Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • Hafu: The Film Hafu: The Film 2013-01-30 Megumi Nishikura, Director, Producer and Cinematographer Lara Perez Takagi, Director, Producer and Cinematographer Marcia Yumi Lise, Thematic Advisor Jilann Spitzmiller, Executive Producer Aika Miyake, Editor Winton White, Music Dear Friends, A belated happy new years to you! We have been quietly busy these past few months but have…

  • Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839–1908) was Brazil’s foremost novelist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a mulatto, Machado experienced the ambiguity of racial identity throughout his life. Literary critics first interpreted Machado as an embittered misanthrope uninterested in the plight of his fellow African Brazilians.

  • When Half is Whole: Understanding Mixed Race Identities Stanford University, Cypress North Tresidder Union 459 Lagunita 2013-02-01, 12:00 PST (Local Time) Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Consulting Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine & Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity will discuss identity development in persons of mixed racial and national backgrounds.  This topic has particular appeal to…

  • The Effect of Parents’ Ethnic Socialization Practices on Ethnic Identity, Self-Esteem and Psychological Adjustment of Multi Ethnic Children in Malaysia World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Issue 72 (December 2012) pages 807-810 Chua Bee Seok Rosnah Ismail Jasmine Adela Mutang Shaziah Iqbal Nur Farhana Ardillah Aftar Alfred Chan Huan Zhi Ferlis Bin Bahari Lailawati…

  • A Lot Like You: A Film by Eliaichi Kimaro USA/Tanzania 2012 55 minutes/82 minutes Eliachi Kimaro, Director (2012) WINNER, Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary: 35th Annual Asian American International Film Festival (New York) (2012) WINNER, Best Documentary: Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto) (2012) WINNER, Jury Prize for Best Documentary: 30th Annual San Francisco International…

  • Have a complicated identity? America’s future looks ‘A Lot Like You’ The Seattle Globalist: Where Seattle Meets the World. 2013-01-25 Sarah Stuteville, Cofounder “The bibimbap, is that dolsot?” asks documentary filmmaker Eli Kimaro looking up from the menu of Wabi-Sabi in Columbia City. She’s trying to gauge the authenticity of the Korean dish in question.…

  • Your Great-Great Grandmother Wasn’t a Cherokee Indian Country Today Media Network 2013-01-25 Jay Daniels Once, at a tribal consultation meeting, Larry Echo Hawk, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, asked me to join him for lunch. Upon learning that I was a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, he asked about my opinion of the…

  • Betwixt and Between: Embracing the Borderlands of My Mixed Heritage Discover Nikkei 2013-01-23 Mari L’Esperance For weeks I resisted beginning work on this essay. Then, synchronistically, I encountered two pieces at Discover Nikkei that helped me get started. The first was Nancy Matsumoto’s excellent review (December 26, 2012) of Nikkei/Hapa psychologist Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu’s latest book…

  • Obama Should Talk About Being Biracial The Daily Beast 2013-01-20 David Kaufman The President identifies as black, but David Kaufman hopes that during his second term, he’ll also discuss his biracial heritage. Four years after he first entered the White House, there’s no longer anything surprising about calling Barack Obama—America’s first black president—a “transformational” leader.…

  • Relationship between physical appearance, sense of belonging and exclusion, and racial/ethnic self-identification among multiracial Japanese European Americans Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 12, Issue 4, October 2006 pages 673-686 DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.12.4.673 Julie M. AhnAllen, Staff Psychologist University Counselling Services Boston College Karen L. Suyemoto, Associate Professor of Psychology and Asian American Studies University…