Tag: Pacific Citizen

  • Leaders in the multiracial movement gather to ‘Resist, Reclaim, Reimagine’ – a direct call to action amidst the current political climate faced by historically underrepresented communities in the U.S.

  • Three Unmissable Books That Can Help Us Honor Our Past Pacific Citizen: The National Newspaper of the JACL 2015-04-30 Ryan Kenji Kuramitsu, JACL MDC Youth Representative ‘It was books,” wrote social critic James Baldwin, “that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people…

  • What Are Words Worth: Hapa, Hafu or Mixed-Race? Pacific Citizen: The National Newspaper of the JACL Los Angeles, California 2015-01-27 Gil Asakawa I’ve just finished writing revisions for a new edition of my book, “Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa … & Their Friends,” which will be published this July by Stone…

  • ‘Dear White People’: A Mixed-Race Perspective Pacific Citizen: Then National Newspaper of the JACL Los Angeles, California 2014-11-19 Christine Munteanu, Assistant Program Director Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) Last week, I watched a film called “Dear White People,” which follows the experiences of four black students at a predominately white, fictional Ivy League university. It…