Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Seven Hours To Burn Women Make Movies USA/Canada, 1999 9 minutes Color/BW, VHS/16mm Order No. W01699 Shanti Thakur “A visually expressive personal documentary that explores a family’s history. Filmmaker Thakur mixes richly abstract filmmaking with disturbing archival war footage to narrate the story of her Danish mother’s and Indian father’s experiences. Her mother survives Nazi-occupied…

  • Multiracial: Border Crosser: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu navigates nations, cultures and academia Nichi Bei: A mixed plate of Japanses American News & Culture 2010-05-20 Akemi Johnson Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu is looking again toward Japan. A psychotherapist, writer and academic, Murphy-Shigematsu has lived in Palo Alto, Calif. the past eight years, teaching at Stanford University and running an independent…

  • The Racial Identification of Biracial Children with One Asian Parent: Evidence from the 1990 Census No. 96-370 Population Studies Center Research Report Series Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan August 1996 Yu Xie, Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor of Sociology University of Michigan Kimberly A. Goyette, Associate Professor of Sociology Temple University…

  • Mixed-Race Celebrities on Race, in their Own Words Time Magazine: Healthland 2011-02-15 Meredith Melnick, Reporter and Producer Who Are You? If biracial and multiracial celebrities have anything in common, it is that they are often asked to explain themselves. That may sound familiar to any person of mixed ancestry for whom questions like “What are…

  • Asian American Studies: Building Academic Bridges – Nitasha Sharma The Department of African American Studies Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois October 2010 Ronald Roach NITASHA TAMAR SHARMA Title: Assistant Professor of African-American and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University Education: Ph.D., Anthropology, University of alifornia at Santa Barbara; M.A., Anthropology, University of California at Santa Barbara; B.A.,…

  • ‘Land of our Mothers’: Home, Identity, and Nationality for Anglo-Indians in British India, 1919–1947 History Workshop Journal Volume 54, Issue 1 pages 49-72 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/54.1.49 Alison Blunt, Professor of Geography Queen Mary, University of London This paper explores the symbolic and material intersections of home, identity and nationality for Anglo-Indians (previously known as ‘Eurasians’) in…

  • Anglo-Indians in Hollywood, Bollywood and Arthouse Cinema Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (February 2007) pages 55-68 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082939 Glenn D’Cruz, Senior Lecturer of Performance Studies Deakin University, Australia Apart from a few disparaging remarks about offensive stereotypes by Anglo-Indian writers and politicians such as Gloria Jean Moore, Frank Anthony and Gillian Hart,…

  • The Other Hafu of Japan Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanses Daily News 2011-01-14 Brett Fujioka, Rafu Intern A new documentary examines the lives of racially mixed individuals as they explore their own identities. Is a ship the same if you take it apart piece by piece and replace its frame? No simple answer exists, as…

  • The Hapa Project: How multiracial identity crosses oceans UH Today University of Hawai`i Spring 2007 Alana Folen and Tina Ng Hawai`i—often overlooked as nothing more than a scenic paradise—recently started to live up to its “melting pot” reputation when a U.S. senator representing Illinois formally announced his presidential candidacy. With personal ties to Hawai`i, Sen.…

  • Crossing borders, erasing boundaries: Interethnic marriages in Tucson, 1854-1930 University of Arizona 392 pages Publication Number: AAT 3398995 ISBN: 9781109735864 Salvador Acosta A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Department of History In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate College The University of Arizona This…