Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race Oxford University Press 2016-10-31 376 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780190625696 Edited by: H. Samy Alim, Professor of Education; Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics (by courtesy) Stanford University John R. Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities Stanford University Arnetha F. Ball,…

  • Creative Self-Studio: Social Justice Storytelling DePaul University Student Center (Lincoln Park) Room 120 AB 2250 N Sheffield Avenue Chicago, Illinois Tuesday, 2016-10-25 09:40-11:10 CDT (Local Time) Aisha Fukushima will discuss the role of the emcee in hip-hop culture as a story-teller and learn how hip hop story-telling can be used to critically explore questions of identity, inequality and…

  • This the first of a two part feature on the changing face of the Jewish Community. Read part two here.

  • VIFF honours B.C. filmmakers Ann Marie Fleming, Kevan Funk, Julia Hutchings, Jessica Parsons, and Jennifer Chiu The Georgia Straight Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2016-10-11 Charlie Smith Ann Marie Fleming’s Window Horses won the prize for Best Canadian Film as well as the B.C. Film Award at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival. The Vancouver International…

  • Paisley Rekdal Wins the 2016 AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction University of Georgia Press 2016-10-05 Paisley Rekdal (photo credit: Austen Diamond) Congratulations to Paisley Rekdal for winning this year’s Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction with her work The Broken Country: On Trauma, a Crime, and the Continuing Legacy of Vietnam.…

  • How do multiracial Asian people fit into discussions around race? The Record KUOW.org 94.9 FM | Seattle News & Information 2016-09-29 Caroline Chamberlain, Acquisitions Producer Bill Radke, Host Bill Radke sits down with Sharon H. Chang, author of “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World.” She explains why it’s important to study the…

  • Mixed Match documentary explores difficult search for multi-ethnic donors CBC Radio-Canada 2016-10-01 Emotional documentary about mixed-race patients seeking bone marrow, stem cell donors, a call to action It means a lot to film maker Jeff Chiba Stearns to have his new documentary Mixed Match showing at the Vancouver International Film Festival, a multi-cultural city he calls home. Stearns ancestry…

  • Uchinanchu: The Art of Laura Kina Kwan Fong Gallery of Art and Culture California Lutheran University 120 Memorial Parkway Thousand Oaks, California 91360 2016-05-23 On view: June 10–October 30, 2016 Artist’s Talk: Thursday, September 29, 2016 | 6 p.m. PDT Image: Laura Kina, Hello Kitty, acrylic on canvas and denim, assorted fabrics, t-shirts from the artist’s…

  • The Ambiguous and the Mundane: Racial Performance and Asian Americans Contemporary Literature Volume 57, Number 2, Summer 2016 pages 292-300 Josephine D. Lee, Professor of English and Asian American University of Minnesota Jennifer Ann Ho, Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2015. xi + 215 pp. $90.00…

  • ‘Raising Mixed Race’: An Evening with Sharon H. Chang and Tangerine The Seattle Public Library Central Library Level 1 – Microsoft Auditorium 1000 Fourth Avenue Seattle, Washington 98104-1109 Thursday, 2016-09-29, 19:00-21:00 PDT (Local Time) Join us for an author talk, and live music by Seattle band Tangerine, to celebrate the final stop of Sharon H.…