Category: Asian Diaspora

  • I Define My Own Identity: Pacific Articulations of ‘Race’ and ‘Culture’on the Internet Ethnicities Vol. 3, No. 4 pp. 465-490 (2003) DOI: 10.1177/1468796803003004002 Marianne I. Franklin University of Amsterdam Most of the participants in the internet discussion forums, the Kava Bowl and the Kamehameha Roundtable, herald from the South Pacific islands of Tonga and Samoa.…

  • In “Pure Beauty,” Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain tackles this question by studying a cultural institution: Japanese American community beauty pageants in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Honolulu. King-O’Riain employs rich ethnographic fieldwork to discover how these pageants seek to maintain racial and ethnic purity amid shifting notions of cultural identity.

  • History, Trauma, and the Discursive Construction of “Race” in John Dominis Holt’s Waimea Summer Cultural Critique Number 47, Winter 2001 pages 167-214 DOI: 10.1353/cul.2001.0026 Susan Y. Najita, Associate Professor of English University of Michigan In contemporary discussions about the literature of Hawai’i and its decolonization, a central problematic resulting from on-going Euro-American imperialism is the…

  • From exclusion and alienation to a ‘multi-racial community’: The image of the métis in New Caledonian literature International Journal of Francophone Studies ISSN: 13682679 Volume 8 Issue 3 December 2005 DOI: 10.1386/ijfs.8.3.305/1 Peter Brown  In her 2005 New Year’s greetings, Marie-Noëlle Thémereau, the President of the New Caledonian government, expressed her confidence in the future…

  • Mixed-Race Identity Politics in Nella Larsen and Winnifred Eaton (Onoto Watanna) Ohio University English (Arts and Sciences) Department November 2001 217 pages Advisor: David Dean McWilliams Sachi Nakachi A dissertation presented to the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences of Ohio University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of…

  • Mixed Race Literature Stanford University Press 2002 256 pages 8 illustrations Cloth Edition: ISBN-10: 0804736391; ISBN-13: 9780804736398 Paperback Edition ISBN-10: 0804736405; ISBN-13: 9780804736404 Edited by Jonathan Brennan, Professor of English Mission College, Santa Clara, California This collection presents the first scholarly attempt to map the rapidly emerging field of mixed-race literature, defined as texts written…

  • What Are You? The Changing Face of America with Kip Fulbeck National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) 2010 Annual Conference Dates: 2010-02-24 through 2010-02-26 Moscone Convention Center West San Francisco, California, USA Adapt, Survive, Thrive: Unleashing the Superpowers Within Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Performative Studies, Video University of California, Santa Barbara Friday, 2010-02-26 13:30 –…

  • In the summer of 1909, the gruesome murder of nineteen-year-old Elsie Sigel sent shock waves through New York City and the nation at large. The young woman’s strangled corpse was discovered inside a trunk in the midtown Manhattan apartment of her reputed former Sunday school student and lover, a Chinese man named Leon Ling.

  • With an entire section devoted to the Asian diaspora, The Sum of Our Parts suggests that questions of multiracial and multiethnic identity are surfacing around the globe. This timely and provocative collection articulates them for social scientists and students.

  • Raising Eurasia: Race, Class, and Age in French and British Colonies Comparative Studies in Society and History Volume 51, Issue 2 (April 2009) pages 314-343 DOI: 10.1017/S0010417509000140 David M. Pomfret, Associate Professor The University of Hong Kong Sexual relationships between European men and indigenous women produced racially mixed offspring in all of Europe’s empires. Recent…