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"'Asianness Under Construction:' The Contours and Negotiation of Panethnic Identity/Culture among Interethnically Married Asian Americans."
dc.contributor.author | Chong, Kelly Haesung | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-02T21:01:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-04-02T21:01:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/26281 | |
dc.description.abstract | Based on life-history interviews of interethnically married U.S.-raised Asians, this article examines the meaning and dynamics of Asian American interethnic marriages, and what they reveal about the complex incorporative process of this “in-between” racial minority group into the U.S.. In particular, this article explores the connection between Asian American interethnic marriage and pan-Asian consciousness/identity, both in terms of how panethnicity shapes romantic/ marital desires of individuals and how pan-Asian culture and identity is invented and negotiated in the process of family-making. My findings indicate that while strong pan-Asian consciousness/ identity underlies the connection among intermarried couples, these unions are not simply a defensive effort to “preserve” Asian-ethnic identity and cultur against a society that still racializes Asian Americans, but a tentative and often unpremeditated effort to navigate a path toward integration into the society through an ethnically based, albeit hybrid and reconstructed identity and culture, that helps the respondents retain the integrity of “Asianness.” | en_US |
dc.publisher | SAGE | en_US |
dc.subject | Asia/Asian American | |
dc.subject | Race and ethnicity | |
dc.subject | Intermarriage | |
dc.subject | Immigration | |
dc.title | "'Asianness Under Construction:' The Contours and Negotiation of Panethnic Identity/Culture among Interethnically Married Asian Americans." | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Chong, Kelly H. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Sociology | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0731121415611682 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |