Generation Five: A Chicana's Journey From Being to Becoming in the Biracial Kitchen

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dc.contributor.advisorBrooks-Gillies, Marilee
dc.contributor.authorChan-Brose, Khirston S.
dc.contributor.otherZimmerman, Anna
dc.contributor.otherKirts, Terry
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-05T17:49:09Z
dc.date.available2019-11-05T17:49:09Z
dc.date.issued2019-10
dc.degree.date2019en_US
dc.degree.disciplineEnglishen
dc.degree.grantorIndiana Universityen_US
dc.degree.levelM.A.en_US
dc.descriptionIndiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)en_US
dc.description.abstractCultural rhetoricians work to decolonize research practices to make space for all possible realities, placing a particular emphasis on story as theory. As such, this thesis utilizes an auto-ethnographic approach to demonstrates how KC Chan-Brose struggled to construct her biracial identity as a white-passing Chicana and how she used food and cooking as a tool for reading and writing cultures. Chan-Brose argues that cultural identity is made, or constructed, by people. With this argument, the oppressive notion of either/or, which implies that biracials must choose one culture and align themselves with that culture, loses power. This loss of power also challenges the notion of authenticity within cultures, positing the notion of authenticity as exclusionary, rather than inclusive. She examines her claim to color by storying her experience of coming to understand herself as biracial. She concludes that biracial identity is constructed from the mundane everyday experiences of our lives, and of both sides of our cultures. Chan-Brose posits that we must acknowledge the ways our culture is constructed by the ways we speak, relate to one another, and understand ourselves, and then garner the authority over our own identities to influence our culture’s construction. To model this, Chan-Brose proposes constructing cultural identity through the lens of fusion food and uses Gloria Anzaldua’s mestizaje and Malea Powell’s metis to demonstrate both/and identities as viewed from biracials who have claimed their biracialness as their power.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/21293
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.7912/C2/413
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NoDerivs 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/us/*
dc.titleGeneration Five: A Chicana's Journey From Being to Becoming in the Biracial Kitchenen_US
dc.typeThesis
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