{"id":4893,"date":"2010-02-01T15:18:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=4893"},"modified":"2011-12-09T17:40:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T17:40:47","slug":"the-amerasian-problem-blood-duty-and-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=4893","title":{"rendered":"The Amerasian Problem: Blood, Duty, and Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0047117807073769\" target=\"_blank\">The Amerasian Problem: Blood, Duty, and Race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ire.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">International Relations<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ire.sagepub.com\/content\/21\/1.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 21, Number 1<\/a> (March 2007)<br \/>\npages 86-102<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0047117807073769\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0047117807073769<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.ithaca.edu\/sgage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sue-Je Lee Gage<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>Ithaca University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The concept of \u2018mixed blood\u2019 is not a new one; however, it was not until 1982 that an unprecedented policy entitled \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Homecoming_Act\" target=\"_blank\">The Amerasian Act<\/a>\u2019 was created by the US government. Focusing on the author&#8217;s ethnographic fieldwork in South Korea and the US, this article will unpack the assumptions underlying the seemingly religious statement \u2018the American thing to do\u2019 in terms of US policy, where ostensibly scientific notions of \u2018race\u2019, blood and identity are employed.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/ire.sagepub.com\/cgi\/reprint\/21\/1\/86\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amerasian Problem: Blood, Duty, and Race International Relations Volume 21, Number 1 (March 2007) pages 86-102 DOI: 10.1177\/0047117807073769 Sue-Je Lee Gage, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Ithaca University The concept of \u2018mixed blood\u2019 is not a new one; however, it was not until 1982 that an unprecedented policy entitled \u2018The Amerasian Act\u2019 was created by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,8,26,20],"tags":[1969,228,229,1968,1967],"class_list":["post-4893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-international-relations","tag-korea","tag-south-korea","tag-sue-je-gage","tag-sue-je-lee-gage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893","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=4893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}