Category: Asian Diaspora

  • An Interview with UW’s Lynet Uttal: Making the Asian American experience visible through learning Asian Wisconzine Volume 7, Number 9 (September 2011) Heidi M. Pascual Part 1 of 2 It was “quite an accident of fate” that Lynet Uttal became the director of the  University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Asian American Studies Program. Although Uttal has been…

  • Laura Kina, visual artist and scholar of Asian-American and Mixed-Race Studies APA Compass KBOO FM, Community Radio Portland, Oregon 2011-09-02 Andrew Yeh, Host Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University APA Compass’ Andrew Yeh speaks with artist Laura Kina. Download to the interview (00:15:50) here.

  • Pure mixed blood: The multiple identities of Amerasians in South Korea Indiana University February 2007 256 pages Publication Number: AAT 3253643 Sue-Je Lee Gage, Assistant Professor of Anthropology Ithaca University Submitted to the faculty of the University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of …

  • Shades of Fraternity: Creolization and the Making of Citizenship in French India, 1790–1792 French Historical Studies Volume 31, Number 4 (2008) pages 581-607 DOI: 10.1215/00161071-2008-007 Adrian Carton Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney, Australia On October 16, 1790, a group of topas men wrote a petition to the Colonial Assembly at Pondichéry, protesting…

  • Historicizing Hybridity and the Politics of Location: Three Early Colonial Indian Narratives Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (2007) pages 143-155 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082996 Adrian Carton Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney, Australia From White Mughals to Vikram Seth, novels, historical blockbusters and more nuanced anthropological and postcolonial critiques have exposed the…

  • The Social Adjustment of Chinese Immigrants in Liverpool The Sociological Review Volume 3, Issue 1 (July 1955) pages 65-75 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1955.tb01045.x Maurice Broody Some of the most urgent social problems of a cosmopolitan seaport city like Liverpool are problems of adjustment between ethnic minorities and the indigenous society into which they have migrated. This adjustment…

  • Between 1820 and 1923, European and American travelogue writers in the Southeast Asian British Colonies looked down upon Europeans participating in miscegenation with local women. They felt that it was a “barbaric” institution, and if Europeans participated in miscegenation, they were destroying the racial hierarchy that had been established during colonialism.

  • AAS 310: Constructing and Negotiating Multiracial Identity University of Texas, Austin Center for Asian American Studies Fall 2008 This course serves as an introduction to the experiences of biracial and multiracial people, specifically with a focus on “mixed”/hapa Asian American, African American and Latino people in the U.S., concentrating on theories of race, racial identity…

  • The presence of Eurasian images in fashion representations and their absence from finance representations draw attention to the historical origins, cultural trajectories and ambivalence of meaning associated with ‘raced’ and sexed representations. Although the inclusion of Asian and Eurasian women may be intended to offset their previous absence and secure a wider multicultural appeal, they…

  • Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World Berg Publishers (an imprint of Macmillan) October 2001 272 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-85973-531-2, ISBN10: 1-85973-531-2 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-85973-632-6, ISBN10: 1-85973-632-7 Lionel Caplan, Emeritus Professor and Professorial Research Associate School of Oriental and African Studies University of London Among the legacies of…