Category: Asian Diaspora

  • BETWEEN us, my husband and I have got Spanish, Filipino, Chinese, Slovakian, English, Scottish and Irish heritage. In appearance, he’s Asian and I’m caucasian. This is 2016 and so you wouldn’t even think that was even worth mentioning. But the fact is, reasonably often this affects the way other people treat us.

  • Uganda is worried about the number of Chinese men marrying their women Quartz Africa 2016-12-09 Lily Kuo Contractors, petty traders, investors, and entrepreneurs from China have been pouring into Uganda for the past decade. China is a top investor in the east African country, accounting for as much as half of total foreign investment between…

  • When Looks Deceive: Being Biracial in Poland Wanderfull 2016-11-14 Julia Kitlinski-hong San Francisco, California It was a late December evening and my mom had just arrived in Krakow, where I had been studying for the past three months. We were making our way from my apartment to where she was staying in the nearby city…

  • Skin deep North By Northwestern Fall 2016 Mira Wang Photo by Alex Furuya / North by Northwestern Cracking the foundations of white beauty. When I was younger, my Asian American friends and I would play house. We’d be older, popular and wise to the world. We’d have cars and phones and play dates at the…

  • Seminar: Ideals of Miscegenation: Ethnicity, Sexuality, and the Chinese Ideology of “Region” University of Sydney Old Teachers College Room 310 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2016-12-05, 14:00-15:30 AEDT (Local Time) Ha Guangtian, Postdoctoral Research Fellow SOAS China Institute, London, United Kingdom While the word “miscegenation” normally carries a strongly negative connotation in the history of…

  • A young playwright’s quest to ask difficult questions about race, class and gender The Los Angeles Times 2016-12-02 Margaret Gray Leah Nanako Winkler’s new play “Kentucky” is a comedy about a Japanese American woman raised in the South. Like her protagonist Hiro, Winkler is half-Japanese and grew up in Kentucky. Like Hiro, she left  for New York…

  • A Picture of Her ‘Kentucky’ Home The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2016-11-27 Mikey Hirano Culross Leah Nanako Winkler was born in Japan, raised in Lexington, Kentucky, and now lives in New York City. Leah Nanako Winkler arrived more than flustered, bounding into a dressing room at East West Players after having endured…

  • Hapa Capsulizes Painful Moments from 2016 Asian America in Less than 90 Seconds AsAmNews 2016-11-27 Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent A popular new video out less than a week freezes in time moments in 2016 that highlight the racism and the persistent whitewashing the Asian American community faced throughout the year. The short A-woke is…

  • Biracial Identity Development: A Case of Black-Korean Biracial Individuals in Korea International Journal Multicultural Education Volume 18, Number 3 (2016) pages 40-57 DOI: 10.18251/ijme.v18i3.1193 Hyein Amber Kim, Lecturer in Korean Language University of Washington This study examines two cases of Black-Korean biracial individuals and 4 Black-Korean biracial public figures who were playing influential roles in…

  • Tall, pale and handsome: why more Asian men are using skin-whitening products The Conversation 2016-11-24 Gideon Lasco, Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Anthropology Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) University of Amsterdam Jose, 19, is a college student in Puerto Princesa City, Philippines. On a regular school day, after he wakes up, he takes a…