Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture
Jennifer Ann Ho
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
Series
Asian American Studies Today
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813570709
SKU
V9780813570709
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Ref
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About Jennifer Ann Ho
JENNIFER ANN HO is an associate professor in the English and comparative literature department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels.
Reviews for Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture
"With nuanced, original readings and fluid prose, Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture exceeds other studies of multiracialism by presenting a lucid, yet complex meditation on category confusion and epistemological uncertainty and their political stakes for Asian Americans."
Leslie Bow
author of Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South
"With a nuanced approach ... Read more
Leslie Bow
author of Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South
"With a nuanced approach ... Read more