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Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain

Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain

Dr. Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. Her research interests are in emotions, technology and globalization; race/ethnicity and critical race theory; people of mixed descent, beauty, and Japanese Americans. She has published in Ethnicities, Sociology Compass, Journal of Asian American Studies, Amerasia Journal, Irish Geography and in many edited books. She is the lead editor of Global Mixed Race (New York University Press 2014). Her book Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants (University of Minnesota Press) examined the use of blood quantum rules in Japanese American Beauty Pageants. She is currently researching and writing about ‘Global Mixed Race’ and ‘The Globalization of Love’.

Dept. of Sociology
National University of Ireland Maynooth
Maynooth
County Kildare
na
Ireland

Email: rebecca.king-oriain@nuim.ie
Web: http://www.nuim.ie/sociology/our-people/rebecca-king-oriain

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