Communication ETDs

Publication Date

Summer 7-30-2024

Abstract

Employing critical diasporic rhetoric to articulate the pull and push glimmer of essentialist and nationalistic agendas of constructing Vietnamese diasporic subjectivities, I elucidate the complicated structure of diasporic nationalism that gives shape to ambiguities, paradoxes, and contradictions of Vietnamese diasporic withdrawal and regroupment in interethnic politics. Through three case studies explicating Vietnamese diasporic responses to the Chinese virus rhetorics, the appearance of the South Vietnamese flag on January 6 Capitol grounds, and the Atlanta shootings in Saigon Broadcasting Television Networks (SBTN), I highlight how Vietnamese diasporic authorities perform and enact citizenships of becoming desirable, which elevates oppressive forces of ideological arrangements embedded in implicit yellowfaces, diasporic patriotism, and postwar model minorities. The project open avenues for discussing philosophical, theoretical, and methodological implications on media activism, coalitional politics, (counter)publicities, vernacular discourses, media effects, media structures, and media algorithmic empires.

Language

English

Keywords

Critical Diasporic Rhetoric, Asian/American Media, Vietnamese/American Diasporic Media, Interethnic & Coalitional Rhetoric, SBTN, Postwar Model Minorities

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Communication

Level of Degree

Doctoral

Department Name

Department of Communication and Journalism

First Committee Member (Chair)

Dr. Shinsuke Eguchi

Second Committee Member

Dr. Ilia Rodriguez Nazario

Third Committee Member

Dr. Michael Lechuga

Fourth Committee Member

Dr. Cleophas Muneri

Fifth Committee Member

Dr. Vincent Pham

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