Whiter : Asian American women on skin color and colorism / edited by Nikki Khanna.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Khanna, Nikki, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Asian American women--Social conditions.

Asian American women.

Colorism--United States.

Colorism.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

United States.

Race relations--United States.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xi, 261 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2020]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781479881086

1479881082

9781479800292

1479800295

OCLC:

1091845215