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Eurasian [[electronic resource] ] : mixed identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943 / / Emma Jinhua Teng



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Autore: Teng Emma Visualizza persona
Titolo: Eurasian [[electronic resource] ] : mixed identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943 / / Emma Jinhua Teng Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
Disciplina: 305.8/5951013
Soggetto topico: Chinese Americans - Ethnic identity - History
Chinese American families - Social conditions
Interracial marriage - United States
Chinese Americans - China - Ethnic identity - History
Chinese American families - China - Social conditions
Interracial marriage - China
Chinese Americans - China - Hong Kong - Ethnic identity - History
Chinese American families - China - Hong Kong - Social conditions
Interracial marriage - China - Hong Kong
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- A Note on Romanization -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude -- Introduction -- Part One. Debating Intermarriage -- Part Two. Debating Hybridity -- Part Three. Claiming Identities -- Coda: Elsie Jane Comes Home to Rest -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Personal Names and Terms -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown. How did interracial families negotiate their identities within these societies when mixed-race marriage was taboo and "Eurasian" often a derisive term? In Eurasian, Emma Jinhua Teng compares Chinese-Western mixed-race families in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, examining both the range of ideas that shaped the formation of Eurasian identities in these diverse contexts and the claims set forth by individual Eurasians concerning their own identities. Teng argues that Eurasians were not universally marginalized during this era, as is often asserted. Rather, Eurasians often found themselves facing contradictions between exclusionary and inclusive ideologies of race and nationality, and between overt racism and more subtle forms of prejudice that were counterbalanced by partial acceptance and privilege. By tracing the stories of mixed and transnational families during an earlier era of globalization, Eurasian also demonstrates to students, faculty, scholars, and researchers how changes in interracial ideology have allowed the descendants of some of these families to reclaim their dual heritage with pride.  
Titolo autorizzato: Eurasian  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-27627-2
0-520-95700-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910452267303321
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