{"id":18350,"date":"2011-11-22T19:20:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T19:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=18350"},"modified":"2011-11-22T19:20:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T19:20:34","slug":"negotiating-mixed-race-projection-nostalgia-and-the-rejection-of-japanese-brazilian-biracial-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=18350","title":{"rendered":"Negotiating Mixed Race: Projection, Nostalgia, and the Rejection of Japanese-Brazilian Biracial Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_asian_american_studies\/summary\/v014\/14.3.rivas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Negotiating Mixed Race: Projection, Nostalgia, and the Rejection of Japanese-Brazilian Biracial Children<\/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.14.3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 14, Number 3<\/a> (October 2011)<br \/>\npages 361-388<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grinnell.edu\/academic\/chinese\/faculty\/rivas\" target=\"_blank\">Zelideth Mar\u00eda Rivas<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Chinese and Japanese<br \/>\n<em>Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since their arrival in Brazil in 1908, the presence of Japanese immigrants has shaken Brazilian conceptions of race. Narratives of interracial marriages and biracial children in 1930s medical documents and short stories demonstrate the incorporation of the Japanese into Brazil and their subsequent marginalization within the Japanese community. This article compares and contrasts the shifting depictions of biracial Japanese-Brazilian children in Brazil by Brazilians and first generation Japanese immigrants in order to understand how their presence challenges and &#8220;negotiates&#8221; national identity. The process of othering and marginalizing biracial children upsets the hegemonic understandings of racial categorization in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/journal_of_asian_american_studies\/v014\/14.3.rivas.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiating Mixed Race: Projection, Nostalgia, and the Rejection of Japanese-Brazilian Biracial Children Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 3 (October 2011) pages 361-388 Zelideth Mar\u00eda Rivas, Professor of Chinese and Japanese Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Since their arrival in Brazil in 1908, the presence of Japanese immigrants has shaken Brazilian conceptions of race. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,83,21,459,125,8,394],"tags":[1793,2682,8343,8341,8342],"class_list":["post-18350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-japan","tag-journal-of-asian-american-studies","tag-zelideth-m-rivas","tag-zelideth-maria-rivas","tag-zelideth-rivas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18350","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=18350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}