The Voices of Amerasians: Ethnicity, Identity and Empowerment in Interracial Japanese Americans

Abstract: Amerasians are persons of American and Asian ethnic heritage who have appeared as a group mainly in the past forty years. Beginning with the massive involvement of the United States in the Occupation of Japan, thousands of Amerasians have been born from Japan to Vietnam. In the U.S. they are the children of approximately eighty thousand American/Asian couples who have come here since that time.
This study sought to examine the lives of Amerasians in the United States. The primary ...