Category: Asian Diaspora

  • LOS ANGELES, CA – The fourth Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, “Explorations in Trans (gender, gressions, migrations, racial) Fifty Years After Loving v. Virginia,” will bring together academics, activists, and artists from across the US and abroad to explore the latest developments in critical mixed race studies. The Conference will be held at The University…

  • The Hapa Japan Festival celebrates mixed-race and mixed roots Japanese people and culture. Come join us at the Japanese American National Museum and the USC campus for film screenings documenting the story of mixed race Japanese people, rich conversations with Hapa cultural icons, jam sessions, and a gastoronomic experience to remember.

  • ‘To be black doesn’t have to mean anything more than what I already am’ The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-02-06 Sofiya Ballin, Staff Writer Sonia Galiber, Director of Operations at Urban Creators Michael Bryant For Black History Month, we’re exploring history and identity through the lens of joy. Black joy is the ability to love and celebrate…

  • Reel Representation: Amma Asante’s films adeptly portray multiracial identity The Daily Bruin Los Angeles, California 2017-02-09 Olivia Mazzucato Diversity in film and television came into the spotlight in 2016 with #OscarsSoWhite. A USC study in 2016 found only about a quarter of speaking characters belonged to non-white racial/ethnic groups. In “Reel Representation,” columnist Olivia Mazzucato…

  • Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland Rutgers University Press 2017-01-24 224 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-7637-4 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-7636-7 Web PDF ISBN: 978-0-8135-7639-8 ePub ISBN: 978-0-8135-7638-1 Jane H. Yamashiro, Visiting Scholar Asian American Studies Center University of California, Los Angeles There is a rich body of literature on the experience of…

  • “(Un)Making Race and Ethnicity: A Reader,” edited by Michael O. Emerson, Jenifer L. Bratter, and Sergio Chávez, helps instructors and students connect with primary texts in ways that are informative and interesting, leading to engaging discussions and interactions.

  • The white supremacy of being asked where I’m from PBS NewsHour 2017-01-27 What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “white supremacy”? For actor comedian Peter Kim, it’s facing the commonplace cultural assumption that white is the default race in America ANTONIO MORA: Finally tonight, a look at the subtle ways our society often…

  • Chan, poetry by Hannah Lowe The Asian Review of Books 2017-01-08 Theophilus Kwek From the gangplank of a pre-war steamship to the present, via the jazz underground of 1960s London, Hannah Lowe’s rewarding second collection revels in the company of an unlikely crew of voices and personalities. Chan takes its name from the poet’s father…

  • Mixed in the Six pop-up events created to support multiracial Torontonians The Toronto Star 2017-01-03 Erin Kobayashi Mixed in the Six, is a pop-up event aimed at building a community for multi-racial Torontonians. (Cole Burtan/Toronto Star) An event for the off-spring of mixed-race families hits a chord as the difficult to ‘identify’ find their people.…

  • The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race [Review] Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Volume 3, Issue 1, (January 2017) pages 145-146 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216676788 Emily Walton, Assistant Professor of Sociology Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Anthony Christian Ocampo, The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race. Stanford,…