Category: Articles

  • Filipinos in Nueva España: Filipino-Mexican Relations, Mestizaje, and Identity in Colonial and Contemporary Mexico Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 3 (October 2011) pages 389-416 Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University This essay examines how the…

  • Racial Alterity in the Mestizo Nation Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 3 (October 2011) pages 331-359 Jason Oliver Chang, Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies University of Connecticut The eviction of Chinese cotton farmers from Mexicali, Baja California serves as a focal point to explore the racial boundaries of dominant…

  • Negotiating Mixed Race: Projection, Nostalgia, and the Rejection of Japanese-Brazilian Biracial Children Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 3 (October 2011) pages 361-388 Zelideth María Rivas, Professor of Chinese and Japanese Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Since their arrival in Brazil in 1908, the presence of Japanese immigrants has shaken Brazilian conceptions of race.…

  • Showing Her Colors: An Afro-German Writes the Blues in Black and White Callaloo Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 2003 pages 306-319 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2003.0045 Karein Kirsten Goertz, Lecturer of Germanic Language and Literature University of Michigan This essay undertakes a detailed analysis of May Ayim’s Blues in Schwarz Weiss and examines her development of what she…

  • Racial Ambiguity and Whiteness in Brian Castro’s Drift Journal of the European Association of Studies on Australia Volume 2, Number 2, 2009 pages 113-126 ISSN 2013-6897 Marilyne Brun, Lecturer in Postcolonia Studies Université Nancy 2 This article focuses on Drift, the fifth novel of contemporary Australian writer, Brian Castro, and concentrates on the ambiguous racial…

  • Cultural encounters and hyphenated people The Journal of the European Association of Studies on Australia Volume 1, 2009 pages 97-107 ISSN 1988-5946 Anne Holden Rønning, Professor Emerita University of Bergen, Norway Cultural encounters are a dominant feature of contemporary society. Identities are ever-changing ‘routes’ as Hall and others have stated, so we become insiders and…

  • Refusal to be defined by single categories: Lorde in 1983.

  • Pacific children of US servicemen for study Otago Daily Times University of Otago, New Zealand 2010-01-05 Allison Rudd World War 2 brought two million United States servicemen to New Zealand and many Pacific Islands. Inevitably, many formed liaisons with local women and fathered possibly several thousand children. What happened to those babies, and, more than…

  • Families on the color-line: patrolling borders and crossing boundaries Race and Society Volume 5, Issue 2, 2002 Pages 139-161 DOI: 10.1016/j.racsoc.2004.01.001 Erica Chito-Childs, Associate Professor of Sociology Hunter College, City University of New York Multiracial couples and families are becoming increasingly more common, yet opposition to these relationships still exists even if it is often…

  • Racial identity and the spatial assimilation of Mexicans in the United States Social Science Research Volume 21, Issue 3 (September 1992) pages 235-260 DOI: 10.1016/0049-089X(92)90007-4 Douglas S. Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Princeton University Nancy A. Denton, Professor of Sociology Center for Social and Demographic Analysis State University of New…