Love Across Borders - 9781138212558

Taylor & Francis

Love Across BordersAsian Americans, Race, and the Politics of Intermarriage and Family-Making\nAuthor(s): Kelly Chong\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138212558, 978-1138212558\nSynopsis\nHigh 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. \n\nDrawing upon extensive qualitative data, Chong explores how interracial marriages, far from being an endpoint of assimilation, are a terrain of lif]