摘要：The objective of this article is two-fold: First, it argues for critical engagement between Hmong Studies and Asian American Studies. Second, to illustrate the productivity of such engagement, this article analyzes the media coverage of an incident involving Hmong American farmers and their white neighbors in Eagan, Minnesota, June 2010. The focal question is how media discourses around farming and immigration serve to racialize Hmong American identities. This analysis shows that Hmong Americans experience "Asiatic racialization" in that they are either discursively cast outside of the imagined American nation, or included contingent upon assimilation and conformity. Critiquing both the exclusionary and assimilative narratives, this article explicates the inherent contradictions of the U.S. nationalism, referencing both existing Hmong Studies literature and Asian Americanist discourses on race and nation. Both bodies of work foreground the historical and social construction of identities, as well as the simultaneous, intertwined workings of race, class, gender/sexuality and nation. Critical dialogues could generate new ideas and possibilities for both Asian American Studies and Hmong Studies
关键词：Hmong Studies; Asian American Studies; Hmong Americans in the media ; var currentpos;timer; function initialize() { timer=setInterval("scrollwindow()";10);} function sc(){clearInterval(timer); }function scrollwindow() { currentpos=document.body.scrollTop; window.scroll(0;++currentpos); if (currentpos != document.body.scrollTop) sc();} document.onmousedown=scdocument.ondblclick=initializeThe Mediated Figure of Hmong Farmer; Hmong Studies; and Asian American Critique by Hui Niu Wilcox; Hmong Studies Journal ; ;13.1(2012): 1-27. ;2 ;"Hmong Pages spent an afternoon ¡ to share and follow up on the farming incident that ;occurred last month when a man from Eagan loaded a 12-gauge shotgun in plain view of ;Xiong in an effort to intimidate [the Hmong couple] over a property dispute." (Vue; ;Hmong Pages; August 1; 2010) ;"More than 40 growers sought restraining orders against a nearby resident who police say ;used a loaded shotgun to threaten a Hmong couple working in the field." (Yuen; ;Minnesota Public Radio; July 9; 2010) ;"A man confronted a Hmong-American couple working in their field; which is adjacent ;to his land. He was agitated; their English wasn't great. He said he was going to kill ;them; and then left and returned with a loaded shotgun; according to the farmers." (Ly ;and Stokes; Star Tribune; June 30; 2010) ;These are snippets of a Minnesotan story involving Hmong American farmers and their white ;American neighbour in the summer of 2010; told by three different media outlets. I have found ;this story intriguing for multiple reasons. I was; at the time; doing ethnographic research about ;Hmong American farmers in Minnesota; thus paying attention to all stories related to farming. ;Secondly; as a sociologist of race/ethnicity and immigration; I am always interested in how ;Asian Americans and immigrants experience race and racism. What immediately captured my ;sociological imagination was that very few parties involved were willing to tell the story in ways ;that implicate race or racism. The conspicuous denial of race in this discourse; or the "masking ;of race" (Schein and Thoj 2007); paradoxically informs us of the racialized reality in the U.S. ;Last but not the least; I am a Chinese-born American sociologist simultaneously involved with ;Asian American Studies and Hmong Studies. Trying to make sense of this incident has allowed ;me to think through the productive tension between these two fields. ;In this article; I will argue for Hmong Studies to critically engage with Asian American ;Studies; by way of positioning myself and by way of analyzing the media narratives and ;discourses around this Hmong American story about farming and violence. This analysis serves ;as a micro site where I trace the uneasy relationship between Hmong Studies and Asian ;American Studies and imagine a future of mutually generative engagement between the two
