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Racial Ambiguity In Asian American Culture

Book cover of Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture by Jennifer Ho
Jennifer Ho

People often refer to Tiger Woods as a black golfer but never an Asian golfer, despite his mother's Thai heritage. Woods’ identity made professor Jennifer Ho think about the complicated ways society labels multiracial people.

And it also got her thinking about her own experience identifying as a Chinese Jamaican American.

  She turned those thoughts into a new book, "Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture" (Rutgers University Press/2015), which explores some of the social, cultural and historical perspectives on the lives of Asian Americans. 

Host Frank Stasio talks to Ho, professor and director of graduate studies of English at UNC-Chapel Hill, about her findings. 

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.