The Chinese face in Australia: multi-generational ethnicity among Australian-born Chinese

The book explains how multi-generational Australian-born Chinese (ABC) negotiate the balance of two cultures. It explores both the philosophical and theoretical levels, focusing on deconstructing and re-evaluating the concept of ‘Chineseness.’ At a social and experiential level, it concentrates on how successive generations of early migrants experience, negotiate and express their Chinese identity. The diasporic literature has taken up the idea of hybrid identityconstruction largely in relation to first- and second-generation migrants andto the sojourner’s sense of roots in a diasporic setting somewhat lost in thedebate over Chinese diasporas and identities are the experiences of long-termmigrant communities. Their experiences are usually discussed in terms of the melting-pot concepts of assimilation and integration that assume ethnic identification decreases and eventually disappears over successive generations. Based on ethnography, fieldwork and participant observation on multi-generational Australian-born Chinese whose families have resided in Australia from three tosix generations, this study reveals a contrasting picture of ethnic identification. Unique dual focus on racial discrimination as stimulus and strategies of coping with racism as response Autobiographies and visual material enhance the theoretical material. Addresses a global readership interested in ethnicity, race relations and diasporas. INDICE: Introduction: Chineseness and The Chinese Diaspora. Constructing and Performing Chineseness. The Voice of a Woman: Doreen Cheong. The Voice of aMan: Reg Mu Sung. Authenticity and Physicality: Chineseness in Cultural and Racial Discourses. Chineseness Through the Life Course. Decentered Linkages andHybridity: The Ambivalence of Chineseness as Identity. Conclusion.

• ISBN: 978-1-4614-2130-6
• Editorial: Springer New York
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 150
• Fecha Publicación: 30/04/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés