identity

Interaction and Identity in a New York Asian Cram School

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Typically viewed as a staple of childhood life in East Asia, cram schools are private educational institutions offering additional academic instruction during non-school hours. Over the past few decades, hundreds if not thousands of Asian American-run cram schools have been established throughout the United States, proliferating across urban areas particularly in Asian American enclaves. Despite this recent boom of Asian American cram schools, there has been very little research that examines how these educational sites affect the academic and identity development of youth.

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Constructing National Identity in Post-Colonial India

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Based on Ravi Kalia’s latest publication, Gandhinagar, this presentation traces India’s efforts to establish its twentieth-century architectural identity. Kalia explains that Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat in western India, became a battleground for the competing ideals that had surfaced during the building of Chandigarh and Bhubaneswar. Exploring the impact of modernist architecture on India as … Read more

Globalization and Gender in India

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This presentation is set against the backdrop of neo-liberal policies of economic reform instituted in India in 1991.  I examine the decade of the 1990s as a period of dramatic change from prior decades of Independent India.  I suggest that with the opening of the Indian economy in conjunction with the privatization of television the … Read more

The Long Road to Becoming Taiwanese: History and Identity Formation on an Offshore Chinese Island/Nation

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As Taiwan was settled by waves of Han-Chinese from the Minnan speaking areas of Fujian and the Hakka-speaking areas of northern Guangdong, a sense of both local, regional and island – wide identity began to develop. By the 1870s, Taiwan had become a province of the Qing Empire, thus reinforcing the people’s sense of being … Read more