Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture

Author: Jennifer Ann Ho
ISBN: 9780813570693

The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-ethnic groups, lumping together under one heading people with dramatically different historical backgrounds and cultures. In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, revealing ambiguity to be paramount to a more nuanced understanding both of race and of what it means to be Asian American.  Exploring a variety of subjects and cultural artifacts, Ho reveals how Asian American subjects evince a deep racial ambiguity that unmoors the concept of race from any fixed or finite understanding. For example, the book examines the racial ambiguity of Japanese American nisei Yoshiko Nakamura deLeon, who during World War II underwent an abrupt transition from being an enemy alien to an assimilating American, via the Mixed Marriage Policy of 1942. It looks at the blogs of Ko

Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publish Date: 2015-05-12

Subjects: History / United States / 20th Century, Literary Criticism / American / Asian American, Psychology / Ethnopsychology, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Asia (ASIA))