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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sum of our parts (OCoLC)1226553943 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Teresa Williams-León; Cynthia L Nakashima; Michael Omi |
| ISBN: | 1566398460 9781566398466 1566398479 9781566398473 |
| OCLC Number: | 44518347 |
| Description: | xiii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Contents: | Who is an Asian? Who is a Pacific Islander? Monoracialism, multiracial people, and Asian American communities / Paul Spickard -- Possibilities of a multiracial Asian America / Yen Le Espiritu -- Servants of culture: the symbolic role of mixed-race Asians in American discourse / Cynthia L. Nakashima -- "The coming of the neo-Hawaiian American race": nationalism and metaphors of the melting pot in popular accounts of mixed-race individuals / John Chock Rosa -- Factors influencing the variation in racial and ethnic identity of mixed-heritage persons of Asian ancestry / Maria P.P. Root -- Alaska's multiracial Asian American families: not just at the margins / Curtiss Takada Rooks -- The diversity of biracial individuals: Asian-white and Asian-minority biracial identity / Christine C. Iijima Hall, Trude I. Cooke Turner -- Black, Japanese, and American: an Asian American identity yesterday and today / Michael C. Thornton, Harold Gates -- A rose by any other name: names, multiracial/multiethnic people, and the politics of identity / Daniel A. Nakashima -- Multiracial comedy as a commodity in Hawaii / Darby Li Po Price -- Doing the mixed-race dance: negotiating social spaces within the multiracial Vietnamese American class typology / Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde -- The convergence of passing zones: multiracial gays, lesbians, and bisexuals of Asian descent / Teresa Williams-León -- Mirror, mirror on the wall: mapping discussions of feminism, race, and beauty in Japanese American beauty pageants / Rebecca Chiyoko King -- Mixed but not matched: multiracial people and the organization of health knowledge / Cathy J. Tashiro -- "We paved the way": exemplary spaces and mixed race in Britain / David Parker -- A Dutch Eurasian revival? / Mark Taylor Brinsfield -- Multiethnic lives and monoethnic myths: American-Japanese Amerasians in Japan / Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu -- The racial politics of being Dogla and of "Asian" descent in Suriname / Loraine Y. Van Tuyl -- The tiger and his stripes: Thai and American reactions to Tiger Wood's (multi- ) "racial self" / Jan R. Weisman. |
| Series Title: | Asian American history and culture. |
| Other Titles: | Mixed-heritage Asian Americans |
| Responsibility: | edited by Teresa Williams-León and Cynthia L. Nakashima ; foreword by Michael Omi. |
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"The Sum of Our Parts is the first collection of essays on multiracial and multiethnic Asian Americans by experts in the field. The book is timely and will make an important contribution to the discourse on race, ethnicity, and identity formation. Comprehensive, historical, diasporic, and theoretically grounded, it includes groups not covered anywhere else, and will appeal to both academic and popular audiences." - Judy Yung, University of California, Santa Cruz "This book begins to remedy a crucial absence in contemporary liberatory discussion - Asian identities, and multiracial Asian identities. It should be an important and welcome contribution, academically and beyond." - Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany, SUNY "This collection of essays focuses on the construction of identity among people of Asian descent who claim multiple racial heritages. In the year 2000, for the first time in US history, the government's census allowed people the option of officially categorizing themselves in more than one racial group. According to this census, nearly one-third of all interracial marriages in the USA included an Asian-descent spouse. This book is divided into four sections: an examination of the history of multiraciality and Asian America; socio-cultural narratives of family and identity; analyses of political implications of multiracial identities; and an exploration of Asian-descent multiraciality, globally." - SAGE Race Relations Abstracts "These critical and provocative essays analyzing how multiracial identities have been constructed not just in the US but in a global context explore the multiple meanings accorded that identity from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, with a social science emphasis...A contribution to studies of race and ethnicity, as well as to Asian American studies, this collection is highly recommended..." - Choice "...a stellar interdisciplinary anthology...It not only fills the gap in the extant literature, but also furthers our understanding of the multiracial experience..." - The Journal of the West Read more...
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- Asian Americans -- Race identity.
- Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States.
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- Racially mixed people -- United States -- Social conditions.
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- Asian Americans -- United States -- Social conditions.
- Américains d'origine asiatique -- Identité ethnique.
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- États-Unis -- Relations raciales.
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