Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Multiplicity within Singularity: Racial Categorization and Recognizing “Mixed Race” in Singapore Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs Volume 30, Number 3 (2011) pages 95-131 ISSN: 1868-4882 (online), ISSN: 1868-1034 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar Department of Sociology National University of Singapore “Race” and racial categories play a significant role in everyday life and state organization…

  • 28. Hapa Issues: Asian Americans of Mixed Racial Descent Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts Spring 2010 Growing numbers of inter-racial marriages and the products of these marriages—children of mixed racial descent—have contributed to the increasing diversity of America in the 21st century. Reflecting this heterogeneity, the 2000 Census allowed people to claim more than one background…

  • ASAM 187. Asian Pacific American Mixed Race Issues Pomona College, Claremont, California Spring 2008 Course will explore the lives of racially and ethnically mixed people, focusing on Asian Pacific Americans. As intermarriage rates increase for all groups, the experiences of multiracial people reflect in distinctive ways the cultural and identity choices that individuals and communities…

  • Anglo-Indian legacy slowly disappears in remote forest The Brunei Times 2011-12-20 Ammu Kannampilly Mccluskieganj, India As India inched towards independence, hundreds of mixed-race Anglo-Indians feared for their future and retreated to a self-styled homeland in a thickly forested part of the country. Ernest McCluskie, an Indian of Scottish descent established McCluskieganj in what is now…

  • Profile: Sheena Gardner Our People Mississippi State University 2012-01-02 With a Japanese mother and an African-American father, Gardner has lived in Japan and Mississippi, experiencing a world of two cultures. Her dark skin complemented by her long, thick and curly hair distinguishes her from most other people almost everywhere she goes. Her background of growing…

  • Drag our Leaf Icon above to your taskbar to bookmark TGAM in Internet Explorer 9. Show me how Please don’t show me this again Remind me later Multicultural ‘obsession’ drives new Parliamentary Poet Laureate The Globe and Mail Toronto, Canada 2011-12-21 Jane Taber, Senior Political Writer Fred Wah is a little more familiar with the…

  • The Anglo-Indian Community American Journal of Sociology Volume 40, Number 2 (September, 1934) pages 165-179 Elmer L. Hedin Halcyon, California Of the several half-caste croups in Asia, the largest and most self-conscious is the Anglo-Indian Community. It numbers perhaps two hundred thousand persons who maintain themselves precariously on the outskirts of British-Indian officialdom, employed for…

  • Student reflection on the Luther Lecture Impetus Luther College at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada Fall 2011 Jenna Tickell Senator Lillian Eva Dyck was the 36th Annual Luther Lecturer.  Senator Dyck presented her personal story in relation to the issues of racism and sexism in Canada.  She began with power-point statistics and ended with…

  • Not keeping up appearances? Mixed race Asian Americans and the use of racial language University of Utah December 2009 76 pages Paul Charles Humbert-Fisk A thesis submitted to the faculty of The University of Utah in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science There has been a movement to proclaim…

  • Celtic Tiger, Hidden Dragon: exploring identity among second generation Chinese in Ireland The Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation Review Volume 2, Issue 1 (Summer 2007) pages 48-69 Nicola Yau, Independent Researcher Through qualitative interviews, participant observation and an asynchronous group discussion on an Internet forum for second generation Chinese, this article explores identity among…