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Refined Thesis: When Asian Americans occupy land previously held by…

- - - - Ma Vang, "Secrecy as Knowledge," from Secrecy, Fugitivity, and Hmong Refugee Epistemologies. Vang asserts that Hmong people and Laotians have been designated as racialized, expendable subjects whose countries are seen as empty of people due to their political neutrality. Highlights how Asian racialization and exclusion is tied to Western state designations of what people are allies or enemies. Strong discussions of decolonization in Laous and settler colonialism.
    - - Who decides? Who tells Asian American history?
        
        Trinh T. Minh-ha, "Mechanical Eye, Electronic Ear, and the Lure of Authenticity." Minh-ha delves into the Asian American documentary as a form of story telling, alternative to prevailing histories dripped in Orientalism. Argues how the Asian body comes into view on camera and how the camera captures a reality unlike any other.
        
        Lisa Kahaleole Hall, "Which of These Things is Not like the Other: Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders Are Not Asian Americans, and All Pacific Islanders Are Not Hawaiian." Hall answers the question of who is and who is not an Asian American, drawing focus to the distinctions between Pacific Islanders and Asian Americans. Argues that Pacific Islanders have lost sovereignty and opportunities for self-determination with the advent of the AAPI term and similar methods of political organizing. Strong connections to how Asian Americans become settlers of color when settler colonialism is ignored and native spaces are taken up without regard for the unique issues that indigenous people face who have been racialized parallel to Asians.
        
        Amy K. Stillman, “Pacific-ing Asian
        Pacific American History”
        Fulfills the need to grant Pacific Islanders self-determination and sovereignty in their history telling, separated from the Asian dominated narratives.
- - - - Bill Ong Hing, "Two Contrasting Schemes: Understanding Immigration Policies Affecting Asians Before and After 1965" from Making and Remaking Asian American Through Immigration Policy
- - - - Source: "Princeton Asian American Studies Task Force 1993 Report"
      - Source: "Princeton and Asian American Studies: A Report by the Princeton Asian American Students Association (AASA)" (2013).
      - Source: A timeline of Princeton
        Asian American Alumni Association