Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Faking It: Poetics & Hybridity: Critical Writing 1984-1999 NeWest Press Spring 2000 288 pages Paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-896300-07-8 Fred Wah According to Fred Wah, the act of thinking critically is one of exploration and discovery. In Faking It, Wah demonstrates how writing poetry is writing critically. This scrapbook of Wah’s work—collected from fifteen years of…

  • Diamond Grill (10th Anniversary Edition) NeWest Press Fall 2006 208 pages paperback ISBN 13: 978-1-897126-11-0 Fred Wah This story of family and identity, migration and integration, culture and self-discovery is told through family history, memory, and the occasional recipe. Diamond Grill is a rich banquet where Salisbury steak shares a menu with chicken fried rice,…

  • The Other Loving: Uncovering The Federal Government’s Racial Regulation of Marriage New York University Law Review Volume 86, Number 5 (November 2011) pages 1361-1443 Rose Cuison Villazor, Professor of Law University of California, Davis This Article seeks to fill a gap in legal history. The traditional narrative of the history of the American racial regulation…

  • Filipinos in Nueva España: Filipino-Mexican Relations, Mestizaje, and Identity in Colonial and Contemporary Mexico Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 3 (October 2011) pages 389-416 Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Arizona State University This essay examines how the…

  • Racial Alterity in the Mestizo Nation Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 3 (October 2011) pages 331-359 Jason Oliver Chang, Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies University of Connecticut The eviction of Chinese cotton farmers from Mexicali, Baja California serves as a focal point to explore the racial boundaries of dominant…

  • Negotiating Mixed Race: Projection, Nostalgia, and the Rejection of Japanese-Brazilian Biracial Children Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 14, Number 3 (October 2011) pages 361-388 Zelideth María Rivas, Professor of Chinese and Japanese Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Since their arrival in Brazil in 1908, the presence of Japanese immigrants has shaken Brazilian conceptions of race.…

  • How the crowded neighborhoods of New York’s Lower East Side gave rise to cross-racial and cross ethnic bonds before 1930

  • One Big Hapa Family KCTS 9 Television Real NW Seattle, Washington Monday, 2011-11-14, 22:00 PST After a family reunion, Japanese-Canadian filmmaker, Jeff Chiba Stearns embarks on a journey of self-discovery to find out why everyone in his Japanese-Canadian family married interracially after his grandparents’ generation. Using a mix of live action and animation, “One Big…

  • The Stain of White: Liaisons, Memories, and White Men as Relatives Men and Masculinities Volume 9, Number 2 (October 2006) pages 131-151 DOI: 10.1177/1097184X06287764 Janaki Abraham, Assistant Professor Women Studies Jawaharlal Neru University During British colonial rule some matrilineal Thiyya women in North Kerala, India, had liaisons with British men. While the response of the…

  • History and the (Un)making of Identifications in Literary Representations of Anglo-Indians and Goan Catholics University of British Columbia September 2000 465 pages Marian Josephine Gracias A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Department of English) This dissertation examines selected literature…