Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study Macmillan Ninth Edition 2014 732 pages Paper Text ISBN-10: 1-4292-4217-5; ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-4217-2 Paula S. Rothenberg, Senior Fellow; The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Professor Emerita; William Patterson University of New Jersey Like no other text, this best-selling anthology effectively introduces students to…

  • Just Black?: Multi-Racial Identity Filmakers Library 1992 00:59:00 Produced by: Francine Winddance Twine Jonathan F. Warren Francisco Ferrandiz Most of us at one time or other are faced with an official form requiring us to “check” the applicable ethnic designation. What “box” does a person check if his or her parents come from different racial…

  • Human Variation: A Genetic Perspective on Diversity, Race, and Medicine Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 2014 131 pages (21 4C, 5B&W), index Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-621820-90-1 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-936113-25-5 Edited by: Aravinda Chakravarti, Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Molecular Biology & Genetics, and, Biostatistics Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Institute of Genetic Medicine Since the appearance…

  • Korean TV networks move to oust discrimination against gender, race The Korean Herald 2015-10-18 Claire Lee A much-criticized scene from MBC’s “Three Wheels,” where two female comedians appeared in blackface in 2012. Photo: MBC Screengrab In 2012, South Korea’s public broadcaster MBC sparked outrage among international viewers when it aired a segment of two Korean…

  • How I Found My Way to Hapa The Mash-Up Americans 2010-10-06 Tanya Tarr Being mixed race can make people look at you like you’re a unicorn. We’re the changing face of America! We have a racial passport to anywhere! We can also grow up confused, and challenged on our identity on every front. Is half…

  • Lecture, forum at UH-Hilo to explore Filipino identity Hawaii Tribune-Herald Hilo, Hawaii 2015-10-13 Dr. Ronald R. Sundstrom Dr. Ronald Sundstrom, professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco, will deliver a public lecture titled “The Filipino-American Experience and The Post-Racial State” from 4-5:30 p.m. Friday at the University of Hawaii at Hilo UCB 127.…

  • The Invisible Asian The New York Times 2015-10-07 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia David Haekwon Kim, Associate Professor of Philosophy University of San Francisco This is the latest in a series of interviews about philosophy of race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is with David Haekwon Kim, an…

  • Grace Lee Boggs, Human Rights Advocate for 7 Decades, Dies at 100 The New York Times 2015-10-05 Robert D. McFadden Ms. Boggs and her husband, James. Credit LeeLee Films, Inc. Grace Lee Boggs, one of the nation’s oldest human rights activists, who waged a war of inspiration for civil rights, labor, feminism, the environment and…

  • Employee’s Change in Racial Self-Identification Cannot Support Discrimination Claim if Employer Unaware of Change JD Supra Business Advisor 2015-10-05 Jonathan Crotty Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Charlotte, North Carolina Michael Vanesse Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP, Charlotte, North Carolina In recent years, more Americans have begun identifying themselves as biracial or of mixed…

  • “To be hybrid anticipates the future.” —Isamu Noguchi, 1942