Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Design Yourself: IAMNMAI Art Jam National Museum of the American Indian Potomac Atrium, 1st level Fourth Street & Independence Ave., S.W. Washington, D.C. 2012-12-08, 19:00-22:00 EST (Local Time) Design Yourself: IAMNMAI Art Jam” is an artistic partnership designed to explore issues of identity, community and mixed heritage through art while reminding us that everyone, in…

  • Consolidated Colors: Racial Passing and Figurations of the Chinese in Walter White’s Flight and Darryl Zanuck’s Old San Francisco MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 37, Number 4, Winter 2012 pages 93-117 DOI: 10.1353/mel.2012.0064 Amanda M. Page, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Marywood University, Scranton, Pennsylvania Narratives of racial passing frequently investigate how the…

  • The False Laws of Narrative: The Poetry of Fred Wah Wilfrid Laurier University Press October 2009 102 pages Paper ISBN13: 978-1-55458-046-0 Fred Wah, Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate Edited by: Louis Cabri, Associate Professor of English University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada The False Laws of Narrative is a selection of Fred Wah’s poems covering the…

  • Daughters of a British father and a Chinese mother, Edith and Winnifred Eaton pursued wildly different paths. While Edith wrote stories of downtrodden Chinese immigrants under the pen name Sui Sin Far, Winnifred presented herself as Japanese American and published Japanese romance novels in English under the name Onoto Watanna.

  • Finding Edith Eaton Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Volume 29, Number 2, 2012 pages 263-269 DOI: 10.1353/leg.2012.0017 Mary Chapman, Associate Professor of English University of British Columbia Since her critical recovery in the early 1980s, Edith Maude Eaton has been celebrated as the first Asian North American writer and as an early, authentic…

  • The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940. [González Review] H-Net Reviews February, 2012 Fredy González Yale University Robert Chao Romero. The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010. xii + 254 pp., ISBN 978-0-8165-2772-4. Moving across the Transnational Commercial Orbit Robert Chao Romero’s The Chinese in Mexico, the first English-language monograph on the subject,…

  • Chinese-Mexicans celebrate repatriation to Mexico Silicon Valley Mercury News 2012-11-24 Olga R. Rodriguez, Mexican Correspondent Associated Press MEXICO CITY—Juan Chiu Trujillo was 5 years old when he left his native Mexico for a visit to his father’s hometown in southern China. He was 35 when he returned. As Chiu vacationed with his parents, brother and…

  • Josephine Baker: A Chanteuse and a Fighter The Journal of Transnational American Studies Volume 2, Number 1 (2010) 18 pages Konomi Ara Tokyo University of Foreign Studies This excerpt is from her newly-published biography of Josephine Baker, “A Fighting Diva.” It tells the intriguing story of Baker’s travels to Japan, her close friendship with the Japanese…

  • Children of Empire: The Fate of Mixed-Race Individuals in British India, the Caribbean, and the Early American Republic 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 105: North American Conference on British Studies Friday, 2013-01-04, 10:30-12:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom III (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Kathleen…

  • Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (review) Journal of World History Volume 23, Number 3, September 2012 pages 676-680 DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2012.0064 Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor of Anthropology Cornell University Michael Keevak has given us a wonderful, even riveting, deep-historical account of how people in Asia (particularly East Asia) came to be seen as…