Interiors and Homemaking in Displacement: A Study of Vietnamese Americans in Southern California by Mazumdar, Sanjoy; Mazumdar, ShampaThis paper examines how displaced immigrants create meaningful spaces for themselves in a setting with vastly different customs, values, buildings, and institutions. Through a naturalistic field study, this paper examines in detail the choices, preferences, and decisions made by Vietnamese Americans in Southern California to rebuild their homes and interiors. Salient in their conceptualizations of homemaking were multigenerational family and genealogical linkages with ancestors and extended kin, as well as ritual linkages through worship, food, décor, and spatial requirements. The lessons from this study on homemaking in displacement also reveal the following emergent concepts: home as cultural investment-interior spaces created to facilitate culture specific living, lifestyle, use, activities, and interactions; home as cultural accommodation-spaces modified and transformed to accommodate cultural values and preferences; and home as cultural repository-home as a container for artifacts, paintings, art, and more. All of the above were significant in Vietnamese American homemaking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Asian American Architecture: Mapping the Field and Its FuturesThe Society of Architectural Historians presented this roundtable during the SAH 2020 Virtual Conference.
Moderators: Gail Dubrow, University of Minnesota, Sean H. McPherson, Bridgewater State University, and Itohan Osayimwese, Brown University
The site of multiple intersections of great significance to the Asian diaspora in the
United States, Seattle has fostered both scholarship and community activism related
to the historic preservation of Asian American cultural landscapes. Seattle provides the historical context for this meeting to critically map the development and current state of the field of Asian American architectural history, and to chart interdisciplinary directions for its future transformation. We will discuss how scholarship integrated with political action continues to connect Asian American architectural history with the aspirations of Asian Americans for social justice.
Panelists:
Sujin Eom, Dartmouth College
Lynne Horiuchi, Independent Scholar
Priya Jain, Texas A & M University
Min Kyung Lee, Bryn Mawr College
Ken Tadashi Oshima, University of Washington
Arijit Sen, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Desiree Valadares, University of California, Berkeley