Category: Asian Diaspora

  • As a dancer and choreographer, she sought to represent a broad range of ethnic groups, but audiences often sexualized and exoticized her by focusing on her mixed race.

  • Opinion: Hollywood is putting mixed couples on screen. If only they would talk about it. The Washington Post 2021-12-29 Tracy Moore, Contributing Writer at Vanity Fair Los Angeles, California (Jason Lyon/For The Washington Post) In Netflix’s holiday rom-com “Love Hard,” comedian Jimmy O. Yang plays Josh Lin, a Chinese American everyman who uses the photo…

  • German-born photographer Zun Lee documents the special non-special moments of black family life.

  • Alena Murang, who has mixed parentage, discovered only as an adult that she was not legally “native” in her homeland, Sarawak.

  • In sinuous language, with candour, openness, and surprising humour, Dunic explores sibling and romantic love and the complexities of being a biracial person looking for completion in another.

  • UT students, staff reflect on experiences with racial passing The Daily Texan: Serving the University of Texas at Austin Community Since 1900 2021-12-05 Sofia Treviño, Life & Arts Senior Reporter Julius Shieh/The Daily Texan Disliking her paler skin compared to other darker-complected Hispanics growing up, Rachel González-Martin spent hours lying under the sun willing herself…

  • As the population of mixed-race Japanese—popularly called hāfu—grows, entertainers and athletes with bicultural backgrounds are increasingly prominent. However, most of those considered hāfu in Japan live normal, private lives, struggling daily with curiosity, prejudice, and their own identity conflicts. Whole, a new short film, takes up the issues facing just such people through the story…

  • The Balance Tips Interlude Press 2021-10-05 280 pages 6″x9″ ISBN (Print): 978-1-951954-01-7 ISBN (EPUB): 978-1-951954-02-4 Joy Huang-Iris Fay Wu Goodson is a 25-year-old queer, multiracial woman who documents the identity journeys of other New Yorkers. She finds her videography work meaningful, but more importantly, it distracts her from investigating the challenges of her own life…

  • “Speak, Okinawa” is my attempt to explain myself. Not just my own shame and internalized racism, but the long-standing systems and imperialistic origins that caused me to reject my mother and deny my heritage. “Speak, Okinawa” is my attempt at reconciliation.

  • During the second world war, Chinese sailors served alongside their British allies in the merchant navy, heroically keeping supply lines open to the UK. But after the war hundreds of them who had settled in Liverpool suddenly disappeared. Now their children are piecing together the truth