{"id":3091,"date":"2009-11-13T03:26:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T03:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2009-11-13T03:33:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T03:33:35","slug":"chameleons-fate-transnational-mixed-race-vietnamese-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3091","title":{"rendered":"Chameleon&#8217;s Fate: Transnational Mixed-Race Vietnamese Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/aascpress.metapress.com\/content\/j2lm6952r54764n3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chameleon&#8217;s Fate: Transnational Mixed-Race Vietnamese Identities<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amerasia Journal<br \/>\nUniversity of Califonia,\u00a0Los Angeles\u00a0Asian American Studies Center Press<br \/>\nISSN: 0044-7471<br \/>\n2005<br \/>\nIssue Volume 31, Number 2<br \/>\nPages 51-62<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aasp.uiuc.edu\/p_fionan.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fiona I. B. Ng\u00f4<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies &amp; Gender and Women&#8217;s Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The chameleon&#8217;s fate is an apt metaphor for the lives of mixed-race Vietnamese children, many of whom were born of these kind of brutal cultural contact. In the aftermath of the U.S. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam_war\" target=\"_blank\">war<\/a> in Southeast Asia, a number of mixed-race children told the story of the war. Though the story of the war is physically signified by these individuals, the meanings produced through mixed-race identity are multiple and unfixed. The fluidity of meaning comes partially through shifting historical and geographical contextualizations of transnational mixed-race identities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chameleon&#8217;s Fate: Transnational Mixed-Race Vietnamese Identities Amerasia Journal University of Califonia,\u00a0Los Angeles\u00a0Asian American Studies Center Press ISSN: 0044-7471 2005 Issue Volume 31, Number 2 Pages 51-62 Fiona I. B. Ng\u00f4, Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies &amp; Gender and Women&#8217;s Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The chameleon&#8217;s fate is an apt metaphor for the lives of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,125,8,20],"tags":[1129,1128,1130],"class_list":["post-3091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-amerasia-journal","tag-fiona-i-b-ngo","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091","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=3091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}