Visible solidarities: #Asians4BlackLives and affective racial counterpublics

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

This article examines how uses of "Asian-ness" as racial presence becomes used discursively and visually to form affective racial counterpublics around #Asians4BlackLives/#Justice4AkaiGurley and #SavePeterLiang/#Justice4Liang. Specifically, I look at how how Asian American racial positioning becomes deployed in order to produce feelings of solidarity. Approaching hashtags as both indexical signifiers of solidarity and as an indexing system that archives together an array of media objects, I track media objects across multiple sites in order to examine visual modes of storytelling that affectively mobilize publics and investigate solidarity as discursively mediated, embodied, and affective phenomena. I closely examine how #SavePeterLiang protestors create narratives of victimization in response to the singularity of Liang's racial body and how the #Asians4BlackLives selfie project uses representational visibility to activate affective politics.

Object Details

• ISSN: 1736-8758
• Extent: Seite(n): 40-54
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Studies of Transition States and Societies, 10(2)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Soziale Probleme und Sozialdienste ; Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen ; soziale Probleme ; interaktive, elektronische Medien ; Digitale Medien ; Politik ; Affektivität ; Rasse ; Solidarität ; USA ; Asien

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kuo, Rachel
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (when): 2018

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-62616-8
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:26 PM CEST