Category: Asian Diaspora

  • San Francisco State Journalism Professor Yumi Wilson’s Multicultural Heritage Helps Connect People Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2011-08-11 Lydia Lum San Francisco State Journalism Professor Yumi Wilson’s Multicultural Heritage Helps Connect People Yumi Wilson teaches news writing, opinion and literary journalism at San Francisco State University where she’s an associate professor of journalism. Formerly a…

  • Racial attitudes and the Anglo‐Indians perceptions of a community before and after independence South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Volume 6, Issue 2 (1983) pages 34-45 DOI: 10.1080/00856408308723045 Coralie Younger University of Sydney The question of racial attitudes between the rulers and the ruled, and whites and non-whites has evoked attention from numerous authors.…

  • Creating Frames and Crossing Borders: An Autobiographical Exploration of Race and Identity University of New Brunswick July 1998 131+ pages Diane Ho-Fatt This study is an exploration of the cultural constructions of race using theoretical perspectives of postmodernism through the methodology of autobiography. I explore the constructions of race and identity in my own life…

  • …Half-caste woman, what are your slanting eyes Waiting and hoping to see? Scanning the far horizon Wondering what the end will be.

  • Although anti-miscegenation laws generally have been analyzed as racial legislation, they also can tell us a great deal about intimacy. These provisions have certainly been used to define and entrench racial difference, but they are also a means to set the boundaries of sexual decency and marital propriety. Here, I will use the comparative experience…

  • Miscegenation’s ‘dusky human consequences’ Postcolonial Studies Volume 5, Issue 3, 2002 pages 297-307 DOI: 10.1080/1368879022000032801 Jacqueline Lo, Professor and Director of the ANU Centre for European Studies Austrailian National University Race is defined not by its purity but rather by the impurity conferred upon it by a system of domination. Bastard and mixed-blood are the…

  • Tune Your Engine – What is a New Zealander? Afternoons with Jim Mora Radio New Zealand National 2011-08-02, 03:10Z (15:10 NZT) Jim Mora, Presenter Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar in the Department of Sociology National University of Singapore Zarine Rocha is a research Scholar in the Department of Sociology at the National University of Singapore.…

  • Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy Farrar, Straus and Giroux BYR Paper (an imprint of Macmillan) September 2008 128 pages 7 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches Grade Range: 5 and up, Age Range: 10 and up ISBN: 978-0-374-40023-1, ISBN10: 0-374-40023-7 Andrea Warren An unforgettable true story of an orphan…

  • Into the Arms of America: The Korean Roots of International Adoption The University of Chicago August 2008 248 pages Publication Number: AAT 3322621 ISBN: 9780549742289 Arissa Hyun Jung Oh A Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the division of Social Sciences in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Department of History This dissertation…

  • Domicile and Diaspora: Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home Wiley-Blackwell August 2005 304 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4051-0054-0 Papeback ISBN: 978-1-4051-0055-7 E-book ISBN: 978-1-4051-4130-7 Alison Blunt, Professor of Geography Queen Mary, University of London Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian…