Fence sitters, switch hitters, and Bi-Bi girls: An exploration of Hapa and bisexual identities

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Volumn 21, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 171-180

  Thompson, Beverly Yuen ^a  

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EID: 0034364962     PISSN: 01609009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3347042     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. Claire Huang Kinsley, "Questions People Have Asked Me. Questions I Have Asked Myself," in Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women, ed. Carol Camper (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1994), 113-32.
2. Maria P. P. Root, "Resolving 'Other' Status Identity Development of Biracial Individuals," in Diversity and Complexity in Feminist Therapy, ed Laura S. Brown and Maria P. P. Root (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1990), 197, original emphasis.
3. A term of Hawaiian origin, hapa haole literally means "half outsider" or half white. Although it was originally used as an insult, it is currently being used on the mainland by Asian/Pacific Islanders as a positive term designating those who are mixed race of Asian/Pacific Islander descent.
4. Root, "Resolving 'Other' Status," 185, original emphasis.
5. Overwhelmingly I find diat Asian American literature does not mention nonheterosexual identities, which continues to promote invisibility for queer Asians. A few notable exceptions are Russel Leong, ed., Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience (New York: Routleige, 1996); Sharon Lim-Hing, ed., The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writings by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bi-sexual Women (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1994); and David L. Eng and Alice Y. Horn, eds., Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998).
6. Overwhelmingly I find diat Asian American literature does not mention nonheterosexual identities, which continues to promote invisibility for queer Asians. A few notable exceptions are Russel Leong, ed., Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience (New York: Routleige, 1996); Sharon Lim-Hing, ed., The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writings by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bi-sexual Women (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1994); and David L. Eng and Alice Y. Horn, eds., Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998).
7. Overwhelmingly I find diat Asian American literature does not mention nonheterosexual identities, which continues to promote invisibility for queer Asians. A few notable exceptions are Russel Leong, ed., Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience (New York: Routleige, 1996); Sharon Lim-Hing, ed., The Very Inside: An Anthology of Writings by Asian and Pacific Islander Lesbian and Bi-sexual Women (Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1994); and David L. Eng and Alice Y. Horn, eds., Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998).
8. Dana Y. Takagi, "Maiden Voyage: Excursion into Sexuality and Identity Politics in Asian America," Amerasia Journal 20:1 (1994): 2.
9. David L. Eng and Alice Y. Horn, "Introduction: Q & A: Notes on a Queer Asian America," in Eng and Horn, Q & A, 3.
10. I did discover, however, an emerging discussion on multiple identities and their necessary inclusion in feminist research. Through such books as Gloria Anzaldúa, ed., Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color (San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1990); Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Watertown, Mass.: Persephone Press, 1981); and Asian Women United of California, ed., Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989), the voices of women of color and lesbians are emerging. Indeed, the postmodern phase we are in has pushed the concept of difference to buzz word status. Yet, although frequently mentioned, difference is yet to be completely integrated.
11. I did discover, however, an emerging discussion on multiple identities and their necessary inclusion in feminist research. Through such books as Gloria Anzaldúa, ed., Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color (San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1990); Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Watertown, Mass.: Persephone Press, 1981); and Asian Women United of California, ed., Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989), the voices of women of color and lesbians are emerging. Indeed, the postmodern phase we are in has pushed the concept of difference to buzz word status. Yet, although frequently mentioned, difference is yet to be completely integrated.
12. I did discover, however, an emerging discussion on multiple identities and their necessary inclusion in feminist research. Through such books as Gloria Anzaldúa, ed., Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color (San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1990); Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Watertown, Mass.: Persephone Press, 1981); and Asian Women United of California, ed., Making Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women (Boston: Beacon Press, 1989), the voices of women of color and lesbians are emerging. Indeed, the postmodern phase we are in has pushed the concept of difference to buzz word status. Yet, although frequently mentioned, difference is yet to be completely integrated.
13. Karen Maeda Allman, "(Un)Natural Boundaries: Mixed Race, Gender, and Sexuality," in The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier, ed. Maria P. P. Root (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1996), 287, emphasis original.
14. Paula C. Rust, "Managing Multiple Identities: Diversity Among Bisexual Women and Men," in Bisexuality: The Psychology and Politics of an Invisible Minority, ed. Beth A. Firestein (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1996), 254.
15. Rust, "Managing Multiple Identities," 69-70.
16. Marian M. Sciachitano, "Claiming a Politics of Biracial Asian American Difference," in A Gathering of Voices on the Asian American Experience, ed. Annette White-Parks et al. (Fort Atkinson, Wis.: Highsmith Press, 1994), 52.
17. Teresa Kay Williams, "Race-ing and Being Raced: The Critical Interrogation of 'Passing,'" Amerasia Journal 23:1 (1997): 64.