Mixed Race Studies

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  • Sui Sin Far / Edith Maude Eaton: A Literary Biography

    This first full-length biography of the first published Asian North American fiction writer portrays both the woman and her times.

  • Biracial/Bicultural Identity in the Writings of Sui Sin Far

    Biracial/Bicultural Identity in the Writings of Sui Sin Far MELUS Volume 26, Number 2 (Summer 2001) pages 159-186 Vanessa Holford Diana, Professor of English Westfield State Unviversity, Westfield, Massachusetts At the turn into the twentieth century, American culture witnessed related literary and political shifts through which marginalized voices gained increased strength despite the severe racism…

  • Stand Back Ladies and Gentlemen! The Wonders of the World! Conformity and Confrontation in Winnifred Eaton’s Freak Show Setting in “The Loves of Sakura Jiro and the Three-Headed Maid”

    Stand Back Ladies and Gentlemen! The Wonders of the World! Conformity and Confrontation in Winnifred Eaton’s Freak Show Setting in “The Loves of Sakura Jiro and the Three-Headed Maid” Winnifred Eaton Project Symposium 2007-03-15 through 2007-03-16 Owens Art Gallery Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada 2007-03-16 Christine Mayor Mount Allison University The freak show…

  • Racing ahead, going nowhere

    Racing ahead, going nowhere Very Fine Commentary 2011-04-17 Yoong Ren Yan, Editor Are we running around in circles with our policies on race? Racism is bad. What more is there to say?” It may not have been the case just 50 years ago in the time of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, but in…

  • Multiple Realities: Reconsidering Multiracialism in Singapore

    Multiple Realities: Reconsidering Multiracialism in Singapore World Scientific Publishing Summer 2012 150 pages ISBN: 978-981-270-604-1; 981-270-604-6 Eugene K. B. Tan, Assistant Professor of Law Singapore Management University, Singapore How has Singapore’s multiracialism policy evolved, and how has it impacted on ethnic relations and nation-building in a secure, yet perpetually vulnerable, Singapore? This important book addresses…

  • Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses

    Census and Identity: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in National Censuses Cambridge University Press January 2002 224 pages Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm Paperback ISBN: 9780521004275 Hardback ISBN: 9780521808231 eBook ISBN: 9780511029325 DOI: 10.2277/0521004276 Edited by: David I. Kertzer, Dupee University Professor of Social Science, Professor of Anthropology & Italian Studies Brown University…

  • Mixing it up: Multiracialism redefines Asian American identity

    Mixing it up: Multiracialism redefines Asian American identity San Francisco Chronicle 2011-02-11 Jeff Yang, Special to SF Gate How the mainstreaming of multiracialism is forcing a more fluid definition of Asian American identity   Like many immigrants, my parents see identity as a bucket. My mother and father had come to America carefully bearing a…

  • Envisioning Chinese Identity and Managing Multiracialism in Singapore

    Envisioning Chinese Identity and Managing Multiracialism in Singapore International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference 2009-10-18 through 2009-10-22 Coex, Seoul, Korea 9 pages Leong Koon Chan, Associate Professor School of Design Studies University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Multiracialism and bilingualism are key concepts for national ideology and policy in the management of…

  • The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940

    An estimated 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting Mexico’s second-largest foreign ethnic community at the time. “The Chinese in Mexico” provides a social history of Chinese immigration to and settlement in Mexico in the context of the global Chinese diaspora of the era.

  • It’s dual-race for 1 in 6 babies of mixed parentage

    It’s dual-race for 1 in 6 babies of mixed parentage The Straits Times Singapore 2012-01-11 Amanda Tan One in six newborn babies of mixed parentage was registered as having a double-barrelled race last year after a new policy kicked in allowing parents to do so. This full-year figure, released for the first time to The…