Category: Asian Diaspora

  • ‘It’s like I’m part of every race’ The Straits Times Malaysia 2010-08-08 Edora Mayangsari Lopez, 18 Eurasian-Malay The psychology student at the Management Development Institute of Singapore has a Eurasian father and a Malay-Javanese mother. Both of them are Singaporeans. She is the younger of two children and has relatives in Europe, Australia, Malaysia and…

  • CRN 47519/47520-Mixed Race Asian Americans University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Fall 2008 Kent Ono, Professor of Asian American Studies, Communication, and Institute of Communications Research Part of Asian American Ethnic Groups (AAS-450) This course provides an introduction to the study of mixed race Asian Americans. From discussions of famous mixed race people, such as Tiger Woods,…

  • Interrogating Identity Construction: Bodies versus Community in Cynthia Kadohata’s In the Heart of the Valley of Love Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 1 (2010) pages 61-69 Nicole Myoshi Rabin, Instructor of Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies Emerson College, Boston. Massachusetts In an interview for the journal MELUS, Hsiu-chuan Lee claims that Cynthia Kadohata…

  • HapaSC: A Place Multiracial Call Home Campus Circle News Los Angeles, California 2010-08-16 Stephanie Forshee Multiracial students at USC [University of Southern California] like Lauren Perez are devoting time to create a place where you can express every part of yourself. HapaSC is an organization of about 30 USC students that raises awareness for “mixed”…

  • La China Poblana and Other Constructions of Asian Latinos/as Clave: Counterdisciplinary Notes on Race, Power & the State A Project of LatCrit Inc. and Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico Summer 2006 22 pages Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown University She…

  • Crossing Race and Nationality: The Racial Formation of Asian Americans 1852-1965 Monthly Review December 2005 Bob Wing Bob Wing was part of the first wave of Asian-American activists in the late 1960s. He was founding editor of the antiwar newspaper, War Times,and of the racial justice magazine, ColorLines, and is one of the national leaders…

  • Mexipino: A History of Multiethnic Identity and the Formation of the Mexican and Filipino Communities of San Diego, 1900-1965 (From T-RACES: a Testbed for the Redlining Archives of California’s Exclusionary Spaces) University of California, Santa Barbara June 2007 488 pages Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation, College…

  • Panel: Exploring the Historical Context for Contemporary Stories of the Mixed Experience Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival Japanese American National Musuem National Center for Democracy, Tateuchi Democracy Forum 2010-06-13, 18:30 to 19:30Z Moderator Frank Buckley, Co-Anchor KTLA Morning News Panelists Kelly F. Jackson, Assistant Professor of Social Work Arizona State University Farzana Nayani, President…

  • Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian Testimony: In Search of the “Place” in Displacement The Global Viet Diaspora 2009 This documentary was produced/directed by Rojelio Vo, Long S. Le, and Aaron Hedge. The documentary is based on the lived-experience of a Vietnamese Afro-Amerasian, Khanh Le. “If the individual black self could not exist before the law, it could, and…

  • Bicultural Identity Formation of Second-Generation Indo-Canadians Canadian Ethnic Studies Volume 40, Number 2, 2008 pages 187-199 E-ISSN: 1913-8253 Print ISSN: 0008-3496 Pavna Sodhi, Ed.D, CCC Abundant Living Counselling Group, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada This article examines the bicultural identity formation and cultural experiences internalized by second-generation Indo-Canadians in their efforts to accommodate the “best of both…