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Eurasian

Teng, Emma Jinhua

2013

Overview

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.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: 19th century / 20th century / american society / anthropology / Asia / China / Chinese American families / Chinese American families - China - Hong Kong - Social conditions / Chinese American families -- China -- Social conditions / Chinese American families -- Social conditions / Chinese Americans / Chinese Americans -- China -- Ethnic identity -- History / Chinese Americans -- China -- Hong Kong -- Ethnic identity -- History / Chinese Americans -- Ethnic identity -- History / chinese society / chinese western families / cross cultural / cultural anthropologists / cultural history / Ethnic identity / eurasian / eurasian identities / global trade / globalization / historians / HISTORY / HISTORY / Asia / General / HISTORY / Europe / General / HISTORY / United States / General / Hong Kong / interracial families / Interracial marriage / Interracial marriage -- China / Interracial marriage -- China -- Hong Kong / Interracial marriage -- United States / migrant laborers / minority groups / mixed identities / mixed race families / nationalities / overseas study / prejudice / racial issues / racial prejudice / racism / Social conditions / social identity / social issues / taboo / transnational families / United States
• ISBN: 9780520276277, 0520276264, 9780520276260, 0520276272, 9780520957008, 0520957008