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When Half Is Whole - Multiethnic Asian American Identities (Paperback)
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When Half Is Whole - Multiethnic Asian American Identities (Paperback)
Series: Asian America
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"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.
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