Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Documenting Contested Racial Identities Among Self-Identified Latina/os, Asians, Blacks, and Whites American Behavioral Scientist Volume 60, Number 4 (April 2016) pages 442-464 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613396 Nicholas Vargas, Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies and Sociology University of Florida Kevin Stainback, Associate Professor of Sociology Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana A contested racial identity refers to incongruence…

  • The Racial Reality of Being Mixed Race 91.3 KBCS Radio Bellevue, Washington 2016-03-04 Sonya Green, News & Public Affairs Director What does it mean to mixed race? It’s a term recognized but rarely considered in conversations about race and racial identity. However, it should be since according to reports, multiracial individuals are the fastest growing…

  • Is race only about the color of your skin? In “The Latinos of Asia,” Anthony Christian Ocampo shows that what “color” you are depends largely on your social context.

  • Mixed-Race Korean Adoptees Use DNA to Search For Roots NBC News 2016-03-02 Young Jin Kim Sarah Savidakis, 55, lived in South Korea until she was nine years old, at which time she was adopted by a Connecticut family. For Savidakis, who says she has grappled with the effects of early childhood trauma, memories of her…

  • Feature: Five Qs with Sharon H. Chang Writing like an Asian: Thoughts on writing, composition, and issues of identity 2016-02-26 Jee Yoon Lee, Lecturer in English/Adjust Professor Georgetown University/George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Sharon H. Chang worked with young children and families for over a decade as a teacher, administrator, advocate and parent educator. She…

  • Unwanted in their mothers’ country and unwelcome in their fathers’ homeland, Filipino Amerasians are still in search of a home.

  • 9 Benefits of Being in an Intercultural Marriage Masala Mommas: An Online Magazine for Today’s Moms with a South Asian Connection 2016-02-17 Alexandra Madhavan My husband is from South India and I am Canadian. We are the living, walking, breathing epitome of cultural differences – he is Hindu, I am Catholic; he is a strict…

  • ASA 115: Mixed Race Expeiences University of California, Davis 2012-2016 Kieu-Linh Caroline Valverde, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies “Even after our first ‘black’ president ushered in a so-called ‘post racial America,’ we understood that there is much more to the race issue than what has been presented.” Using the theme of Race Traitors, this…

  • The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts Working Paper No. 21982 February 2016 58 pages DOI: 10.3386/w21982 Brian Duncan, Professor of Economics University of Colorado Stephen J. Trejo, Professor of Economics University of Texas, Austin Because of data limitations, virtually…

  • An inquiry on racial, ethnic, and national identity among ‘mixed race’ persons of Indian and Fijian descent University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji February 2015 149 pages DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.5141.7360 Rolando Alonzo Cocom A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the partial requirements for the completion of Master of Arts in Sociology This explorative research provides…