{"id":812412,"date":"2022-09-25T05:55:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T05:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=255113"},"modified":"2022-09-25T05:55:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T05:55:28","slug":"the-usefulness-of-the-poc-identity-and-its-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/09\/25\/the-usefulness-of-the-poc-identity-and-its-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"The Usefulness of the \u201cPOC\u201d Identity and its Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_255114\" style=\"width: 690px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255114\" class=\"wp-image-255114 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/jon-tyson-Y1TAEMoWUb4-unsplash-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-255114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@jontyson\">Jon Tyson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Edison, part of the ever-expanding suburban sprawl in the heart of central New Jersey, is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newjersey-demographics.com\/edison-demographics#:~:text=Race%20%26%20Ethnicity,%25)%20and%20Hispanic%20(10.8%25).\">predominantly non-white, with a<\/a> plurality of South and East Asian Americans. Alongside the strip malls and gas stations that illuminate the night, one can find H-marts and Patel Cash &#38; Carry supermarkets, next to karaoke bars and saree shops. I grew up a few towns over, in East Brunswick, among fellow Desis who also claim ownership over lush green lawns and homes with long driveways where you can park your car for everyone to take notice of, eventually.<\/p>\n<div class=\"woocommerce\">\n<div class=\"woocommerce-info wc-memberships-restriction-message wc-memberships-message wc-memberships-content-restricted-message\">\n\t\t\t\tTo read this article, log in <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/\">here<\/a> or subscribe <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/subscribe\/\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>If you are logged in but can't read CP+ articles, check the status of your access <a class=\"always-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/my-account\/members-area\/\">here<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>In order to read CP+ articles, your web browser must be set to accept cookies.\t\t    <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/25\/the-usefulness-of-the-poc-identity-and-its-limits\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/25\/the-usefulness-of-the-poc-identity-and-its-limits\/\">The Usefulness of the \u201cPOC\u201d Identity and its Limits<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/09\/25\/the-usefulness-of-the-poc-identity-and-its-limits\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image by Jon Tyson.<\/p>\n<p>Edison, part of the ever-expanding suburban sprawl in the heart of central New Jersey, is now predominantly non-white, with a plurality of South and East Asian Americans. Alongside the strip malls and gas stations that illuminate &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,230],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812413,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812412\/revisions\/812413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}