Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Branding Blasians: Mixed Race Black/Asian Americans in the Celebrity Industrial Complex University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign May 2012 235 pages Myra Washington, Assistant Professor of Communication & Journalism University of New Mexico Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Communications in the Graduate College of the University…

  • The Meaning of White: Race, Class, and the ‘Domiciled Community’ in British India 1858-1930 Oxford University Press January 2012 288 pages Hardback ISBN13: 9780199697700; ISBN10: 0199697701 Satoshi Mizutani From 1858 to 1930 the concept of whiteness in British India was complex and contradictory. Under the Raj, the spread of racial ideologies was pervasive, but whiteness…

  • Anglo-Indian Nostalgia: Longing for India as Homeland Rhizomes Postgraduate Conference Rhizomes: Re-visioning Boundaries Conference The School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 2006-02-24 through 2006-02-25 Alzena D’Costa Curtin University of Technology This paper argues that the ‘nostalgia’ that the Anglo-Indian community exhibits in the telling of its (hi)stories can…

  • “You are an Anglo-Indian?” Eurasians and Hybridity and Cosmopolitanism in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children The Journal of Commonwealth Literature Volume 38, Number 2 (April 2003) pages 125-145 DOI: 10.1177/00219894030382008 Loretta Mijares The term “Anglo-Indian”, emerging as early as 1806, originally referred to the British in India. In India today, however, the term is universally understood…

  • Partly Colored: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South (review) Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 15, Number 2, June 2012 pages 225-227 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2012.0017 Jennifer Ho, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill In her acknowledgements, Leslie Bow admits that she began her research project in…

  • Army to appoint first mixed-race officers Korea Herald 2012-06-11 Yonhap News The South Korean Army said Monday that two of its cadets with multicultural backgrounds are soon to become non-commissioned officers, the first such cases since the Army’s foundation. Cadet officers Bae Jun-hyeong, 22, and Han Ki-yeop, 21, will undergo a 12-week training course next…

  • “Out of an obscure place”: Japanese War Brides and Cultural Pluralism in the 1950s differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies Volume 10, Number 3 (1998) pages 47-81 Caroline Chung Simpson, Associate Professor of English University of Washington In the spring of 1954, the American philosopher Horace Kallen was invited to deliver a series of…

  • Portland Chapter Member: Dmae Roberts Asian American Journalists Association 2012-05-28 Doris Truong Dmae Roberts is a two-time Peabody Award-winning radio artist/writer whose work airs regularly on NPR. Her work is often autobiographical and cross-cultural and is informed by her biracial identity. Her Peabody award-winning documentary, “Mei Mei: A Daughter’s Song,” is a harrowing account of…

  • Reframing Transracial Adoption: Adopted Koreans, White Parents, and the Politics of Kinship Temple University Press May 2012 230 pages 6 x 9 Paper ISBN: 978-1-43990-184-7 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-43990-183-0 eBook ISBN: 978-1-43990-185-4 Kristi Brian, Lecturer in Women’s and Gender Studies and Anthropology and Director of Diversity Education and Training College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina Until…

  • This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature Temple University Press November 2010 216 pages 5.5 x 8.5 1 halftone paper ISBN: 978-1-43990-217-2 cloth ISBN: 978-1-43990-216-5 eBook ISBN: 978-1-43990-218-9 Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies (founder of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN).) San Francisco State…