Full Description
War Baby / Love Child examines hybrid Asian American identity through a collection of essays, artworks, and interviews at the intersection of critical mixed race studies and contemporary art. The book pairs artwork and interviews with nineteen emerging, mid-career, and established mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American artists, including Li-lan and Kip Fulbeck, with scholarly essays exploring such topics as Vietnamese Amerasians, Korean transracial adoptions, and multiethnic Hawai'i. As an increasingly ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation is coming of age in an era of "optional identity," this collection brings together first-person perspectives and a wider scholarly context to shed light on changing Asian American cultures.
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Contents
Foreword 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
