Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls

Being 'Half' in Japan

Bibliographic Data

ID15100482
AuthorsStephen Murphy‐shigematsu (Stanford University, corresponding author), S MURPHY-SHIGEMATSU
Year2012
Volume15
Issue2
Pages288-291
Publication date2012-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science Japan Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1369-1465 • E-ISSN: 1468-2680
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ssjj/jyr053
OpenAlexW2048978892
LanguageEN
Citations received2

I hated it when I was little ... the school trip photo ... only MY face was somehow different, so I hated that, and now ... it’s like it’s good, I guess. Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls captures the raw voices of teenage girls, revealing their intimate feelings about being ‘half ’ in Japan. Laurel Kamada gives us a rich account of adolescent development and identity construction, based on group interviews with six girls of mixed ancestry, presenting their actual voices in conversations with her and each other. Kamada takes up three central questions: (a) tensions and dilemmas of hybridity, (b) celebration of hybridity, and (c) the intersection of hybridity and gender. Her study is informed and inspired by her insider knowledge of the data collection site of Western Japan, and her long residences living, working, and raising her own mixed-ancestry child there. She is careful to position herself as a white, Western woman and acknowledges how she influences the research through reflexive commentary.

Aesthetics · Face (sociological concept) · Feeling · Hybridity · Identity (music) · Insider · Political science · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · White (mutation) · Anthropology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

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