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Book SynopsisSheds light on changing Asian American cultures
Trade Review"It is a very fine example of the Fine Art of Race Talk."
-- Brett Russell Coleman * Magic Mulatto *
"Kina and Dariotis’s volume offers an evolving and rich archive of marginalized but must-be-seen art production which scholars in Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Art History can synthesize in multiple exciting ways."
-- Susette Min * Amerasia Journal *
"The project makes visible underrepresented histories with Asian-American studies, mixed-race studies and contemporary art. The exhibition and accompanying book . . . map out and contextualize the lives and works of these artists."
-- Jessica Davis * City Living Seattle *
"A fascinating book on mixed-race identity and visual art."
-- Shawn Wong * International Examiner *
Table of ContentsForeword by Kent A. Ono
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One | Introduction
1. Miscegenating Discourses: Critical Contexts for Mixed Race Asian American Art and Identity / Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis
Part Two | "War Babies": U.S. Wars in Asia and Mixed Asians Philippine-American War and World War II: Postcolonial and Mestizo Identity
2. Skin Stories, Wars, and Remembering: The Philippine-American War / Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr.
3. Eating Your Heart Out: An Interview with Lori Kay
4. Somewhere Tropical: An Interview with Gina Osterloh
5. Wading to Shore: An Interview with Jenifer Wofford
World War II | Mixed Race Japanese Americans
6. The Celtic Samurai: Storytelling a Transnational-Transracial Family Life / Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
7. Yonsei Hapa Uchinanchu: An Interview with Laura Kina
8. 9/11 Manzanar Mashup: An Interview with Chris Naka
9. Gravity Always Wins: An Interview with Laurel Nakadate
Korean War | Korean Transracial Adoptees
10. Producing Missing Persons: Korean Adoptee Artists Imagining (Im)Possible Lives / Eleana J. Kim
11. Crossfading the Gendered History of Militarism in Korea: An Interview with Jane Jin Kaisen
Vietnam War | Vietnamese Amerasians
12. Lost in Their "Fathers' Land": War, Migration, and Vietnamese Amerasians / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials
13. In Love in a Faraway Place: An Interview with Serene Ford
Part Three | Hawai'i: Mixed Race and the "Discourse of Aloha"
14. Six Queens: Miss Ka Palapala and Interracial Beauty in Territorial Hawai'i / Lori Pierce
15. Remixing Metaphors: Negotiating Multiracial Positions in Contemporary Native Hawaiian Art / Margo Machida
16. Hawaiian Cover-ups: An Interview with Adrienne Pao
17. I've Always Wanted Your Nose, Dad: An Interview with Samia Mirza
Part Four | "Love Children": Domestic Racial Hierarchies, Antimiscegenation Laws, and Revolutions
Eurasians and "Hapas": Mixed White Asians
18. Both Buffer and Cosmopolitan: Eurasians, Colonialism, and the New "Benevolent" Globalization / Wei Ming Dariotis
19. Cosmopolitan Views: An Interview with Li-lan
20. 100% Hapa: An Interview with Kip Fulbeck
21. Archiving Ephemera: An Interview with Amanda Ross-Ho
Mixed Bloods | Mixed Asian Native Americans
22. Reappearing Home: Mixed Asian Native North Americans / Wei Ming Dariotis
23. Walking in "Chindian" Shoes: An Interview with Louie Gong
24. Hello, Half-breed!: An Interview with Debra Yepa-Pappan
Blasians | Mixed Black Asians
25. What Used to Be a Footnote: Claiming Black Roots in Asian American-Asian Caribbean Historical Memory / Wendy Thompson Taiwo
26. Jamaican Hybridity within the "Bowels of Babylon": An Interview with Albert Chong
27. Automythography: An Interview with Mequitta Ahuja
Mestizaje | Mixed Latino Asians
28. Revisiting Border Door and UnEarthing Los Anthropolocos' White-Fying Project / Richard A. Lou
29. Journey of a "Chicanese": An Interview with Richard A. Lou
30. Artificial Gems: An Interview with Cristina Lei Rodriguez
Part Five | Conclusion
Revolutions: The Biracial Baby Boom and the Loving Day and Marriage Equality Movements
31. The Biracial Baby Boom and the Multiracial Millennium / Camilla Fojas
32. Loving Days: Images of Marriage Equality Then and Now / Stuart Gaffney and Ken Tanabe
Notes
About the Authors
Bibliography
Index
