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  • Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

    “Making the Chinese Mexican” is the first book to examine the Chinese diaspora in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. It presents a fresh perspective on immigration, nationalism, and racism through the experiences of Chinese migrants in the region during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

  • Mixed-race children face new obstacles

    Mixed-race children face new obstacles Korea Joongang Daily 2012-02-16 Yim Seung-hye Abandonment and abuse put them at disadvantage from the start It was around 5 a.m. on the morning of March 20, 2010, when a woman surnamed Park from Bangbae-dong, southern Seoul, heard a baby crying and ran to her door. On her doorstep was…

  • Finding culture in ‘poetic’ structures: The case of a ‘racially-mixed’ Japanese/New Zealander

    Finding culture in ‘poetic’ structures: The case of a ‘racially-mixed’ Japanese/New Zealander Journal of Multicultural Discourses Online Before Print: 2012-01-18 19 pages DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2011.610507 Masataka Yamaguchi, Professor of Japanese Studies University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand In this article, I analyze discourse taken from my interviews with a ‘racially-mixed’ Japanese/New Zealander in which he represents…

  • Navigating Multiple Identities: Race, Gender, Culture, Nationality, and Roles

    Navigating Multiple Identities: Race, Gender, Culture, Nationality, and Roles Oxford University Press March 2012 288 pages Paperback ISBN13: 9780199732074; ISBN10: 0199732078 Edited by Ruthellen Josselson, Professor of Psychology Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California Michele Harway, Faculty Research Specialist Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California Although questionnaires routinely ask people to check boxes indicating if…

  • City of Broken Promises

    The city is Macao, the Portuguese settlement on the China Coast, as it was more than 200 years ago. The promises are those made by Englishmen to marry their Macao mistresses, only to leave them abandoned and their children bastards.

  • Rice Outside the Paddy: The Form and Function of Hybridity in a Thai Novel

    Rice Outside the Paddy: The Form and Function of Hybridity in a Thai Novel Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Volume 11, Number 1 (1997) pages 51-78 Jan R. Weisman This paper examines some of the problematic issues of racial hybridity in contemporary Thailand through an analysis of the fictional portrayal of Thai…

  • “The Girl Isn’t White”: New Racial Dimensions in Octavia Butler’s Survivor

    “The Girl Isn’t White”: New Racial Dimensions in Octavia Butler’s Survivor Extrapolation Volume 47, Number 1 (2006) pages 35-50 DOI: 10.3828/extr.2006.47.1.6 ISSN: 0014-5483 (Print); 2047-7708 (Online) Crystal S. Anderson, Associate Professor of English Department Elon University, Elon, North Carolina Since the publication of her first novel, Octavia Butler’s popularity has increased, making her now a…

  • Black, yellow, (honorary) white or just plain South African?: Chinese South Africans, identity and affirmative action

    Black, yellow, (honorary) white or just plain South African?: Chinese South Africans, identity and affirmative action Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa Number 77 (2011) pages 107-121 DOI: 10.1353/trn.2011.0043 Yoon Jung Park, Senior Researcher in the Centre for Sociological Research Humanities Research Village University of Johannesburg On 18 June 2008, while the country was still…

  • A Matter Of Honour: Being Chinese in South Africa

    The South African-born Chinese community is a tiny one, consisting of 10,000 to 12,000 members in a population of approximately 45 million. Throughout much of the history of this most race-conscious country, the community has been ignored or neglected, and officially classed along with Coloureds (people of mixed race) or with Indians in that particularly…

  • Woman traces her Tanzanian roots in film

    Woman traces her Tanzanian roots in film The Citizen Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2012-02-04 Tyrone Beason Sometimes a journey begins with a song. In the case of Seattle documentary filmmaker Eli Kimaro, it was a transporting version of the classic lullaby Summertime from the African-American opera Porgy and Bess, this one sung by the Benin-born…