Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Barack Obama in Hawai’i and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President ABC-CLIO Praeger September 2011 276 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-313-38533-9 Electronic ISBN: 978-0-313-38534-6 Dinesh Sharma, Senior Fellow Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Research St. Francis College, New York Distinguishing itself from the mass of political biographies of Barack Obama,…

  • Clench: What are You Fighting For? Commissioned By: Runnymede Trust-UK’s Leading Race Equality Think Tank 2011 Written and directed by Riffat Ahmed Produced by Shane Davey, Courtney Edwards, Riffat Ahmed and Fabien Soazandry of Davey Inc Running Time: 00:15:39 Starring: Hussina Raja as Ash With: Kevin Morris, Jeff Caffrey, Afreen Mhar, Allan Hopwood, and Danny Randall…

  • Mixed But Not Divided: Multi-ethnic populations redefine racial lines City on a Hill Press: A Student-Run Newspaper University of California, Santa Cruz 2011-10-20 Chelsea Hawkins When I was six or seven years old, I would spend my Saturday afternoons at the local Korean Baptist Church. A pink textbook opened in front of me, oversized hangul…

  • Race and Ethnicity in Society: The Changing Landscape, 3rd Edition Cengage Learning 2012 480 pages ISBN-10: 1111519536; ISBN-13: 9781111519537 Edited by Elizabeth Higginbotham, Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Criminology University of Delaware Margaret L. Andersen, Edward F. and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Sociology University of Delaware This engaging reader is organized in four…

  • Midnight’s Orphans: Anglo-Indians in Post/Colonial Literature Peter Lang 2006 265 pages Weight: 0.370 kg, 0.816 lbs Paperback ISBN: 978-3-03910-848-0 Series: Studies in Asia-Pacific “Mixed Race” Glenn D’Cruz, Senior Lecturer School of Communication and Creative Arts Deakin University, Australia Anglo-Indians are the human legacy of European colonialism. These descendants of European men and Indian women regularly…

  • The Marginalization of Afro-Asians in East Asia: Globalization and the Creation of Subculture and Hybrid Identity Global Tides: Pepperdine Journal of International Studies Volume 5 (2011) 15 pages Pepperdine University, Malibu, California Sierra Reicheneker This article explores the topic of children born of biracial couplings in East Asia. The offspring of such unique unions face…

  • Institutional Barriers, Marginality, and Adaptation Among the American-Japanese Mixed Bloods in Japan The Journal of Asian Studies Volume 42, Number 3 (1983) pages 519-544 DOI: 10.2307/2055516 William R. Burkhardt, Assistant Professor of Sociology Ohio University Guided by the perspective of marginality theory, the author examines the problems that have faced the mixed-blood progeny of Japanese…

  • Mixed Britannia – marrying an alien BBC Two 2011-10-02 George Alagiah, Host Nearly 100 years ago, Chinese seaman Stanley Ah Foo arrived in Liverpool to start a new life. He soon fell in love—but laws at the time meant that his English bride, Emily, was only able to marry if she gave up her British…

  • The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood Hachette Book Group 2001 368 pages 5-1/2″ x 8-1/4″ Paperback ISBN:9780316284615 Kien Nguyen A story of hope, a story of survival, and an incredible journey of escape, ‘The Unwanted’ is the only memoir by an Amerasian who stayed behind in Vietnam after the fall of Saigon and who is…

  • The Mystery of Capital: Eurasian Entrepreneurs’ Socio-Cultural Strategies for Commercial Success in Early 20th-Century Hong Kong Asian Studies Review Volume 34, Issue 4, 2010 pages 467-487 DOI: 10.1080/10357823.2010.527919 Victor Zheng The University of Hong Kong Siu-Lun Wong The University of Hong Kong Unlike economic capital, which is visible and easy to calculate, social capital is…