{"id":12371,"date":"2011-02-28T21:34:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T21:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=12371"},"modified":"2014-10-23T22:45:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T22:45:18","slug":"the-face-is-the-road-map-vietnamese-amerasians-in-u-s-political-and-popular-culture-1980%e2%80%931988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=12371","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Face Is the Road Map&#8221;: Vietnamese Amerasians in U.S. Political and Popular Culture, 1980\u20131988"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_asian_american_studies\/summary\/v014\/14.1.lipman.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Face Is the Road Map&#8221;: Vietnamese Amerasians in U.S. Political and Popular Culture, 1980\u20131988<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_asian_american_studies\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Asian American Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_asian_american_studies\/toc\/jaas.14.1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 14, Number 1<\/a> (February 2011)<br \/>\npages 33-68<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1096-8598; Print ISSN: 1097-2129<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.tulane.edu\/web\/people.asp?id=janaklipman.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Jana K. Lipman<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Tulane University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the 1980s, U.S. politicians and the media presented Vietnamese Amerasians as quintessential Americans who could be brought home rather than as foreigners or as immigrants. However, Amerasians were non-white immigrants and their rights to enter the United States intertwined with debates over immigration restriction and the ongoing search for American Prisoners of War. The popular emphasis on Amerasians&#8217; American &#8220;look&#8221; resulted in a discourse which valued whiteness, and sometimes blackness, at the expense of Vietnamese mothers and Asian identities. This article argues how Amerasian immigration policies re-inscribed hierarchies of race and sexuality grounded in the history of Asian exclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_asian_american_studies\/v014\/14.1.lipman.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Face Is the Road Map&#8221;: Vietnamese Amerasians in U.S. Political and Popular Culture, 1980\u20131988 Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 1 (February 2011) pages 33-68 E-ISSN: 1096-8598; Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Jana K. Lipman, Assistant Professor of History Tulane University During the 1980s, U.S. politicians and the media presented Vietnamese Amerasians as quintessential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,26,20],"tags":[5540,5541,2682,1130],"class_list":["post-12371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-jana-k-lipman","tag-jana-lipman","tag-journal-of-asian-american-studies","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}