Whiter Asian American women on skin color and colorism / edited by Nikki Khanna.
| Other author | Khanna, Nikki, 1974- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : New York University Press, [2020] |
| Description | xi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Asian American women on skin color and colorism |
| Contents | Part 1. Colorism defined -- Wheatish / Rhea Goveas, Indian American -- Too dark / Miho Iwata, Japanese (Permanent U.S. Resident) -- Sang duc ho / Catherine Ma, Chinese American -- You're so white, you're so pretty / Sambath Meas, Khmer American -- You have such a nice tan! / Ethel Nicdao, Filipina American -- Brown arms / Tanzila Ahmed, Bangladeshi American -- Hopes for my daughter / Bhoomi K. Thakore, Indian American -- Part 2. Privilege -- Blessed with beautiful skin / Rhea Manglani, Indian American -- Shai hei / Rosalie Chan, Chinese/Filipina American -- Whiteness is slippery / Julia Mizutani, Multiracial Japanese/White American -- Regular inmates / Sonal Nalkur, Indo-Canadian (currently resides in the U.S.) -- Magnetic repulsion / Brittany Ota-Malloy, Multiracial Japanese/Black American -- Part 3. Aspirational whiteness -- Digital whiteness / Noor Hasan, Pakistani American -- Mrs. Santos' whitening cream / Agatha Roa, Pacific Islander American -- Shade of brown / Noelle Marie Falcis, Filipina America -- Part 4. Anti-blackness -- Creation stories / Sairah Husain, Pakistani American -- What it means to be brown / Wendy Thompson Taiwo, multiracial Chinese/Black American -- The perpetual outsider / Marimas Hosan Mostiller, Cham American -- Part 5. Belonging and identity -- What are you? / Anne Mai Yee Jansen, Multiracial Chinese/White American -- Born Filipina, somewhere in between / Kim D. Chanbonpin, Filipina American -- Invisible to my own people / Kamna Shastri, Indian American -- Nobody deserves to feel like a foreigner in their own culture / Erika Lee, Taiwanese/Chinese American -- Tired / Cindy Luu, Vietnamese American -- Part 6. Skin - redefined -- The very best of you / Joanne L. Rondilla, Filipina American -- Reprogramming / Daniela Pila, Filipina American -- Cartographies of myself / Lillian Lu, Chinese American -- The sun is calling my name / Rowena Mangohig, Filipina American -- Abominable honhyeol / Julia R. DeCook, Multiracial Korean/White American -- Dear future child / Kathy Tran-Peters, Vietnamese American -- Teeth / Betty Ming Liu, Chinese American. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019012043 |
| ISBN | 9781479881086 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781479800292 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |