Mixed Race Studies

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  • Multiracial families socially excluded

    Multiracial families socially excluded The Korean Times 2016-04-26 Kim Bo-eun Multiracial family members in Korea have become more stabilized but continue to feel isolated due to obstacles in building relationships with locals, a survey shows. According to a Statistics Korea’s survey of 17,849 multiracial households here, more immigrant brides and naturalized Koreans have trouble befriending…

  • “Passing” “Presenting” & the Troubled Language of Mixed Race

    “Passing” “Presenting” & the Troubled Language of Mixed Race Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2016-04-21 Sharon H. Chang I’m a light-skinned mixed race Asian/white woman. I don’t deny it. On my lightest day, in the deep of winter, under cover of endless Seattle clouds, I could…

  • Mexican-Punjabis relation through dance

    Mexican-Punjabis relation through dance NewsGram 2016-04-17 Megha Sharma the performance held on 10th and 11th april credits: kalw.org Mexican-Punjabi is a vanishing tribe The United States had always been an open land to possibilities. It is visited by a huge number of immigrants every year. California which is not only a land of renowned universities,…

  • Negotiating Identities: Mixed Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea

    Negotiating Identities: Mixed Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea University of San Francisco McLaren Complex – MC 250 2130 Fulton Street San Francisco, California 94117-1080 2016-04-14 through 2016-04-15 The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce its spring symposium Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea,…

  • Hybrid Details: Honoring Fred Wah: with Fred Wah, Wo Chan, Mark Nowak and Jeff Derksen

    Hybrid Details: Honoring Fred Wah: with Fred Wah, Wo Chan, Mark Nowak and Jeff Derksen Asian American Writers’ Workshop 112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor New York, New York 11366 Wednesday, 2016-04-13, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Poet Fred Wah is a living legend in Canada, but he remains woefully under-read in this country. To remedy…

  • Hapas Soon to Be the Majority in the Japanese American Community

    Hapas Soon to Be the Majority in the Japanese American Community AsAmNews: Where the conversation about Asian America Begins 2016-04-16 Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent The future is now in the Japanese American community. By 2020, just four years away, demographers says the majority of Japanese Americans will be multiracial/multiethnic. A new exhibition now at…

  • Sanctioning Matrimony: Interethnic Marriage in the Arizona Borderlands

    A new look at race and ethnicity in the borderlands

  • Pao by Kerry Young – review

    Pao by Kerry Young – review The Guardian 2011-07-03 Ian Thomson Young, Kerry, Pao: A Novel (London, Oxford, New York, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011) Kerry Young’s mesmerising first novel celebrates Jamaica’s ethnic melting pot, and the lost world of Kingston’s Chinatown Jamaica, where Kerry Young was born in 1955, is an island of…

  • A conversation on what it means to be mixed race

    A conversation on what it means to be mixed race New Day Northwest KING TV 5 Seattle, Washington 2016-03-30 Margaret Larson, Host The last Census report taken in 2010 showed that the population identifying themselves as multi-racial grew by 32% over the census in 2000. One local author is raising awareness with a new book…

  • Pao: A Novel

    Pao: A Novel Bloomsbury Publishing 2011-07-12 288 pages 5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″ Paperback ISBN: 9781608195077 EPUB eBook ISBN: 9781608196845 Kerry Young As a young boy, Pao comes to Jamaica in the wake of the Chinese civil war and rises to become the Godfather of Kingston’s bustling Chinatown. Pao needs to take care of some…