Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Asian Diaspora
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Q&A: Sophomore creates group to discuss mixed-race issues The Ithican Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York 2016-08-24 Celisa Calacal, Opinion Editor Sophomore Walt Martzen created the group IC Mixed, where students can discuss mixed-race issues, a topic Martzen believes is often missing from conversations on race and identity. Jade Cardichon/The Ithacan This semester, sophomore Walt Martzen…
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The JewAsian Phenomenon: Raising Jewish-Asian Families JewishBoston: The Vibe of the Tribe 2016-08-10 Judy Bolton-Fasman, Culture Reporter A new book, as well as a conversation with its authors, sheds light on a growing segment of the Jewish population—Jewish-Asian children who are raised as Jews. Helen Kim and Noah Leavitt are the authors of “JewAsian: Race,…
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The changing faces of Singapore: Mixed race families Population.sg 2016-08-23 Karen Tee This little red dot may be tiny, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in diversity. As a society traditionally made up of people of different cultures and backgrounds, coexistence and intermixing is a common theme in our daily experience…
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‘War Brides of Japan’ To Take Focus in New Documentary NBC News 2016-08-10 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Journalist and filmmaker Yayoi Lena Winfrey is looking for more Japanese “war brides” to interview as she completes the filming for her feature-length documentary film, “War Brides of Japan.” With many of these women in their mid-80s, Winfrey said…
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‘Blasian Narratives’ struggles with the question: Black enough? Asian enough? Kore Asian Media 2016-08-16 Tae Hong “Blasian Narratives” performs inside Stanford Theatre. (Harrison Troung/Courtesy photo) Teaching third graders in an underserved area of Brooklyn, Cenisa Gavin often looks out at her mostly black and Latino students and is reminded of the failings of her own…
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Celebrating Japan’s multicultural Olympians The Japan Times 2016-08-17 Naomi Schanen, Staff Writer Meet the athletes flying the flag and challenging traditional views of what it is to be Japanese Japan and Brazil’s ties go back to the early 20th century, when the first Japanese immigrants arrived as farmers in the South American country. Brazil is…
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Eyes Wide Cut: The American Origins of Korea’s Plastic Surgery Craze The Wilson Quarterly Fall 2015 Laura Kurek South Korea’s obsession with cosmetic surgery can be traced back to an American doctor, raising uneasy questions about beauty standards. At sixteen stories high, the doctor’s office looms over the neon-colored metropolis. Within the high-rise, consultation offices,…
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Like a human tsunami, World War II brought two million American servicemen to the South Pacific where they left a human legacy of some thousands of children. “Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific” traces the intimate relationships that existed in the wartime South Pacific between U.S. servicemen and Indigenous women, and considers the fate of…
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Faithfully Podcast 8: Asian Americans, Yellowface, and Pursuing Whiteness Faithfully Magazine: At the Intersection of Race, Culture & Christianity 2016-05-28 Chinese/Filipino Author Bruce Reyes-Chow Shares Perspectives on Navigating Race The Rev. Bruce Reyes-Chow joined the Faithfully Podcast crew recently to share his thoughts and observations on some issues Asian Americans face when it comes to…