Love Across Borders: Asian Americans, Race, and the Politics of Intermarriage and Family-Making

by Kelly H Chong and Kelly H. Chong

Book Overview

High 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138212555
• ISBN13: 9781138212558
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"