ASA2 A02
Blog #9
15 November 2015
Reading: “Doing the Mixed Race Dance: Negotiating Social Spaces Within the Multiracial Vietnamese American Class Typology”
Professor Valverde discusses the discrimination that people of Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese background face within the Vietnamese American community. Initially, this article interested me because of my Chinese Vietnamese American background, and I face many of the questions that Valverde proposes. Many of the elements that Vietnamese Americans use to determine a multiracial Vietnamese Americans status in society is based on the idea of the default person, meritocracy, and culture. Multiracial Vietnamese people are viewed as a higher status if they are male, have a Vietnamese father, were born outside of Vietnam, have attained an education, have a prestigious job, and appear more white. Of course, nuances exist within the classification. In addition, colonization plays a role in how a society views the people within. I feel that a colonized mindset has developed, which is visible because of the colorism, racial discrimination, and desire to distance the individual from Vietnam that exists in the Vietnamese American community. How does one navigate double consciousness that arises due to the complexities of racial identities?
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