 |
| Front cover of War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art |
 |
| Front and back cover of the book. |
My advance copy of
War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art (
University of Washington Press, 2013), which I co-edited with Wei Ming Dariotis, just arrived! It will be available in bookstores and online shortly.
Learn more at:
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/KINWAR.html
War Baby / Love Child examines hybrid Asian
American identity through a collection of essays, artworks, and
interviews at the intersection of critical mixed race studies and
contemporary art. The book pairs artwork and interviews with nineteen
emerging, mid-career, and established mixed race/mixed heritage Asian
American artists, including Li-lan and Kip Fulbeck, with scholarly
essays exploring such topics as Vietnamese Amerasians, Korean
transracial adoptions, and multiethnic Hawai'i. As an increasingly
ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation is coming of age in an
era of "optional identity," this collection brings together first-person
perspectives and a wider scholarly context to shed light on changing
Asian American cultures.
This multiauthor volume features a foreward by
Kent A. Ono, a co-authored preface and introductory essay by the
editors, 19 original artist interviews conducted by the editors, and
original essays from Wei Ming Dariotis and the contributing authors:
Camilla Fojas, Stuart Gaffney, Rudy Guevarra, Jr., Eleana J. Kim,
Richard Lou, Margo Machida, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Lori Pierce,
Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Ken Tanabe, and Wendy Thompson-Taiwo. Major
funding for the publication has been awarded through the Elizabeth
Firestone Graham Foundation, DePaul University and San Francisco State
University.
Featured artists: Mequitta Ahuja, Albert Chong, Serene Ford, Kip Fulbeck, Stuart Gaffney,
Louie Gong, Jane Jin Kaisen, Lori Kay, Li-lan, Richard Lou, Samia Mirza,
Chris Naka, Laurel Nakadate, Gina Osterloh, Adrienne Pao, Cristina Lei
Rodriguez, Amanda Ross-Ho, Jenifer Wofford, Debra Yepa-Pappan.
Laura Kina is associate professor of art,
media, and design at DePaul University. Wei Ming Dariotis is associate
professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University.
"War Baby / Love Child
is an interesting, original, and innovative project that expands the
field of Asian American studies by using visual art as a point of entry
and analysis for the discipline." - Mark Johnson, editor of Asian
American Art: A History, 1850-1970
"One of the strengths
of this original volume is its holistic combination of interviews with
premier fine artists along with the textual, historical, and scholarly
context provided by established and emerging scholars in Asian American
Studies." - Nitasha Sharma, author of Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans,
Blackness, and Global Race Consciousness
Watch the trailer:
