{"id":36712,"date":"2014-06-16T02:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36712"},"modified":"2014-06-16T02:48:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T02:48:10","slug":"leilani-nishime-explores-the-asian-american-experience-in-her-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36712","title":{"rendered":"LeiLani Nishime explores the Asian American experience in her new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleglobalist.com\/2014\/03\/25\/nishime-multiracial-asian-americans-book\/21601\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>LeiLani Nishime explores the Asian American experience in her new book<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleglobalist.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Seattle Globalist<\/a><br \/>\n2014-03-25<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:dianehan@uw.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Diane Han<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>University of Washington<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We understand that race doesn\u2019t exist biologically, but it doesn\u2019t mean that race isn\u2019t real.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think we see race because it exists in the world, but really, we learn to see race,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.com.washington.edu\/nishime\/\" target=\"_blank\">LeiLani Nishime<\/a>, author of the recently published \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=31406\" target=\"_blank\">Undercover Asian: Multiracial Asian Americans in Visual Culture<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the approach to race is not to ignore it or pretend it is not there, but to confront it, see that it\u2019s there, and understand what it does for us in a social context.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nishime\u2019s book is a critical examination of the ways multiracial Asian Americans are represented in mass media&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleglobalist.com\/2014\/03\/25\/nishime-multiracial-asian-americans-book\/21601\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeiLani Nishime explores the Asian American experience in her new book The Seattle Globalist 2014-03-25 Diane Han University of Washington We understand that race doesn\u2019t exist biologically, but it doesn\u2019t mean that race isn\u2019t real. \u201cWe think we see race because it exists in the world, but really, we learn to see race,\u201d says LeiLani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8413,394,20],"tags":[17512,1985,13480,13479],"class_list":["post-36712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-communications","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-diane-han","tag-leilani-nishime","tag-seattle-globalist","tag-the-seattle-globalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36712","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=36712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}