The sum of our parts : mixed-heritage Asian Americans /
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| Imprint: | Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2001. |
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| Description: | xiii, 279 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asian American history and culture |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4475872 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Reconfiguring Race, Rearticulating Ethnicity
- Section I. Multiraciality and Asian America: Bridging the Hybrid Past to the Multiracial Present
- 1.. Who Is an Asian? Who Is a Pacific Islander? Monoracialism, Multiracial People, and Asian American Communities
- 2.. Possibilities of a Multiracial Asian America
- 3.. Servants of Culture: The Symbolic Role of Mixed-Race Asians in American Discourse
- 4.. "The Coming of the Neo-Hawaiian American Race": Nationalism and Metaphors of the Melting Pot in Popular Accounts of Mixed-Race Individuals
- Section II. Navigating Sociocultural Terrains of Family and Identity
- 5.. Factors Influencing the Variation in Racial and Ethnic Identity of Mixed-Heritage Persons of Asian Ancestry
- 6.. Alaska's Multiracial Asian American Families: Not Just at the Margins
- 7.. The Diversity of Biracial Individuals: Asian-White and Asian-Minority Biracial Identity
- 8.. Black, Japanese, and American: An Asian American Identity Yesterday and Today
- Section III. Remapping Political Landscapes and Communities
- 9.. A Rose by Any Other Name: Names, Multiracial/Multiethnic People, and the Politics of Identity
- 10.. Multiracial Comedy as a Commodity in Hawaii
- 11.. Doing the Mixed-Race Dance: Negotiating Social Spaces Within the Multiracial Vietnamese American Class Typology
- 12.. The Convergence of Passing Zones: Multiracial Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals of Asian Descent
- 13.. Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Mapping Discussions of Feminism, Race, and Beauty in Japanese American Beauty Pageants
- 14.. Mixed but Not Matched: Multiracial People and the Organization of Health Knowledge
- Section IV. Asian-Descent Multiraciality in Global Perspective
- 15.. "We Paved the Way": Exemplary Spaces and Mixed Race in Britain
- 16.. A Dutch Eurasian Revival?
- 17.. Multiethnic Lives and Monoethnic Myths: American-Japanese Amerasians in Japan
- 18.. The Racial Politics of Being Dogla and of "Asian" Descent in Suriname
- 19.. The Tiger and His Stripes: Thai and American Reactions to Tiger Woods's (Multi-) "Racial Self"
- Bibliography
- About the Contributors