Read the introduction to WHO IS THE ASIANIST?: THE POLITICS OF REPRESENTATION IN ASIAN STUDIES, edited by Will Bridges, Nitasha Tamar Sharma, and Marvin D. Sterling. This work reconsiders the past, present, and future of Asian Studies through the lens of positionality, questions of authority, and an analysis of race with an emphasis on Blackness in Asia. Published by the Association for Asian Studies and distributed by Columbia University Press.
