LEADER 03301cam 2200433Ii 4500001 on1159864851 003 OCoLC 005 20201124104741.1 008 200620t20212021mau b 001 0 eng d 020 9781138212541 |qhardcover 020 1138212547 |qhardcover 020 9781138212558 |qpaperback 020 1138212555 |qpaperback 035 (Sirsi) 99990685103 035 99990685103 035 (OCoLC)1159864851 040 ERASA |beng |erda |cERASA |dYDXIT |dOCLCO |dZAQ |dYDXIT |dUtOrBLW 043 n-us--- 050 4 HQ1031 |b.C4875 2021 082 04 306.843 |223 100 1 Chong, Kelly H., |d1964- |eauthor. |=^A1299778 245 10 Love across borders : |bAsian Americans and the politics of intermarriage and family-making / |cKelly H. Chong. 264 1 New York : |bRoutledge, |c2021. 264 4 |c©2020 300 x, 236 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-197) and index. 520 8 High rates of intermarriage, especially with whites, have been viewed as an indicator that Asian-Americans are successfully "assimilating," signaling acceptance by the white majority and their own desire to become part of the white mainstream. Comparing two types of Asian-American intermarriage, interracial and interethnic, Kelly H. Chong disrupts these assumptions by showing that both types of intermarriages, in differing ways, are sites of complex struggles around racial/ethnic identity and cultural formations that reveal the salience of race in the lives of Asian-Americans. Drawing upon extensive qualitative data, Chong explores how interracial marriages, far from being an endpoint of assimilation, are a terrain of life-long negotiations over racial and ethnic identities, while interethnic (intra-Asian) unions and family-making illuminate Asian-Americans' ongoing efforts to co-construct and sustain a common racial identity and panethnic culture despite interethnic differences and tensions. Chong also examines the pivotal role race and gender play in shaping both the romantic desires and desirability of Asian-Americans, spotlighting the social construction of love and marital choices. Through the lens of intermarriage, Love Across Borders offers critical insights into the often invisible racial struggles of this racially in-between "model minority" group - particularly its ambivalent negotiations with whiteness and white privilege - and on the group's social incorporation process and its implications for the redrawing of color boundaries in the U.S. 650 0 Intermarriage |zUnited States |y21st century. |=^A991932 650 0 Asian Americans |xRace identity |xHistory |y21st century. |=^A990226 650 0 Racially mixed families |zUnited States |xHistory. |=^A1273019 776 08 |iElectronic version:Chong, Kelly H., 1964- |tLove across borders. |dNew York, NY : Routledge, 2021 |z9781315450353 |w(OCoLC)1200312218 949 |i30372017348498 |ojjlm 960 |o1 |s32.95 |tJoyner48 |uJSOC |zUSD 596 1 998 5814586