Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls

Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls PDF Author: Laurel D. Kamada
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 184769232X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Book Description
This book examines the ethnic, gendered, and embodied 'hybrid' identities of 'half-Japanese' girls in Japan, colourfully narrated through their own voices. The girls struggle to positively construct their identities into positions of control over disempowering discourses of 'otherness', while also celebrating cultural capital as they negotiate their constructed identities of 'Japaneseness', 'whiteness' and 'halfness/doubleness'.