02471nam 22004693u 450 991046212040332120210209150144.00-8047-8395-0(CKB)2670000000241457(EBL)1010619(OCoLC)810533786(MiAaPQ)EBC1010619(EXLCZ)99267000000024145720131209d2012|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||When Half Is Whole[electronic resource] Multiethnic Asian American IdentitiesPalo Alto Stanford University Press20121 online resource (246 p.)Asian AmericaDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-7517-6 Contents; Prologue; Chapter 1: Flowers Amidst the Ashes; Chapter 2: We Must Go On; Chapter 3: For the Community; Chapter 4: English, I Don't Know!; Chapter 5: Bi Bi Girl; Chapter 6: I Am Your Illusion, Your Reality, Your F; Chapter 7: Grits and Sushi; Chapter 8: I Cut across Borders as If They Have No; Chapter 9: Victims No More; Chapter 10: American Girl in Asia; Chapter 11: Found in Translation; Epilogue; Notes; Recommended Readings; About the Author""I listen and gather people's stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate something to others, so that seeing these stories will give readers something of value. I tell myself that this isn't going to be done unless I do it, just because of who I am. It's a way of making my mark, leaving something behind . . . not that I'm planning on going anywhere right now.""So explains Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu in this touching, introspective, and insightful examination of mixed race Asian American experiences. The son of an Irish American father and Japanese Asian AmericaAsian Americans -- Ethnic identityRacially mixed people -- United States -- Ethnic identityTransnationalismElectronic books.Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity.Racially mixed people -- United States -- Ethnic identity.Transnationalism.305.895/073305.895073Murphy-Shigematsu Stephen871190AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910462120403321When Half Is Whole2275517UNINA