Research Catalog

Title

JewAsian : race, religion, and identity for America's newest Jews / Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt.

Author

Kim, Helen Kiyong

Publication

• Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

Leavitt, Noah Samuel

Description

xxi, 170 pages; 24 cm

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"--
• "An examination of intersecting racial, ethnic, and religious identities among couples where one partner is Jewish American and the other is Asian American"--

Series Statement

Studies of Jews in society

Uniform Title

Studies of Jews in society.

Subjects

• Intermarriage
• Interfaith marriage
• Asian Americans > Race identity
• Jewish families > Religious life
• Asian Americans > Race identity > History > 21st century
• Marriage > Religious aspects > Judaism
• Intermarriage > United States > History > 21st century
• Interfaith marriage > United States > History > 21st century
• United States
• Jews > Identity
• 2000-2099
• Jewish families > Religious life > United States
• History
• Jews > United States > Identity > History > 21st century
• Children of interfaith marriage > United States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-161) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 16-7855

ISBN

• 9780803285651
• 0803285655

LCCN

2016004191

OCLC

928607526

Author

Kim, Helen Kiyong, author.

Title

JewAsian : race, religion, and identity for America's newest Jews / Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Samuel Leavitt.

Publisher

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies of Jews in society

Studies of Jews in society.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-161) and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Leavitt, Noah Samuel, author.

Other Form:

Online version: Kim, Helen Kiyong, author. JewAsian. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2016] 9780803288690 (DLC) 2016004603

Research Call Number

JFE 16-7855