ASA 115 001
19 July 2019
Professor Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde's "Doing the Mixed Race Dance: Negotiating Social Spaces Within the Multiracial Vietnamese American Class Typology" analyzes the ways in which Multiracial Vietnamese Americans navigate their way through social spaces in the Vietnamese American community. The way Professor Valverde equates this movement as a dance as well as utilize the first-person perspective is an interesting take on such a complicated issue, because as mentioned by her, this is a "rarely discussed topic" (142). By bringing the readership in close, I feel like that was an example of the "cultural bridge" that is one of their themes for this week. This first-person perspective allows the readers to essentially see through Professor Valverde's eyes and provides us with a better understanding of what Multiracial Vietnamese Americans go through in their day-to-day life. Obviously this is only a mere fraction of their experiences, but this gives the readership an idea of what the dance is like.
The most intriguing testimony from the many Multiracial Vietnamese Americans that Professor Valverde included was Harmony Jones who identifies with her sexuality more than with her race, which is isn't necessarily separated from one another, because finding a sense of belonging and acceptance doesn't have to be with just "race" or sexuality, it's entirely of how and what you make of it to make yourself comfortable in your own skin.
Attached is a photo that shows the many factors that encompasses a person, and that it isn't just ethnicity or sexuality that make up your personhood -- it's many other things too!
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