{"id":27119,"date":"2012-12-27T05:12:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T05:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27119"},"modified":"2017-02-10T16:31:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T16:31:30","slug":"book-review-exploring-the-borderlands-of-race-nation-sex-and-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27119","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Exploring the Borderlands of Race, Nation, Sex and Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovernikkei.org\/en\/journal\/2012\/12\/26\/exploring-the-borderlands\/\" target=\"_blank\">Book Review: Exploring the Borderlands of Race, Nation, Sex and Gender<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovernikkei.org\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Discover Nikkei: Japanese Migrants and Their Descendants<\/a><br \/>\n2012-12-26<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovernikkei.org\/en\/journal\/authors\/matsumoto-nancy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Matsumoto<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Growing up in predominantly white <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marin_County,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Marin County<\/a>, mixed-race <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yonsei_(fourth-generation_Nikkei)\" target=\"_blank\">yonsei<\/a> Akemi Johnson hates her name and just wants to blend in. In college, though, her attitude changes. She studies race and ethnicity and travels to Japan. Though her stated purpose there is to study issues around the American bases in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Okinawa_Prefecture\" target=\"_blank\">Okinawa<\/a>, she later writes, \u201dMy real motives were more personal and intertwined with the past, with traumas that had been born many years before.\u201d She reflects on why her grandparents, who were imprisoned at the Tule Lake and Gila River concentration camps, never talked about those experiences. Eventually she returns to America satisfied that she has confronted her \u201cfears of association, shame, really, of my Japanese ancestry\u2014and won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson\u2019s story is just one of many that psychologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.murphyshigematsu.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu<\/a> tells in his latest book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=24227\" target=\"_blank\">When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities<\/a><\/em>. Exploring the complex issue of identity among mixed-race Asians has been his life work. With subtleness and great empathy he guides us through what he calls \u201cthe borderlands\u201d where transnational and multiethnic identities are formed, arguing that in an increasingly globalized world, identities are more flexible and inclusive, and can \u201cchallenge the meaning of national and racial categories and boundaries.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovernikkei.org\/en\/journal\/2012\/12\/26\/exploring-the-borderlands\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review: Exploring the Borderlands of Race, Nation, Sex and Gender Discover Nikkei: Japanese Migrants and Their Descendants 2012-12-26 Nancy Matsumoto Growing up in predominantly white Marin County, mixed-race yonsei Akemi Johnson hates her name and just wants to blend in. In college, though, her attitude changes. She studies race and ethnicity and travels to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,5,8,20],"tags":[1922,13189,13190,512],"class_list":["post-27119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-discover-nikkei","tag-discover-nikkei-japanese-migrants-and-their-descendants","tag-nancy-matsumoto","tag-stephen-murphy-shigematsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27119","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=27119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51480,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27119\/revisions\/51480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}