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Title:

The sum of our parts : mixed-heritage Asian Americans / edited by Teresa Williams-León and Cynthia L. Nakashima ; foreword by Michael Omi.

Publisher:

Temple University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xiii, 279 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Asian Americans--Race identity.
Racially mixed people--Race identity--United States.
Asian Americans--Social conditions.
Racially mixed people--United States--Social conditions.
United States--Race relations.

Other Authors:

Williams-León, Teresa, 1963-
Nakashima, Cynthia L., 1966-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-275).

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 and Trude I. Cooke Turner -- Black, Japanese, and American: an Asian American identity yesterday and today / Michael C. Thornton and 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:

Asian American history and culture

ISBN:

9781566398473 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1566398479 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781566398466 (cloth : alk. paper)
1566398460 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)44518347

LCCN:

00055214

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)