Hip-Hop Gangsta or Most Deserving of Victims? Transnational Migrant Identities and the Paradox of Tibetan Racialization in the USA
Hip-Hop Gangsta or Most Deserving of Victims? Transnational Migrant Identities and the Paradox of Tibetan Racialization in the USA
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嘻哈黑帮还是最该受害的人？
DOI：
10.1068/a37218
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发表时间：
2006
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通讯作者：
Kunga T. Lama
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作者：
E. Yeh;Kunga T. Lama
这篇民族志论文通过考察在旧金山弗朗西斯科湾区和科罗拉多博尔德的藏族社区中种族化的日常做法，来考察藏族跨国移民的复杂文化政治。在概述了西藏移民到美国之后，我们讨论了移民矛盾地插入美国种族两极化。一方面，藏人的种族化阶级地位使他们处于道德应得和价值的低端。另一方面，跨国西藏运动的话语实践和藏传佛教机构到美国的旅行使藏人“变白”，使他们看起来特别值得和值得赞助。在探讨了通过白色赞助的西藏移民主体性的产生之后，我们研究了如何成功地表达西藏人的身份，以进行跨国政治斗争，这是一把双刃剑，具有意想不到的，有时甚至是暴力的后果。这些以各种方式发挥作用，包括嘻哈音乐和内化的种族主义的代际斗争。
This ethnographic paper examines the complex cultural politics of Tibetan transnational migration by examining racialized everyday practices in Tibetan communities in the San Francisco Bay Area and Boulder, Colorado. After providing an overview of Tibetan migration to the USA, we discuss migrants' contradictory insertion into American racial bipolarism. On the one hand, Tibetans' racialized class positions place them at the lower end of a spectrum of moral deserving and worth. On the other hand, the discursive practices of the transnational Tibet Movement and the traveling of Tibetan Buddhist institutions to the USA ‘whitens’ Tibetans by making them seem particularly worthy and deserving of sponsorship. After exploring the production of Tibetan migrant subjectivities through white sponsorship, we examine how the successful articulation of Tibetan identities for a transnational political struggle is a double-edged sword which has unintended, and sometimes violent consequences. These play out in various ways, including intergenerational struggles over hip-hop and internalized racism.