{"id":46842,"date":"2016-05-02T23:23:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T23:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46842"},"modified":"2016-05-02T23:23:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T23:23:53","slug":"virtues-do-not-all-belong-to-the-whites-the-portrayals-of-americanization-and-miscegenation-in-sui-sin-fars-mrs-spring-fragrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46842","title":{"rendered":"\u201cVirtues do not all belong to the whites\u201d: The Portrayals of Americanization and Miscegenation in Sui Sin Far\u2019s Mrs. Spring Fragrance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.brockport.edu\/segue\/2016\/schedule\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>\u201cVirtues do not all belong to the whites\u201d: The Portrayals of Americanization and Miscegenation in Sui Sin Far\u2019s <\/strong><\/em><strong>Mrs. Spring Fragrance<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.brockport.edu\/segue\/\" target=\"_blank\">SEGue: Symposium for English Graduate Students<\/a><br \/>\nThe College at Brockport, State University of New York<br \/>\n2016-04-23<br \/>\n18 pages<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/villanovastudentbios.blogspot.com\/2014\/09\/jennifer-bradley.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jennifer Bradley<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Villanova University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The works of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sui_Sin_Far\" target=\"_blank\">Sui Sin Far<\/a>, who is widely recognized as the first Asian-American writer, revolve around questions of identity that capture the dissenting voices surrounding Asian-American immigration. A biracial woman of Chinese and English descent, Sui Sin Far writes from a variety of perspectives in order to paint a picture of race relations between Chinese and Americans during a time of intense <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Sinophobia\" target=\"_blank\">Sinophobia<\/a> in the United States. This paper will consider how several of the stories in her collection <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mrs._Spring_Fragrance\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mrs. Spring Fragrance<\/em><\/a> showcase central dilemmas of immigration and assimilation. Critics have examined Sui Sin Far\u2019s portrayal of assimilation, but not through the comparative lenses of Americanization and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>. Americanization entails the sharing and appreciation of American values, customs, and culture while miscegenation is characterized by the mixing and interbreeding of different races. In <em>Mrs. Spring Fragrance<\/em>, white characters tend to view Americanization favorably but regard miscegenation with horror and disgust. Moreover, biracial children of both Chinese and white descent are regarded with confusion and even repulsion. Through miscegenation, white identity mixes with, rather than dominates, Chinese identity. In Mrs. Spring Fragrance, Americanization is often encouraged by whites because it entails an effacement of Chinese heritage, but miscegenation is discouraged because it instead implies an equality of this same Chinese heritage. This paper will turn to the stories of \u201cMrs. Spring Fragrance,\u201d \u201cThe Story of One White Woman Who Married a Chinese,\u201d and \u201cHer Chinese Husband\u201d to examine the contrasting portrayals of Americanization and miscegenation and their implications in forming American culture and society.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.brockport.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&amp;context=segue\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cVirtues do not all belong to the whites\u201d: The Portrayals of Americanization and Miscegenation in Sui Sin Far\u2019s Mrs. Spring Fragrance SEGue: Symposium for English Graduate Students The College at Brockport, State University of New York 2016-04-23 18 pages Jennifer Bradley Villanova University The works of Sui Sin Far, who is widely recognized as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1196,8,14,20],"tags":[3318,23708,23709,3319],"class_list":["post-46842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-usa","tag-edith-maude-eaton","tag-jennifer-bradley","tag-segue-symposium-for-english-graduate-students","tag-sui-sin-far"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46842","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=46842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46843,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46842\/revisions\/46843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}