C/DRAFTS: On the craft of ideas in draft

C/DRAFTS brings together notes and reflections from working in, through, and against the existing archives and dominant memoryscapes: provisional arguments, archival encounters, conceptual experiments, and other forms of thinking in motion as projects take shape. Rather than presenting finished conclusions, these posts make visible something of the intellectual process through which questions are tested, categories unsettled, and historical interpretations revised.

Because these writings are provisional and evolving, please do not circulate, quote, reproduce, or cite them without the author’s permission.

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.