Author Archives: Phuong Ngo Ha

Of all readings in this class, the title of this book used such vivid imagery that it struck me for seconds. Throughout the book, the author continues to rely on visual elements to communicate his raw observations by using images … Continue reading →

In her book, Ana-Maurine Lara argues that being Black and queer challenges Christian colonial hermeticism and paves the way for values, knowledge, and being that never cease to exist despite the colonial order’s attempts to marginalize, deny, and eradicate. The dominating theme throughout the … Continue reading →

The extent of Garcia involvement in her site work truly reflects through her vivid descriptions and makes her writing arguably more emotional than the previous pieces we read. I was personally stuck by the opening story in Chapter 5, which revolved … Continue reading →

This week’s reading is arguably among my favorites so far. One of the issues that concerned me with previous readings is the accessibility of those materials. In other words, despite the valuable insights carried within those texts, the texts’ format … Continue reading →

As I read ““Hindustan Is a Dream”: Urdu Poetry and the Political Theology of Intimacy”, which revolves around poetic attempts to resist exclusionary practices against Muslims in India, I found myself following the portrayal of women throughout the text and … Continue reading →

This reading carries a lot of similarities to our previous ethnographic readings (choosing a specific situation/ incidence to zoom in and then apply several theoretical lenses to analyze it). The text also resembles the Tsing and Exceptional Violence readings by … Continue reading →

One of Deborah Thomas’s central arguments is that “violence generally is not a cultural phenomenon but an effect of class formation, a process that is immanently racialized and gendered.” While I partly agree with this claim, since the attribution of … Continue reading →