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Author Kim, Helen Kiyong, author

Title JewAsian : race, religion, and identity for America's newest Jews / Helen Kiyong Kim, Noah Samuel Leavitt
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies of Jews in Society
Studies of Jews in society.
Contents 1. Introducing Jewish American and Asian American marriages -- 2. Understanding the current racial and religious landscape in the United States -- 3. Intermarriage? moving beyond the interfaith debate -- 4. Jews and Asians? separate or the same? -- 5. Love and marriage -- 6. What about the kids? -- 7. Looking forward? becoming JewAsian
Summary "In 2010 approximately 15 percent of all new marriages in the United States were between spouses of different racial, ethnic, or religious backgrounds, raising increasingly relevant questions regarding the multicultural identities of new spouses and their offspring. But while new census categories and a growing body of statistics provide data, they tell us little about the inner workings of day-to-day life for such couples and their children. JewAsian is a qualitative examination of the intersection of race, religion, and ethnicity in the increasing number of households that are Jewish American and Asian American. Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt's book explores the larger social dimensions of intermarriages to explain how these particular unions reflect not only the identity of married individuals but also the communities to which they belong. Using in-depth interviews with couples and the children of Jewish American and Asian American marriages, Kim and Leavitt's research sheds much-needed light on the everyday lives of these partnerships and how their children negotiate their own identities in the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher
"An examination of intersecting racial, ethnic, and religious identities among couples where one partner is Jewish American and the other is Asian American"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Interfaith marriage -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Intermarriage -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Jews -- United States -- Identity -- History -- 21st century
Asian Americans -- Race identity -- History -- 21st century
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Jewish families -- Religious life -- United States
Children of interfaith marriage -- United States
Asian Americans -- Ethnic identity -- History -- 21st century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Marriage.
Asian Americans -- Race identity
Children of interfaith marriage
Interfaith marriage
Intermarriage
Jewish families -- Religious life
Jews -- Identity
Marriage -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Leavitt, Noah Samuel, author
LC no. 2016004603
ISBN 9780803288690
0803288697
9780803288706
0803288700
9780803288713
0803288719
0803285655
9780803285651