths of four murders: those of anti–Ferdinand Marcos activists Silme Domingo and Gene Viernes, and Kuomintang critics Chen Wen-Chen and Henry Liu. These murders all occurred during the Ronald Reagan presidential administration and relied upon the transnational reach of foreign governments into the United States. I explore how activists responded to these murders, focusing on the Committee for Justice for Domingo and Viernes, the Committee on Political Freedom, which was formed by Chen’s colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, and the Committee to Obtain Justice for Henry Liu. I argue that, in contrast to those radicals who saw oppression as flowing outward from the United States toward the Third World, these critics saw the transnational murders as symbolizing the growing convergence between domestic and foreign repression.
Amerasia Journal, 2019
Truckee, California is known to historians as the site of a late 19th century campaign to expel C... more Truckee, California is known to historians as the site of a late 19th century campaign to expel Chinese from the town by boycotting their employers. Before the “Truckee Method” of expulsion was implemented, however, Truckee’s Chinatown was first isolated from the rest of the town and then physically relocated. This article explores how boundaries between “Chinese space” and “white space” were constructed during this period, as fears that Chinese buildings were especially flammable became the basis for the belief that it was necessary to isolate “Chinese space” from “white space.” Although white employers of Chinese workers are often depicted as opposing anti-Chinese racism, we argue that white employers played a crucial role in the process of isolating and relocating Chinatown, drawing on their status and financial resources to determine where Chinese could live, work, and own property in Truckee.
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