Category: Articles

  • The New Normal The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2013-04-11 Mia Nakaji Monnier, Rafu Staff Writer Hapa Japan Festival and JANM exhibit celebrate mixed Japanese and Japanese Americans Outside the newest exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum hangs a banner. Up close, visitors can make out individual pictures—each about the size of…

  • The Puzzling Whiteness of Brazilian Politicians Berkeley Review of Latin American Studies Center for Latin American Studies University of California, Berkeley Fall 2012 pages 30-32 Jean Spencer, Outreach and Publications Coordinator Center for Latin American Studies Is Brazil really a racial democracy? The idea of racial democracy, originally put forth by the Brazilian sociologist Gilberto…

  • Stepping toward multiculturalism The Korea Herald 2013-04-03 Cho Chung-un Experts call for a long-term vision of Korea as a multiethnic society, social agreement on overall immigration policy Globalization, demographic change and economic growth have led Korea to embrace cultural diversity and tolerance toward others. But biases and discrimination against foreigners remain and Koreans’ pride for…

  • DNA Ancestry Tests: Simultaneously Powerful and Limited KQED QUEST KQED: Public Media for Northern California 2013-04-08 Dr. Barry Starr, Geneticist-in-Residence Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, California Using a common DNA ancestry test, President Obama would be 100% Caucasian. Sometimes genetic tests aren’t as useful as you think they will be. For example, if President…

  • W.Va. historian to talk on pre-Civil War slave economy The Charleston Gazette Charleston, West Virginia 2013-04-09 Douglas Imbrogno CHARLESTON, W.Va.—Ending slavery was a moral question that haunted early American history, but it was one inextricably tangled up in economics. While West Virginia was a state born in 1863 out of the tumult over slavery and…

  • ‘Mixed Kids Are the Cutest’ Isn’t Cute? The Root 2013-04-08 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Staff Writer “I’m a Caucasian woman with a biracial child (her father is black). I live in a predominantly white community. Why is it that whenever people discover that I have a ‘mixed’ child, they always say things like, ‘Oh, he/she must be…

  • Why isn’t multiculturalism accepted in society nowadays? The Voice London, England 2013-01-25 Kamran Assadi Kamran Assadi on why diverse cultural identities in Britain should be embraced not questioned I BELIEVE society and the environment you live in can alter your opinions and the way you view life. Stereotypes can alter our thinking towards different religions,…

  • Virgil Westdale: Farm Boy, Pilot, Soldier, Inventor, Author, and Gentleman Japanese American National Museum Stories 2010-09-09 Esther Newman Virgil Westdale’s exceptional life story might never have been published had he not attended a Halloween dance. Unsure of what to wear, the World War II veteran donned his Army uniform of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team,…

  • Performing ‘Race’ and Challenging Racism One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for her Father’s Racial Approval Blog Updates 2013-04-08 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, Playwright, Producer, Actress, Educator It is an exciting time to be an actor, when the notion of ‘performance’ is taking on new meanings and has the potential to change the way we…

  • A White Face With A Forgotten African Family All Things Considered National Public Radio 2012-11-24 Jacki Lyden, Host Growing up blond-haired and blue-eyed in Southern California, Joe Mozingo always thought his family name was Italian. But as an adult, Mozingo became skeptical of that theory when friends and co-workers began to ask him about his…