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  • Association for Asian American Studies 2012 Annual Conference

    Association for Asian American Studies 2012 Annual Conference Capitol Hilton Hotel 1001 16th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 2012-04-11 through 2012-04-14 Selected Sessions from Tentative Schedule Thursday, April 12: 13:15-14:45 (South American A) Exposing Truths: Re-Centering Filipina/o American Subjectivities Chair: Dawn Bohulano Mabalon, San Francisco State University “Passing It On: Mixed Filipina/o American PEP Teachers Facilitating…

  • For Asian-American Couples, a Tie That Binds

    For Asian-American Couples, a Tie That Binds The New York Times 2012-03-30 Rachel L. Swarns WHEN she was a philosophy student at Harvard College eight years ago, Liane Young never thought twice about all the interracial couples who flitted across campus, arm and arm, hand in hand. Most of her Asian friends had white boyfriends…

  • Half and Half

    Half and Half The Cornell Daily Sun Ithaca, New York 2012-03-28 Rebecca Lee Just about the only thing I am looking forward to about graduation is finally being able to meet all of my best friends’ parents.  In high school, we knew our friends’ parents almost as well as our own, calling them by their…

  • So… What are You, Anyway

    So… What are You, Anyway 2012 Conference on Multiracial Identity: Exploring Our Roots Hosted by Harvard Half-Asian People’s Association Harvard University 2012-04-06 through 2012-04-07 Welcome to the fourth annual conference on multiracial identity and politics, hosted by the Harvard College Half-Asian People’s Association on April 6 – April 7, 2012. Join us this year in…

  • Sui Sin Far deconstructs Orientalism by dramatizing the destructive ways in which North American culture defines the Chinese as inhuman “Other” in order to prevent interracial understanding and maintain profitable power structures.

    A focus on Sui Sin Far’s depiction of Eurasian characters and on the subject of interracial marriage illustrates her multifaceted understanding of the crisis in US race relations. Through the treatment of these subjects, she enacts a revolutionary revisioning of race differences. The stories found in Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings, including “Pat and…

  • Hybrid Veggies & Mixed Kids: Ecocriticism and Race in Ruth Ozeki’s Pastoral Heartlands

    Hybrid Veggies & Mixed Kids: Ecocriticism and Race in Ruth Ozeki’s Pastoral Heartlands Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 2 (2011) pages 22-29 Melissa Eriko Poulsen Literature Department University of California, Santa Cruz This paper explores the troping of racial categories and mixed race bodies in Ruth Ozeki’s All Over Creation (2003) and My…

  • Teaching Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far: Multiple Approaches

    Teaching Edith Eaton/Sui Sin Far: Multiple Approaches Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 1 (2010) pages 70-78 Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies San Francisco State University This essay compares pedagogical approaches to teaching the literature of Edith Eaton in two distinct contexts: a course on Asian American Literature and a…

  • 2010 Census Shows Asians are Fastest-Growing Race Group

    2010 Census Shows Asians are Fastest-Growing Race Group United States Census Bureau 2012-03-21 The U.S. Census Bureau today released a 2010 Census brief, The Asian Population: 2010 [PDF], that shows the Asian population grew faster than any other race group over the last decade. The population that identified as Asian, either alone or in combination…

  • Japanese-Canadian Identity Issues: One Big Hapa Family Screening with Jeff Chiba Stearns

    Japanese-Canadian Identity Issues: One Big Hapa Family Screening with Jeff Chiba Stearns University of Toronto, St. George Hart House 2012-03-21, 18:30-20:30 EDT (Local Time) According to recent statistics, the rate of mixed marriages among Japanese-Canadians is at 70% with intermarriage at 95%. Why? Jeff Chiba Stearns attempts to address this phenomena and more with his…

  • [Daniel Fiedler] Segregating children is wrong

    [Daniel Fiedler] Segregating children is wrong The Korea Herald 2012-03-13 Daniel Fiedler, Professor of Law Wonkwang University This year under the guidance of the Seoul Office of Education a new elementary school and a new high school were opened in the Seoul area. While generally the opening of new schools would not be cause for…