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The Perpetually Conditional Citizens

In: Organizational Communication and Technology in the Time of Coronavirus

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  • Kerk Fong Kee

    (Texas Tech University)

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According to StopAAPIHate.org, between March 2020 and March 2021, there were almost 4000 anti-Asian hate crimes documented by their website. In this chapter, I reflexively documented the story of the Chinese Faculty and Staff Association (CFSA) at Texas Tech University over an approximately 12-month period, and how they put together the LOVE (Lubbock cOVid-19 rElief) Projects in Spring 2020, which included multiple community service and funding activities. Behind the public messages and community service was the fear of becoming the victims of anti-Asian hate crimes. This ethnography documented how (a) an Asian association organized community service events branded Chinese as good citizens (impression management), but in private also (b) built relationships with the police department (alliance building), (c) created a ‘Lubbock Chinese Friends of Guns Group’ on WeChat (self-reliance), and (d) met weekly on Friday for 30 mins on Zoom for what they called the ‘CFSA Weekend Square’ to maintain an active informal network (ongoing conversations). This ethnography reveals that CFSA members (sub)consciously realized that their belonging to the local community and the US is perpetually conditional (and alienated) due to their race and ethnicity.

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  • Kerk Fong Kee, 2022. "The Perpetually Conditional Citizens," Springer Books, in: Larry D. Browning & Jan-Oddvar Sørnes & Peer Jacob Svenkerud (ed.), Organizational Communication and Technology in the Time of Coronavirus, chapter 0, pages 377-394, Springer.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-94814-6_20
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94814-6_20
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