Category: Asian Diaspora

  • The whole story on being ‘hafu’ CNN International CNN Go 2010-11-29 Daniel Krieger The movie ‘Hafu’ explores the limbo world of people who are half-Japanese and half something else, as they try to find their place in society What does it mean to be half-Japanese in 21st-century Japan? This is what filmmakers Megumi Nishikura and…

  • Will there ever be a rainbow Japan? CNN International CNN Go 2010-12-01 Tracy Slater Government statistics suggest multiculturalism is on the rise, but social organizations for mixed-race Japanese say ‘hafus’ still face challenges Japan, which closed its borders from 1639 to 1854 and later colonized its neighbors, has an uneasy history with foreigners, national identity,…

  • What are you? A qualitative study on multiracial identity development The Wright Institute June 2008 115 pages Publication Number: AAT 3351317 ISBN: 9781109073614 Luana M. Coloma A dissertation submitted to the Wright Institute Graduate School of Psychology, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Psychology The current study explored essential…

  • Chinese Interracial Families Undergraduate Research Journal Indiana University, South Bend 1998 Lin Liu, Honors Freshman Research Seminar Participant In an increasingly multi-cultural America, the Chinese population as well as the number of Chinese interracial families has risen significantly among all other nationalities. Since the 1940’s, the Chinese population has soared. There have been many contributing…

  • The Eurasian in Shanghai The American Journal of Sociology Volume 41, Number 5 (March, 1936) pages 642-648 Herbert Day Lamson Although hybrid offspring tend to form an intermediary group of cultural contact between the native and the alien in societies where they are found, the Eurasian in Shanghai finds himself discriminated against by both parent-stocks.…

  • Multiracial and Adopted Asians Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education Volume 3, Number 2 (Fall 2001) Theme: Interracial and Mixed-racial Relationships and Families C. N. Le, Senior Lecturer Professor University of Massachusetts, Amherst In the 1980s Asian Americans became the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the United States in terms of percentage growth.  As part of…

  • Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging Duke University Press November 2010 320 pages 15 photographs, 4 tables Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4683-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4695-1 Eleana J. Kim, Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Rochester Since the end of the Korean War, an estimated 200,000 children from South Korea have been adopted into…

  • Beyond Color-blind Universalism: Asians in a “Postracial America” Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 13, Number 3 (October 2010) pages 327-342 E-ISSN: 1096-8598; Print ISSN: 1097-2129 Linda Trinh Võ, Associate Professor Department of Asian American Studies School of Humanities University of California, Irvine Beyond the symbolism of President Barack Hussein Obama’s election is the unseen…

  • Ethnic identity of biracial individuals with one Asian parent California State University, Long Beach 2006 66 pages Publication Number: AAT 1437924 ISBN: 9780542893049 Christina A. Nguyen A Thesis Presented to the Department of Social Work, California State University, Long Beach In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Social Work The purpose…

  • Addressing Issues of Biracial Asian Americans Reflections on Shattered Windows: Promises and Prospects for Asian American Studies Washington State University Press 1988 Chapter 15, pages 111-116 Edited by: G. Y. Okihiro, S. Hune, A. A. Hansen, and J. M. Liu Stephen L. Murphy-Shigematsu Revising the Asian American Studies curriculum One of the more dramatic changes…