ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on interracial and interethnic marriages among US-born/-raised Asian Americans to explore how such individuals negotiate structural and cultural forces impinging upon them and what this reveals about their social/racial positioning, ethnic/racial identity construction, and the nature of current racial/ethnic hierarchies. For Asian American interracial couples, race appears to matter in somewhat different ways in the context of intermarriage. However, the hegemonic norm of whiteness and the ideology of White supremacy primarily remain a pervasive backdrop for many of these interracial marriages, and this can be seen in the White privileged parenting enjoyed by the White spouse. That is, by and large, the White partner remains embedded in a perspective in which whiteness is presumed as the superior norm, a stance which is frequently cloaked in the discourses of colorblind ideology and celebratory multiculturalism.
