Description: Further DetailsTitle: When Half Is WholeCondition: NewSubtitle: Multiethnic Asian American IdentitiesISBN-10: 0804775184EAN: 9780804775182ISBN: 9780804775182Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/10/2012Description: "I listen and gather people's stories. Then I write them down in a way that I hope will communicate something to others, so that seeing these stories will give readers something of value. I tell myself that this isn't going to be done unless I do it, just because of who I am. It's a way of making my mark, leaving something behind . . . not that I'm planning on going anywhere right now." So explains Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu in this touching, introspective, and insightful examination of mixed race Asian American experiences. The son of an Irish American father and Japanese mother, Murphy-Shigematsu uses his personal journey of identity exploration and discovery of his diverse roots to illuminate the journeys of others. Throughout the book, his reflections are interspersed among portraits of persons of biracial and mixed ethnicity and accounts of their efforts to answer a seemingly simple question: Who am I? Here we meet Norma, raised in postwar Japan, the daughter of a Japanese woman and an American serviceman, who struggled to make sense of her ethnic heritage and national belonging. Wei Ming, born in Australia and raised in the San Francisco of the 1970s and 1980s, grapples as well with issues of identity, in her case both ethnic and sexual. We also encounter Rudy, a "Mexipino"; Marshall, a "Jewish, adopted Korean"; Mitzi, a "Blackinawan"; and other extraordinary people who find how connecting to all parts of themselves also connects them to others. With its attention on people who have been regarded as "half" this or "half" that throughout their lives, these stories make vivid the process of becoming whole.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Weight: 295gAuthor: Stephen Murphy-ShigematsuGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Asian AmericaTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: When Half Is Whole
Title: When Half Is Whole
Subtitle: Multiethnic Asian American Identities
ISBN-10: 0804775184
EAN: 9780804775182
ISBN: 9780804775182
Release Date: 10/10/2012
Release Year: 2012
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 248 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: When Half Is Whole : Multiethnic Asian American Identities
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Ethnic Studies / Asian American Studies, Gender Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political Ideologies / Nationalism & Patriotism
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
Series: Asian America Ser.
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
