Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Asian Diaspora
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Children of the Occupation: Japan’s Untold Story NewSouth Books (American Edition coming soon from Rutgers University Press) July 2012 352 pages 234 x 153mm Paperback ISBN: 9781742233314 Walter Hamilton, Journalist and Author This is a beautifully written, deeply moving and well-researched account of the lives of mixed-race children of occupied Japan. The author artfully blends…
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Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011, Volume 1: The Making of the Luso-Asian World: Intricacies of Engagement Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2011 323 pages Soft cover ISBN: 978-981-4345-25-5 See Volume 1 here. Edited by: Laura Jarnagin, Visiting Professorial Fellow Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore also Associate Professor Emerita in the Division…
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The Hafu Project: October Newsletter The Hafu Project Newsletter The Hafu Project October 2012 The Hafu Project talking at a multicultural family workshop organized by TIPP in Meguro We hope this email finds you well. This year the summer was harsh in Japan. We do hope you got to enjoy summer wherever you are in…
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Cedric Dover Wasafiri Volume 27, Issue 2 (2012) pages 56-57 DOI: 10.1080/02690055.2012.662322 Cedric Dover was born in Calcutta in 1904. Dover’s mixed ancestry (English father, Indian mother) and his studies in zoology led to a strong interest in ethnic minorities and their marginalisation. After his studies, he joined the Zoological Survey of India as a…
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Tiger Mom’s Hapa Cubs Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-05-09 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University Are persons with one Asian parent and one non-Asian parent Asian or not Asian? Schools don’t seem to know where to place them, leaving them on their own to determine their identities. In the article, “Some Asians’ college strategy: Don’t check ‘Asian’,” some young…
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Playing for Malaya: A Eurasian Family and the Pacific War University of Hawai‘i Press (Distributed for the National University of Singapore Press) 2011 208 pages Paper ISBN: 978-9971-69-573-6 Rebecca Kenneison Reggie, according to his niece Wendy, ‘only told what Reggie wanted you to know.’ Reggie was my father. He had honed the technique of talking…
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That’s How It Goes: Autobiography Of A Singapore Eurasian Select Books 2008 235 pages Paperback ISBN: 9789814022392 F. A. C. “Jock” Oehlers These memoirs by a member of one of Singapore’s leading Eurasian families offers many sidelights onto Singapore’s life in the mid-20th century. The author, then a dental student, tells of the hardships of…
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The Social World of Batavia: Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia (Second Edition) University of Wisconsin Press April 2009 (First Published in 1983) 312 pages 6 x 9 14 b/w illustrations Jean Gelman Taylor, Associate Professor of History University of New South Wales In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the…