War Baby/Love Child

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.

"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"--

Foreword by Kent A. OnoPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart One | Introduction1. Miscegenating Discourses: Critical Contexts for Mixed Race Asian American Art and Identity / Laura Kina and Wei Ming DariotisPart Two | "War Babies": U.S. Wars in Asia and Mixed Asians Philippine-American War and World War II: Postcolonial and Mestizo Identity2. Skin Stories, Wars, and Remembering: The Philippine-American War / Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr.3. Eating Your Heart Out: An Interview with Lori Kay4. Somewhere Tropical: An Interview with Gina Osterloh5. Wading to Shore: An Interview with Jenifer WoffordWorld War II | Mixed Race Japanese Americans6. The Celtic Samurai: Storytelling a Transnational-Transracial Family Life / Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu7. Yonsei Hapa Uchinanchu: An Interview with Laura Kina8. 9/11 Manzanar Mashup: An Interview with Chris Naka9. Gravity Always Wins: An Interview with Laurel NakadateKorean War | Korean Transracial Adoptees10. Producing Missing Persons: Korean Adoptee Artists Imagining (Im)Possible Lives / Eleana J. Kim11. Crossfading the Gendered History of Militarism in Korea: An Interview with Jane Jin KaisenVietnam War | Vietnamese Amerasians12. Lost in Their "Fathers' Land": War, Migration, and Vietnamese Amerasians / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials13. In Love in a Faraway Place: An Interview with Serene FordPart Three | Hawai'i: Mixed Race and the "Discourse of Aloha"14. Six Queens: Miss Ka Palapala and Interracial Beauty in Territorial Hawai'i / Lori Pierce15. Remixing Metaphors: Negotiating Multiracial Positions in Contemporary Native Hawaiian Art / Margo Machida16. Hawaiian Cover-ups: An Interview with Adrienne Pao17. I've Always Wanted Your Nose, Dad: An Interview with Samia MirzaPart Four | "Love Children": Domestic Racial Hierarchies, Antimiscegenation Laws, and RevolutionsEurasians and "Hapas": Mixed White Asians18. Both Buffer and Cosmopolitan: Eurasians, Colonialism, and the New "Benevolent" Globalization / Wei Ming Dariotis19. Cosmopolitan Views: An Interview with Li-lan20. 100% Hapa: An Interview with Kip Fulbeck21. Archiving Ephemera: An Interview with Amanda Ross-HoMixed Bloods | Mixed Asian Native Americans22. Reappearing Home: Mixed Asian Native North Americans / Wei Ming Dariotis23. Walking in "Chindian" Shoes: An Interview with Louie Gong24. Hello, Half-breed!: An Interview with Debra Yepa-PappanBlasians | Mixed Black Asians25. What Used to Be a Footnote: Claiming Black Roots in Asian American-Asian Caribbean Historical Memory / Wendy Thompson Taiwo26. Jamaican Hybridity within the "Bowels of Babylon": An Interview with Albert Chong27. Automythography: An Interview with Mequitta AhujaMestizaje | Mixed Latino Asians28. Revisiting Border Door and UnEarthing Los Anthropolocos' White-Fying Project / Richard A. Lou29. Journey of a "Chicanese": An Interview with Richard A. Lou30. Artificial Gems: An Interview with Cristina Lei RodriguezPart Five | ConclusionRevolutions: The Biracial Baby Boom and the Loving Day and Marriage Equality Movements31. The Biracial Baby Boom and the Multiracial Millennium / Camilla Fojas32. Loving Days: Images of Marriage Equality Then and Now / Stuart Gaffney and Ken TanabeNotesAbout the AuthorsBibliographyIndex