Writing Homework Help

“Mixed Race” and Ethnicity in Japan, East Asia, and the United States Reading Exam

Instructions:

For each concept, identify a reading in which it is used, and a quote that discusses the idea
(even if it doesn’t use the concept by name.) Provide the title of reading, the author’s name, and
the page number(s) of the quote that you are referring to. In your own words, explain what the
quote means in the context of the reading, and how that quote illuminates the concept. The quote
cannot speak for you; you need to reiterate the meaning of the quote, to show to us that you
understand what it is saying. The longer the quote, the more explanation will be necessary.
Moreover, the quote alone may be insufficient to explain the meaning of the concept as it is used
in a given article. Add any additional information necessary to explain how the author
understands the concept. Though not essential, drawing connections with other readings or terms
may strengthen your answer. Finally, you must explain what is at stake when the concept is used
in the reading.

Readings and some of their most important concepts:

Affect:
Emotion and reason binary
Vocabulary of affect (shame) and race
Public life of feelings

Neoliberalism:
Ideology of free market
Individual assumption of responsibility and risk

Chapter 6 (Kamoto):
International marriage as distinct from intermarriage
Method of “advancing” the level of “civilization” of the Japanese
Stigma, or lack thereof

Chapter 7 (Robertson):
Eugenics (“instrumental and selective procreation”)
Science and nation-building connection
Lamarckian fallacies
Impact on women

Chapter 16 (King O’Riain):
Complex relationship between race and culture
Function of beauty pageants in communities
Authenticity
Ways to embody culture

Chapter 17 (Hall):
Marginal man
Dual minority
Ethnic identity and gender, language, cultural knowledge

Chapter 29 (Nishime):
How do we see “race”?
Tragic and optimistic associations with mixed race
Time, space, face
Vision as mediated
Legibility of appearances
Representations of race