Restricted Research - Award List, Note/Discussion Page
Fiscal Year: 2023
2023 The University of Texas at El Paso (143911)
Principal Investigator: Lee,Soyeon
Total Amount of Contract, Award, or Gift (Annual before 2011): $ 9,975
Exceeds $250,000 (Is it flagged?): No
Start and End Dates: 1/30/23 - 5/1/25
Restricted Research: YES
Academic Discipline: English
Department, Center, School, or Institute: English
Title of Contract, Award, or Gift: Asian/American Rhetoric after the Atlanta Shootings: Public Memory, Storytelling, and Technologies
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CONFERENCE ON COLLEGE COMPOSITION & COMM
Program Title: #N/A
Note:
This two-year project aims to examine Asian/American1 discourses and grassroots storytelling in the wake of the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings through social justice lenses. We analyze the public discourse of anti-Asian racism around the Atlanta shootings, juxtaposing this formation against Asian/American communities’ activism and rhetorical agency against anti-Asian racism. Specifically, we discuss how the media and the communities themselves have (trans)formed the rhetoric of Asian/Americans, attending to how the design of storytelling technologies affords Asian/American stories, while curtailing the potential to rewrite rhetoric of immigration and citizenship. We ask: 1. How have public and counterpublic rhetorics surrounding Asian/Americans been operating in the wake of the tlanta shootings in transnational contexts? 2. How have Asian/American communities enacted their rhetorical ethos and agency to the Atlanta shootings? 3. How have technological affordances and limitations shaped Asian/American communities’ rhetorical practices?
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