‘I also Melayu ok’ – Malay-Chinese women negotiating the ambivalence of biraciality for agentic autonomy

Racialisation is the process of imbuing a body with meaning (Ahmed). Rockquemore et al.’s study on American Black-White middle-class college youth emphasises the importance of phenotypes in interracial children because “physical appearance is the primary cue for racial group membership… and remains...

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Main Author: Abidin, Crystal
Format: Journal Article
Published: M/C - Media and Culture 2014
Online Access:http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/879
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79376
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description Racialisation is the process of imbuing a body with meaning (Ahmed). Rockquemore et al.’s study on American Black-White middle-class college youth emphasises the importance of phenotypes in interracial children because “physical appearance is the primary cue for racial group membership… and remains the greatest factor in how mixed-race children are classified by others” (114). Wilson’s work on British mixed race 6 to 9-year-olds argues that interracial children classify other children based on how “they locate themselves in the racial structure and how they feel about the various racial groups” (64).
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-793762021-01-13T03:09:37Z ‘I also Melayu ok’ – Malay-Chinese women negotiating the ambivalence of biraciality for agentic autonomy Abidin, Crystal Racialisation is the process of imbuing a body with meaning (Ahmed). Rockquemore et al.’s study on American Black-White middle-class college youth emphasises the importance of phenotypes in interracial children because “physical appearance is the primary cue for racial group membership… and remains the greatest factor in how mixed-race children are classified by others” (114). Wilson’s work on British mixed race 6 to 9-year-olds argues that interracial children classify other children based on how “they locate themselves in the racial structure and how they feel about the various racial groups” (64). 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79376 http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/879 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ M/C - Media and Culture unknown
spellingShingle Abidin, Crystal
‘I also Melayu ok’ – Malay-Chinese women negotiating the ambivalence of biraciality for agentic autonomy
title ‘I also Melayu ok’ – Malay-Chinese women negotiating the ambivalence of biraciality for agentic autonomy
title_full ‘I also Melayu ok’ – Malay-Chinese women negotiating the ambivalence of biraciality for agentic autonomy
title_fullStr ‘I also Melayu ok’ – Malay-Chinese women negotiating the ambivalence of biraciality for agentic autonomy
title_full_unstemmed ‘I also Melayu ok’ – Malay-Chinese women negotiating the ambivalence of biraciality for agentic autonomy
title_short ‘I also Melayu ok’ – Malay-Chinese women negotiating the ambivalence of biraciality for agentic autonomy
title_sort ‘i also melayu ok’ – malay-chinese women negotiating the ambivalence of biraciality for agentic autonomy
url http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/879
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79376