The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed-Heritage Asian Americans

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Foreword Michael Omi Acknowledgments Introduction: Reconfiguring Race, Rearticulating Ethnicity Teresa Williams-Leon and Cynthia L. Nakashima Part I: Multiraciality and America: Bridging the Hybrid Past to the Multiracial Present 1. Who Is an Asian? Who Is a Pacific Islander? Monoracialism, Multiracial People, and American Communities Paul Spickard 2. Possibilities of a Multiracial America Yen Le Espiritu 3. Servants of Culture: Symbolic Role of Mixed-Race Asians in American Discourse Cynthia L. Nakashima 4. 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 Part II: Navigating Sociocultural Terrains of Family and Identity 5. Factors Influencing the Variation in and Ethnic Identity of Mixed-Heritage Persons of Ancestry Maria P. P. Root 6. Alaska's Multiracial American Families: Not Just at the Margins Curtiss Takada Rooks 7. Diversity of Biracial Individuals: Asian-White and Asian-Minority Biracial Identity Christine C. Iikima Hall and Trude I. Cooke Turner 8. Black, Japanese, and American: An American Identity Yesterday and Today Michael C. Thornton and Harold Gates Part III: Remapping Political Landscapes and Communities 9. A Rose by Any Other Name: Names, Multiracial/Multiethnic People, and the Politics of Identity Daniel A. Nakashima 10. Multiracial Comedy as a Commodity in Hawaii Darby Li Po Price 11. Doing the Mixed-Race Dance: Negotiating Social Spaces Within the Multiracial Vietnamese American Class Typology Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde 12. Convergence of Passing Zones: Multiracial Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals of Descent Teresa Williams-Leon 13. Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Mapping Discussions of Feminism, Race, and Beauty in Japanese American Beauty Pageants Rebecca Chiyoko King 14. Mixed but Not Matched: Multiracial People and the Organization of Health Knowledge Cathy J. Tashiro Part IV: Asian-Descent Multiraciality in Global Perspective 15. We Paved the Way: Exemplary Spaces and Mixed Race in Britain David Parker 16. A Dutch Eurasian Revival? Mark Taylor Brinsfield 17. Multiethnic Lives and Monoethnic Myths: American-Japanese Amerasians in Japan Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 18. Politics of Being Dogla and of Asian Descent in Suriname Loraine Y. Van Tuyl 19. Tiger and His Stripes: Thai and American Reactions to Tiger Woods's (Multi-) Racial Self Jan R. Weisman Bibliography About the Contributors