Rebecca Chiyoko King‐o’riain
Biographic Data
| ID | 4178903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Chiyoko King‐o’riain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca Chiyoko |
| FAMILY NAME | King‐o’riain |
| SIGNATURE | O’RIAIN R C K |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Ireland, Maynooth |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4573-9218 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Wasian Check: Remixing ‘Asian + White’ Multiraciality on TikTok
TikTok is the fastest growing short video application and immensely popular with younger generations to express their thoughts, ideas, and most relevant to this issue, their identities including mixed-race identity. This paper asks: How did young mixed-race people choose to express their identity on TikTok in the #wasian trend and how does the app shape these mixed-race identity expressions? The answer lies in how the emotional affordances of Tik…
Loving the Stranger: Mixed Couples and Mixed Emotions
This paper brings together two of the key theoretical concepts attributed to Georg Simmel – the notion of the ‘stranger’ (the person who is not indigenous to a social context and perpetually seen as possibly not belonging) and ‘love’ as socially constructed which has the potential to turn an individual love into a notion of ‘super individual couplehood’ unifying two individuals and transforming them in the process. Based on in-depth qualitative i…
“They were having so much fun, so genuinely . . .”: K-pop fan online affect and corroborated authenticity
This article examines the relationship between K-pop boybands and their fandoms in the West as mediated by digital streaming performances. It investigates the socio-emotional organization of online interaction orders in K-pop fan communities, the emotional forms of expression, and the social assessment of their authenticity. The article asks two questions. First, how is the loyalty of fans elicited through the emotional experiences of fandom onli…
How the Irish became more than white: Mixed-race Irishness in historical and contemporary contexts
Mixed-race people can be caught in a web of stereotypes – being pathologised as tragically ‘mixed up’ or heralded as the precursors of a ‘rainbow nation’. Many of these stereotypes have come primarily from research and popular cultural images in the US and the UK. Recently, within Critical Mixed-Race Studies, there is a call to study mixed-race people outside of these stereotypes, particularly those living outside the US and UK. Ireland is a uniq…
What's Love Got To Do With It? Emotional Authority and State Regulation of Interracial/national Couples in Ireland
Globalization has increased the mobility of people across national borders and this has increased the number of interracial/national couples where partners do not necessarily have the same races, citizenships, cultures or languages across the globe. When interracial/national couples (both same-sex and heterosexual) try to cross borders to put down family roots, nation states often use emotions and citizenship laws to assert their authority to con…
Embedded Racism: Japan's Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination
Enduring or Crossing Distance for Love? Negotiating Love and Distance in the Lives of Mixed Transnational Couples
Within the field of transnationalism and globalization, studies have tended to focus on the flow of people, ideas and goods ( Giddens 2003 , Beck 2011 , Fitzgerald 2008 ). Within the field of migration this has meant importantly an increasing focus on studies of gender, migration and emotion ( Brooks and Simpson 2013 ; Svasek and Skrbis 2007 , Baldassar 2008 ). However, these studies tend to focus on the context of migration and how that shapes d…
Purity, Racial
Racial purity is defined as existing of only one racial background and not being racially mixed. This entry defines racial purity, traces it through modern western historical thought, and then provides some examples.
Emotional streaming and transconnectivity: Skype and emotion practices in transnational families in Ireland
In this article I explore how transnational families, living in Ireland, use Skype to stay in touch with their loved ones. From 2010 to 2012, data were collected from a purposive, but broad sample of 36 qualitative ethnographic interviews with mixed couples (one partner identifies as Irish and one does not), throughout various parts of the Republic of Ireland. I outline how the use of Skype allows transnational families to create spaces of transc…
Making the Perfect Queen: The Cultural Production of Identities in Beauty Pageants
Beauty queens are symbolic representations of collective cultural indentities and beauty pageants are fields of active ‘cultural production’. This article surveys the growing literature on beauty pageants to better understand how culture is produced within the contexts of pageants. To do so, the article examines how beauty pageants operate as sites of commodification and consumption in a world increasingly influenced by global markets and media i…
Counting on the `Celtic Tiger: Adding ethnic census categories in the Republic of Ireland
On 23 April 2006, an ethnicity question appeared for the first time on the census in the Republic of Ireland. This article analyses the evolution and addition of this question as an illustration of a specific process of state racialization in the Irish census. As such, it illuminates the social and political contestation of the meaning of race, racial categories and ethnicity in the Republic of Ireland through an examination of the interplay betw…
Colorado’s Japanese Americans: From 1886 to the Present
Book Review| July 01 2006 Colorado’s Japanese Americans: From 1886 to the Present Colorado’s Japanese Americans: From 1886 to the Present, Bill Hosokawa. Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 25 (4): 205–206. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501770 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Sit…
Emotional streaming and transconnectivity: Skype and emotion practices in transnational families in Ireland
In this article I explore how transnational families, living in Ireland, use Skype to stay in touch with their loved ones. From 2010 to 2012, data were collected from a purposive, but broad sample of 36 qualitative ethnographic interviews with mixed couples (one partner identifies as Irish and one does not), throughout various parts of the Republic of Ireland. I outline how the use of Skype allows transnational families to create spaces of transc…
How the Irish became more than white: Mixed-race Irishness in historical and contemporary contexts
Mixed-race people can be caught in a web of stereotypes – being pathologised as tragically ‘mixed up’ or heralded as the precursors of a ‘rainbow nation’. Many of these stereotypes have come primarily from research and popular cultural images in the US and the UK. Recently, within Critical Mixed-Race Studies, there is a call to study mixed-race people outside of these stereotypes, particularly those living outside the US and UK. Ireland is a uniq…
Making the Perfect Queen: The Cultural Production of Identities in Beauty Pageants
Beauty queens are symbolic representations of collective cultural indentities and beauty pageants are fields of active ‘cultural production’. This article surveys the growing literature on beauty pageants to better understand how culture is produced within the contexts of pageants. To do so, the article examines how beauty pageants operate as sites of commodification and consumption in a world increasingly influenced by global markets and media i…
Counting on the `Celtic Tiger: Adding ethnic census categories in the Republic of Ireland
On 23 April 2006, an ethnicity question appeared for the first time on the census in the Republic of Ireland. This article analyses the evolution and addition of this question as an illustration of a specific process of state racialization in the Irish census. As such, it illuminates the social and political contestation of the meaning of race, racial categories and ethnicity in the Republic of Ireland through an examination of the interplay betw…
Wasian Check: Remixing ‘Asian + White’ Multiraciality on TikTok
TikTok is the fastest growing short video application and immensely popular with younger generations to express their thoughts, ideas, and most relevant to this issue, their identities including mixed-race identity. This paper asks: How did young mixed-race people choose to express their identity on TikTok in the #wasian trend and how does the app shape these mixed-race identity expressions? The answer lies in how the emotional affordances of Tik…
What's Love Got To Do With It? Emotional Authority and State Regulation of Interracial/national Couples in Ireland
Globalization has increased the mobility of people across national borders and this has increased the number of interracial/national couples where partners do not necessarily have the same races, citizenships, cultures or languages across the globe. When interracial/national couples (both same-sex and heterosexual) try to cross borders to put down family roots, nation states often use emotions and citizenship laws to assert their authority to con…
Enduring or Crossing Distance for Love? Negotiating Love and Distance in the Lives of Mixed Transnational Couples
Within the field of transnationalism and globalization, studies have tended to focus on the flow of people, ideas and goods ( Giddens 2003 , Beck 2011 , Fitzgerald 2008 ). Within the field of migration this has meant importantly an increasing focus on studies of gender, migration and emotion ( Brooks and Simpson 2013 ; Svasek and Skrbis 2007 , Baldassar 2008 ). However, these studies tend to focus on the context of migration and how that shapes d…
Colorado’s Japanese Americans: From 1886 to the Present
Book Review| July 01 2006 Colorado’s Japanese Americans: From 1886 to the Present Colorado’s Japanese Americans: From 1886 to the Present, Bill Hosokawa. Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2006) 25 (4): 205–206. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501770 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Sit…
Making the Perfect Queen: The Cultural Production of Identities in Beauty Pageants
Beauty queens are symbolic representations of collective cultural indentities and beauty pageants are fields of active ‘cultural production’. This article surveys the growing literature on beauty pageants to better understand how culture is produced within the contexts of pageants. To do so, the article examines how beauty pageants operate as sites of commodification and consumption in a world increasingly influenced by global markets and media i…
Counting on the `Celtic Tiger: Adding ethnic census categories in the Republic of Ireland
On 23 April 2006, an ethnicity question appeared for the first time on the census in the Republic of Ireland. This article analyses the evolution and addition of this question as an illustration of a specific process of state racialization in the Irish census. As such, it illuminates the social and political contestation of the meaning of race, racial categories and ethnicity in the Republic of Ireland through an examination of the interplay betw…
Purity, Racial
Racial purity is defined as existing of only one racial background and not being racially mixed. This entry defines racial purity, traces it through modern western historical thought, and then provides some examples.
Emotional streaming and transconnectivity: Skype and emotion practices in transnational families in Ireland
In this article I explore how transnational families, living in Ireland, use Skype to stay in touch with their loved ones. From 2010 to 2012, data were collected from a purposive, but broad sample of 36 qualitative ethnographic interviews with mixed couples (one partner identifies as Irish and one does not), throughout various parts of the Republic of Ireland. I outline how the use of Skype allows transnational families to create spaces of transc…
Enduring or Crossing Distance for Love? Negotiating Love and Distance in the Lives of Mixed Transnational Couples
Within the field of transnationalism and globalization, studies have tended to focus on the flow of people, ideas and goods ( Giddens 2003 , Beck 2011 , Fitzgerald 2008 ). Within the field of migration this has meant importantly an increasing focus on studies of gender, migration and emotion ( Brooks and Simpson 2013 ; Svasek and Skrbis 2007 , Baldassar 2008 ). However, these studies tend to focus on the context of migration and how that shapes d…
Embedded Racism: Japan's Visible Minorities and Racial Discrimination
What's Love Got To Do With It? Emotional Authority and State Regulation of Interracial/national Couples in Ireland
Globalization has increased the mobility of people across national borders and this has increased the number of interracial/national couples where partners do not necessarily have the same races, citizenships, cultures or languages across the globe. When interracial/national couples (both same-sex and heterosexual) try to cross borders to put down family roots, nation states often use emotions and citizenship laws to assert their authority to con…
Loving the Stranger: Mixed Couples and Mixed Emotions
This paper brings together two of the key theoretical concepts attributed to Georg Simmel – the notion of the ‘stranger’ (the person who is not indigenous to a social context and perpetually seen as possibly not belonging) and ‘love’ as socially constructed which has the potential to turn an individual love into a notion of ‘super individual couplehood’ unifying two individuals and transforming them in the process. Based on in-depth qualitative i…
“They were having so much fun, so genuinely . . .”: K-pop fan online affect and corroborated authenticity
This article examines the relationship between K-pop boybands and their fandoms in the West as mediated by digital streaming performances. It investigates the socio-emotional organization of online interaction orders in K-pop fan communities, the emotional forms of expression, and the social assessment of their authenticity. The article asks two questions. First, how is the loyalty of fans elicited through the emotional experiences of fandom onli…
How the Irish became more than white: Mixed-race Irishness in historical and contemporary contexts
Mixed-race people can be caught in a web of stereotypes – being pathologised as tragically ‘mixed up’ or heralded as the precursors of a ‘rainbow nation’. Many of these stereotypes have come primarily from research and popular cultural images in the US and the UK. Recently, within Critical Mixed-Race Studies, there is a call to study mixed-race people outside of these stereotypes, particularly those living outside the US and UK. Ireland is a uniq…
Wasian Check: Remixing ‘Asian + White’ Multiraciality on TikTok
TikTok is the fastest growing short video application and immensely popular with younger generations to express their thoughts, ideas, and most relevant to this issue, their identities including mixed-race identity. This paper asks: How did young mixed-race people choose to express their identity on TikTok in the #wasian trend and how does the app shape these mixed-race identity expressions? The answer lies in how the emotional affordances of Tik…
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