Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Mixed-race Jewish children locate their communal comfort zone The Jewish Chronicle Online 2009-11-12 Sue Fishkoff Dafna Wu, a 48-year-old San Francisco nurse, was born to a Jewish mother and Chinese father. She was raised Jewish but looks Asian, as does her daughter, nine-year-old Amalia, whose father was also Chinese. The Hebrew School Amalia attends is…

  • Vivek Bald’s meticulous reconstruction reveals a lost history of South Asian sojourning and life-making in the United States. At a time when Asian immigrants were vilified and criminalized, Bengali Muslims quietly became part of some of America’s most iconic neighborhoods of color, from Tremé in New Orleans to Detroit’s Black Bottom, from West Baltimore to…

  • The Eurasian Face Blacksmith Books November 2010 140 pages 70+ b/w images Bilingual: English/Chinese 20.5 x 31 cm Hardcover ISBN: 978-988-99799-9-7 Kirsteen Zimmern No one represents diversity better than Eurasians—those individuals with a mix of Caucasian and Asian heritage. Once a source of shame, the Eurasian face has become the face that sells. It is…

  • Poetry: Three Treasures by Hannah Lowe Freeword: a global meeting place for literature, argument and free thinking 2012-06-12 Hannah Lowe A panelist at ‘2 Nations’, our recent event exploring national identity, Hannah Lowe is a poet of Chinese, Jamaican and English heritage. In this poem she performed for the audience that night, she explores how…

  • Racing Romance: Love, Power, and Desire Among Asian American/ White Couples Rutgers University Press June 2009 208 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4533-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4532-5 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-4852-4 Kumiko Nemoto, Associate Professor of Sociology Western Kentucky University Despite being far from the norm, interracial relationships are more popular than ever. Racing Romance…

  • Poet to discuss biracialism during UHV/ABR Fall Reading Series University of Houston-Victoria Newswire Victoria, Texas 2012-09-20 Born to a Chinese mother and a Norwegian father, award-winning author Paisley Rekdal’s mixed heritage often influences her poetry and essay writing. She will share her insights about biracialism on Sept. 27 as the second speaker in the University…

  • “Intimate” is a hybrid memoir and “photo album” that blends personal essay, historical documentary, and poetry to examine the tense relationship between self, society, and familial legacy in contemporary America.

  • Living in Ambiguity with Carl Olsen Mixed Race Radio 2012-09-05, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Carl Olsen Colorado State Univeristy Carl is a regular guest on Mixed Race Radio and self- identifies as Japanese and White. Originally Carl was going to discuss his experience being marked as white on a traffic…

  • “In Michigan, most people identify me as Asian, but here in California, I’m a white guy,” Mark-Griffin said… Chelsea Hawkins, “Mixed But Not Divided: Multi-ethnic populations redefine racial lines,” City on a Hill Press: A Student-Run Newspaper (University of California, Santa Cruz), October 20, 2011. http://www.cityonahillpress.com/2011/10/20/mixed-but-not-divided/

  • Romancing the Raj: Interracial Relations in Anglo-Indian Romance Novels History of Intellectual Culture Volume 4, Number 1 (2004) ISSN 1492-7810 Hsu-Ming Teo, Senior Lecturer and Head of Modern History Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia This article examines Anglo-Indian romance novels written by British women during the period of the Raj. It argues that these love stories…