Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Racial Classification and History Routledge 1997-02-01 376 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8153-2602-1 Edited by E. Nathaniel Gates (1955-2006) Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Yeshiva University Explores the concept of “race” The term “race,” which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning.…

  • Chinese Caucasian interracial parenting and ethnic identity University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1988 264 pages Publication Number: AAT 8813254 Jeffrey B. Mar This exploratory study looks at Chinese-Caucasian interracially married parents’ experience of raising their children. The goal is to characterize these parents’ stances toward their children’s ethnic identity. A semi-structured, clinical interview was developed for…

  • Intimate encounters, Racial Frontiers: Stateless GI babies in South Korea and the United States, 1953-1965 University of Minnesota June 2010 239 pages Bongsoo Park A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY This dissertation explores…

  • Mixed-race Koreans urge identity rethink The Korea Herald 2011-12-07 Kirsty Taylor Things have come a long way since the 1970s when mixed-race Koreans here were spat upon and beaten up for being different. The kids of that time, whose fathers were often foreign soldiers who first came here during the Korean War, used to find…

  • Crossing Lines: Praxis in Mixed Race/Space Studies: Proposal Deadline Crossing Lines: Praxis in Mixed Race/Space Studies 2012-03-16 throught 2012-03-17 University of California, Berkeley Co-Sponsored by the UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender and Ethnic Studies Department Call for Proposals – Deadline: 2012-01-15 In traditional Ethnic Studies, mixed race scholarship has often been marginalized, misappropriated,…

  • Some Asians’ college strategy: Don’t check ‘Asian’ The Associated Press 2011-12-04 Jesse Washington, National Writer/Race and Ethnicity Lanya Olmstead was born in Florida to a mother who immigrated from Taiwan and an American father of Norwegian ancestry. Ethnically, she considers herself half Taiwanese and half Norwegian. But when applying to Harvard, Olmstead checked only one…

  • Anglo-Indian Identity, Knowledge, and Power: Western Ballroom Music in Lucknow The Drama Review Volume 48, Number 4 (Winter 2004) Pages 167-182 DOI: 10.1162/1054204042442053 Dr. Bradley Shope, Assistant Professor of Music Texas A&M Universtity, Corpus Christi From the 1920s to the 1940s, Anglo-Indians relished Western popular music. For this marginalized group, this music was a way…

  • Le métissage dans l’œuvre indochinoise de Marguerite Duras McGill University, Montreal 2006 106 pages Elisabeth Desaulniers Mémoire soumis à l’Université McGill en vue de l’obtention du grade de Maître ès arts (MA) en langue et littérature françaises This dissertation focuses on the issue of hybridity in Marguerite Duras’ corpus of Indochinese texts, as well as…

  • “Transnational Crossroads” explores and triangulates for the first time the interactions and contacts among these three cultural groups that were brought together by the expanding American empire from 1867 to 1950.

  • Racial Realities: Social Constructs and the Stuff of Which They Are Made Global Dialogue Volume 12, Number 2 (Summer/Autumn 2010)—Race and Racisms Eric C. Thompson, Associate Professor of Sociology National University of Singapore How can we deny the reality of race? It is a truth so many hold to be self-evident. Travel around the world,…