Overview

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. Watch the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJp0MDtKqyY&list=UUge4MONgLFncQ1w1C_BnHcw&index=2&feature=plcp

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Author:   Laura Kina ,  Wei Ming Dariotis ,  Kent A. Ono
Publisher:   University of Washington Press
Imprint:   University of Washington Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780295992259

ISBN 10:   0295992255
Pages:   344
Publication Date:   17 January 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of 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"

Reviews

War Baby / Love Child is an interesting, original, and innovative project that expands the field of Asian American studies by using visual art as a point of entry and analysis for the discipline. Mark Johnson, editor of Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 One of the strengths of this original volume is its holistic combination of interviews with premier fine artists along with the textual, historical, and scholarly context provided by established and emerging scholars in Asian American Studies. Nitasha Sharma, author of Hip Hop Desis: South Americans, Blackness, and Global Race Consciousness

It is a very fine example of the Fine Art of Race Talk. -- Brett Russell Coleman Magic Mulatto 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

Author Information

Laura Kina is associate professor of art, media, and design at DePaul University. Wei Ming Dariotis is associate professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University.

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