War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art

by Laura Kina (Editor), Wei Ming Dariotis (Editor), Kent A. Ono (Foreword by)

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780295749204
Publisher:	University of Washington Press
Publication date:	01/17/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	344
File size:	53 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

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

What People are Saying About This

Mark Johnson

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.

Nitasha Sharma

"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."

Editorial Reviews

"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."

City Living Seattle - Jessica Davis

"A fascinating book on mixed-race identity and visual art."

International Examiner - Shawn Wong

"Kina and Dariotis’s volume offers an evolving and rich archive of marginalized but must-be-seen art production which scholars in Asian American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Art History can synthesize in multiple exciting ways."

Amerasia Journal - Susette Min

"It is a very fine example of the Fine Art of Race Talk."

Magic Mulatto - Brett Russell Coleman

"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, September 26 2013

"“A fascinating book on mixed-race identity and visual art."—Shawn Wong, International Examiner, June 5 2013

From the Publisher