Seeing the extraordinary in the ordinaries

I share Some thoughts and reflections while Working in, through, and against the existing archives and dominant memoryscapes.

Each post represents my preliminary thoughts on many different topics & projects that I’m working on. Due to its evolving, personal nature, please do not circulate, quote from, copy or cite without permission of the author.

Seokweon Jeon 4/1/25 Seokweon Jeon 4/1/25

"We Must Christianize Them, or They Will Heathenize Us"

Rev. Osgood Church Wheeler and the Religious Framing of Chinese Exclusion: Biblical Imagery, Domestic Anxiety, and Visual Culture in California’s Anti-Chinese Debates, 1879–1882

Seokweon Jeon 7/20/22 Seokweon Jeon 7/20/22

“matched par avion”

Race, gender, and religion have co-constituted in the gendered racialization of Asian women as racially foreign and unassimilable, sexually excessive and promiscuous, and morally and religiously perverse and deficient.