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War baby/love child : mixed race Asian American art / edited by Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis. - Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013] - xviii, 292 pages, [32] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 19 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.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 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." -Mark Johnson, editor of Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 "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." -Nitasha Sharma, author of Hip Hop Desis: South Americans, Blackness, and Global Race Consciousness"-- "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"--

ISBN: 9780295992259 (pbk.) 0295992255 (pbk.)

LCCN: 2012038294

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Asian American art--20th century.
Asian American art--21st century.
Asian Americans--Ethnic identity.
Racially mixed people--Race identity--United States.
ART / American / Asian American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies.
ART / History / Contemporary (1945-).

LC Class. No.: N6538 A83 / W37 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 704.03/0595013