Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Re-SEAing SouthEast Asian American Studies. Memories & Visions: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. San Francisco State University 2011-03-10 through 2011-03-11 The third tri-annual interdisciplinary Southeast Asians in the Diaspora conference will take place at San Francisco State University. The San Francisco Bay Area is home to sizable populations of Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Lao, Malaysian,…

  • American Identities: California Short Stories of Multiple Ancestries Xlibris Press 2008 263 Pages ISBN: 1-4363-7705-6 (Trade Paperback 6×9) ISBN13: 978-1-4363-7705-8 (Trade Paperback 6×9) Eliud Martínez, Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature University of California, Riverside In many parts of the country, especially in California, when one passes by a school or strolls across…

  • Q&A With Researchers: Associate Professor Manying Ip asia:nz online Asia New Zealand Foundation Associate Professor Manying Ip Asia:NZ Trustee; Associate Professor of Chinese, School of Asian Studies, University of Auckland Manying Ip came to New Zealand in 1974 from Hong Kong where her family lived for five generations. With her strong classical Chinese education at…

  • A Letter to My Father: Growing up Filipina and American University of Oklahoma Press 2008 184 pages 5.5″ x 8.5″ x 0″ 8 b&w illustrations, 2 maps Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8061-3909-8 Helen Madamba Mossman Going from the jungles of the wartime Philippines to the schoolyards of northwestern Oklahoma is no easy transition. For one twelve-year-old girl,…

  • Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities (Book Review) Sites: a journal of social anthropology and cultural studies University of Otago, New Zealand Volume 5, Number 2 (2008) pages 180-182 Kate Bagnall Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities, Manying Ip, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 2008, 255pp. ISBN 978-1-86940-399-7 Manying Ip makes it clear from the outset that Being Māori-Chinese: Mixed Identities…

  • “We Have Always Been:” Mixed Race Experiences in the USA and French Polynesian (Tahitian) Contexts: 2010 Exploration Seminar in Tahiti University of Washington Exploration Seminars Dates of Instruction: 2010-08-22 through 2010-09-10 Program Director: Steve Woodard and Alejandro Espania (Minority Affairs) Ia Ora Na, friend!  Please know that this three (3) week seminar will take place in…

  • “El Destierro de los Chinos”: Popular Perspectives of Chinese-Mexican Interracial Marriage as Reflected in Poetry, Cartoon, Comedy, and Corridos American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-10 11:20 PST (Local Time) San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina Torrey 3 (Marriott) San Diego, California Robert Chao Romero, Assistant Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies University of California,…

  • Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1910s-1960s 2009 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2009-06-11 through 2009-06-14 Julia María Schiavone Camacho, Assistant Professor of History University of Texa, El Paso On May 12, 1960, the Mexican Chinese community leader in Macau, Ramón Lay…

  • Ethnic Identity Among Mixed-Heritage People In Hawaii Symbolic Interaction Volume 14, Number 3 (Fall 1991) Pages 261–277 DOI 10.1525/si.1991.14.3.261 Cookie White Stephan, Emeritus Professor of Sociology New Mexico State University In this study, intensive interviews were used to explore the identity of a sample of mixed-heritage Hawaiian college students from a variety of ethnic groups. The…

  • Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1930s–1960s Pacific Historical Review Volume 78, Number 4 (November 2009) pages 545–577 DOI 10.1525/phr.2009.78.4.545 Julia María Schiavone Camacho, Assistant Professor of History University of Texa, El Paso This article follows Mexican Chinese families from Mexico, across the Mexican-U.S. border, to China, and…