Racing Romance: Love, Power, and Desire among Asian American/White Couples

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adoptee, Korean, 134 agency, 5, 7–9, 12, 71, 73, 101–102, 152 Ally McBeal (TV series), 23 Amerasian, 43, 72, 113. See also biracial children; Eurasian American manhood, system of, 125 American military: in Asia, 19–20; in Japan, 40, 41; in the Philippines, 40, 55–56, 60–64; in South Korea, 40, 45–46; in Vietnam, 19, 22–23, 147 Americans, as whites, 181n1 (chap. 6) American women: Asian American men’s views of, 5, 146–147; Asian American women’s views of, 80, 101–102; white men’s views of, 43, 47–48, 50, 80–81. See also hegemonic femininity; white women antimiscegenation laws, 20, 33, 41, 160 Arisaka, Yoko, 163 Asian American: (cultural) nationalism of, 11, 137; depression and suicide, 28; as racial category, 9–10, 136–137 Asian and Asian American men: Asian American women’s views of, 48, 79, 86, 88–92, 94, 99–100; white women’s views of, 109, 120–123, 128–134, 139–141. See also hypermasculine; model minority; stereotypes Asian and Asian American women: Asian American men’s views of, 122, 146; as different subjects, 27–30; white men’s views of, 42, 47, 49, 56, 65, 67–68, 80–81, 98, 100. See also Asian fetish; Asian women as aesthetic signs of femininity; hyperfeminine; hypersexual; model minority; stereotypes Asian as cosmopolitan consumer, 49 Asian beauty, 24 Asian culture: as self-healing commodity, 113; as therapeutic tool, 109 Asian economy, rise of, 19, 23, 78, 112 Asian fetish, 92–99, 132. See also fetishization Asian women as aesthetic signs of femininity, 74, 80–83, 96, 102; and fashion, 78 assimilation, 76, 108, 119, 123, 125; disciplines of, 108; discourse (narrative), 16, 108, 115, 119, 124; love story, 22; social and cultural imperative of, 41, 69; theory of intermarriage and, 33, 36 Austin American Statesman (newspaper), 160 Bauman, Zygmunt, 162 Benjamin, Jessica, 4 Benjamin, Walter, 9 Berlant, Lauren, 25, 70–71, 88 biracial children: black-Chinese, 144; black-white, 43; in Japan, 42; respondents ’ views of, 43–44, 47–48, 58, 60, 71–72, 83, 88, 113, 115, 119–120, 124, 127, 157 Index 191 192 Index black biracial children, 43, 113, 144. See also biracial children black hypermasculinity, 2 black-white interracial relationships, 6, 43, 56, 82, 97, 158, 160; black women’s views of, 153 black women: white men’s views of, 43, 56, 102, and resentment, 82 blond fetish, Asian American men’s, 108–114. See also fetishization Blum, Virginia L., 162, 182n26 Butler, Judith, 1 Catholicism, 86; church and, 51, 69; gender belief and, 53, 66, 69 Chan, Jachinson, 32 Chen, Anthony, 13, 126 Cheng, Anne A., 4, 7, 9, 28, 150–151, 163 Cheng, Cliff, 30 Childs, Erica Chito, 2, 6, 35, 82, 112, 153 Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, 20 Chodorow, Nancy, 8 Chong, Annabel, 26 Chung, Connie, 25, 152 collective family system in Asia, 69. See also Confucian: family ties; Confucian : tradition and gender hierarchy in Asian countries Collins, Patricia Hill, 24, 34, 100, 107 colonial desire, 64 colonial/postcolonial: desire, 20, 27, 29–30; dynamics and gender, 19; images formed in Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and America, 40–41; mores, 39; order, 19–20; subject as different from racialized subject, 29–30; U.S.-Asian relations, 27. See also postcolonial/neocolonial regime color-blindness: among Asian American–white couples, 16, 99–104, 108–114, 123–124, 157–160; in culture of intimacy, 2, 162; discourse of, 35–36, 108, 112, 145; equality and, 159; multiculturalism and, 6; studies of intermarriage and, 33–36; as white view of race, 97, 107 color-cognizance, 108 color-evasive (power-evasive) discourse, 35, 145 compulsory heterosexuality, 51 Confucian: family ties, 177n7; tradition and gender hierarchy in Asian countries , 46, 53, 69; traits as feminine, 30 Connell, Robert, 8, 13, 180n4 Constable, Nicole, 54 controlling images of Asian women: 92. See also Asian and Asian American women; hyperfeminine; hypersexual; racism; stereotypes correspondence marriage, 39. See also mail-order brides; pen-pal relationship Craig-Henderson, Kelina M., 32 cross-racial and cross-gender alliance, 141 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (film), 26 cult of true womanhood, the, 48–49, 52–53 cultural capital, 74, 102, 124, 138, 162. See also social capital; symbolic capital Dang, Tran, 7, 29, 100–101, 150 Deer Hunter, The (film), 23 depression, Asian Americans and, 28 desexualization of Asian American men, 30, 34, 129. See also Asian and Asian American men; racism; stereotypes Dhingra, Pawan H., 76, 102 double consciousness, 64 Ellison, Ralph, 151...