Category: Asian Diaspora

  • New York Times Just Boarded the Post-Racial Express: A critical response to “Choose Your Own Identity” Multiracial Asian Families 2015-12-16 Sharon H. Chang screen shot from NY Times Magazine This Monday, The New York Times Magazine published a very unfortunate essay about multiracial Asian children: Choose Your Own Identity, by author and mother Bonnie Tsui.…

  • Bombay To Brooklyn: New York’s Indian Jews Strive To Preserve Heritage News India Times New York, New York 2015-12-14 Ela Dutt, Managing Editor Siona Benjamin. Photo by Sami studio Siona Benjamin, a greater New York City artist, hangs her “very typical” Indian Jewish Mezuzah, a prayer scroll in an engraved casing, on her door to…

  • Do White-Passing People of Color Have Privilege? Everyday Feminism 2015-09-07 Marina Watanabe Today I’m going to be answering a question from one of my Patreon patrons (which sounds really redundant) about being a person of color who happens to be white-passing. Before I start this, I want to explain the concept of white-passing. It basically…

  • Play means to help people of mixed race find sense of belonging MPR News Minnesota Public Radio 2015-12-15 Marianne Combs, Arts and Culture Reporter “Purple Cloud,” written by Jessica Huang and directed by Randy Reyes, looks at three generations of hapa, or mixed race, Chinese immigrants as they search to find a place where they…

  • Choose Your Own Identity The New York Times Magazine 2015-12-14 Bonnie Tsui A series of portraits from “The Hapa Project” by the artist Kip Fulbeck. Kip Fulbeck/The Hapa Project I never realized how little I understood race until I tried to explain it to my 5-year-old son. Our family story doesn’t seem too complicated: I’m…

  • No one knew Staceyann’s mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her grandmother’s house in Lottery, Jamaica, on Christmas Day. Staceyann’s mother did not want her, and her father was not present. No one, except her grandmother, thought Staceyann would survive.

  • Mistura for the fans: performing mixed-race Japanese Brazilianness in Japan Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 36, Issue 6, 2015 pages 710-728 DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2015.1095714 Zelideth María Rivas, Assistant Professor of Japanese Department of Modern Languages Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia In this article, I examine fans’ consumption of mixed-race Japanese Brazilian female bodies in Japan. The article…

  • Research continues to uncover early childhood as a crucial time when we set the stage for who we will become. In the last decade, we have also seen a sudden massive shift in America’s racial makeup with the majority of the current under-5 age population being children of color. Asian and multiracial are the fastest…

  • Former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw found guilty of rape Cable News Network (CNN) 2015-12-10 Michael Martinez, Newsdesk Editor & Writer Gigi Mann (CNN) A jury found former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw guilty Thursday of some of the most serious charges against him, including sexual battery, forcible oral sodomy and rape. Holtzclaw…

  • Raising Mixed Race: Seattle author shows realities facing multiracial children The Seattle Globalist 2015-12-09 Sharon H. Chang The day my mixed race son was born in 2009 was a turning point for the way I thought about race. Despite living for decades as a multiracial person myself, suddenly I started asking deeper questions about race,…