JUNE 2012 • War Baby / Love Child set to be released January 2013

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Li-lan is one of the featured artists interviewed in the upcoming book being published by The University of Washington Press, War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, edited by Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis.

From the University of Washington Press:

War Baby / Love Child examines hybrid Asian American identity through a collection of essays, artworks, and interviews at the intersection of critical mixed race studies and contemporary art. The book pairs artwork and interviews with nineteen emerging, mid-career, and established mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American artists, including Li-lan and Kip Fulbeck, with scholarly essays exploring such topics as Vietnamese Amerasians, Korean transracial adoptions, and multiethnic Hawaii. 

As an increasingly ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation is coming of age in an era of “optional identity,” this collection brings together first-person perspectives and a wider scholarly context to shed light on changing Asian American cultures.

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Laura Kina
 is associate professor of art, media, and design at DePaul University. 

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Wei Ming Dariotis
 is assistant professor of Asian American studies at San Francisco State University.

“War Baby / Love Child is an interesting, original, and innovative project that expands the field of Asian American studies by using visual art as a point of entry and analysis for the discipline.” – Mark Johnson, editor of Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970

“One of the strengths of this original volume is its holistic combination of interviews with premier fine artists along with the textual, historical, and scholarly context provided by established and emerging scholars in Asian American Studies.” 
– Nitasha Sharma, author of Hip Hop Desis: South Americans, Blackness, and Global Race Consciousness

The book can be pre-ordered here: War Baby / Love Child

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