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Children and the Shifting Engagement with Racial/Ethnic Identity among Second-Generation Interracially Married Asian Americans
dc.contributor.author | Chong, Kelly Haesung | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-07-09T17:50:43Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-07-09T17:50:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013-06 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Kelly H. Chong. (2013). Children and the Shifting Engagement with Racial/Ethnic Identity among Second Generation Interracially Married Asian Americans. Journal of Asian American Studies 16(2):189-221 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14641 | |
dc.description | This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_asian_american_studies/v016/16.2.chong.html | |
dc.description.abstract | Asian Americans have historically enjoyed one of the highest rates of intermarriage of any racial/ethnic group. By exploring the dynamics of interracial marriages among middle-class, professional Asian Americans in Chicago, this article examines what interracial marriages mean for these putative racial/ethnic “boundary crossers” and what they signify about assimilation, racial/ethnic identity, and redrawing of color boundaries in America. This article finds that for Asian Americans in this study, interracial marriage is far from an unproblematic indicator of assimilation; rather, it is a terrain in which complex subjective negotiations over ethnic/racial identities are waged over lifetimes. For both female and male Asian Americans, personal struggles over racial/ethnic identity are thrown into full relief when they begin the process of raising mixed-race children, which forces a reexamination of their own identities, and of those of their children. This article makes a distinctive contribution to the interrelationship of intermarriage, race, and ethnic identity development by comparing the views of Asian Americans and those of their non-Asian spouses regarding marital dynamics and children, which helps to further illuminate the uniqueness of the Asian American experience. | |
dc.publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press | |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://www.dx.doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2013.0019 | |
dc.title | Children and the Shifting Engagement with Racial/Ethnic Identity among Second-Generation Interracially Married Asian Americans | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Chong, Kelly H. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Sociology | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1353/jaas.2013.0019 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |