In Love Across Borders, Kelly H. Chong compares two types of Asian-ethnic intermarried couples -- interracial and interethnic - and examines what motivates marital boundary crossings and what happens inside these marriages.
Kelly H. Chong is a Professor and Chairperson of Sociology at the University of Kansas. She is the award-winning author of Deliverance and Submission: Evangelical Women and the Negotiation of Patriarchy in South Korea (2008) and numerous journal articles. Her current areas of scholarship include race/ethnicity, gender, immigration, religion, Asian American Studies, and Asian Studies.
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Asian American Intermarriage
3. Marrying-Out: Development of Racially Transgressive Desires
4. Multiracial Family-Making and the Revitalization of Ethnic Identity and Culture
5. Marrying Within the Racial Fold: Romantic Appeal of Co-Racials
6. Constructing Hybridity: Cultural and Ethnic Negotiations in Interethnic Marriage and Family-Making
7. Does Gender Matter?
8. Conclusion: Asian American Intermarriage: Being in and From the Racial Middle
Appendix A: List of Participants
Appendix B: Interviewing
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