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Professor Wins Fellowship
Study
will include Chinese-Western interracial marriage and biracial identity.
An associate professor of Chinese studies at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology has won a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship
from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) for 2007-2008
to mixed racial identity
Emma Teng will spend a year in residence at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, working on a comparative study of Chinese and Chinese-American representations of Chinese-Western interracial marriage and biracial identity at the turn of the 20th century.
Emma will be researching literature,
racial theory and historical documents and says her personal goal for
the project is to 'gain a greater understanding of how 'biracial' or
'transracial' identities have been constructed historically and crossculturally
and to attain a 'fresh perspective on contemporary issues.'
The research phase of her Burkhardt project will be an 'exciting period
of new discoveries and learning fascinating details about people's lives
in the past,' says Emma
Reading memoirs has shown her for those of 'mixed' European and Asian descent, 'race' was lived very differently in the U.S., Britain, Hong Kong, China, India, Australia and other parts of the globe, even within the same time period.
'Many of the authors I have been reading,'
says Emma, 'were truly global citizens who migrated multiple times during
their lives; they describe how their racial identities were forced to
shift as they moved to different geographic locations, with different
social norms and different laws.'
The professor of foreign languages and literature whose previous research
focused on pre-modern Chinese ideas about race also plans to offer a
new course, 'Eurasian Biracial Memoirs: 1900-2000,' and to organize readings
through the MIT Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies ( CB/BS ) when
she returns.
'We have a significant number of students at MIT who are biracial and/or
bicultural, even multiracial and multicultural. I hope the class will
provide students with a chance to explore their own identity issues,
but also broaden their understandings by looking at larger historical
and cultural contexts,' adds Emma.
We look forward to reading your findings Emma.
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