Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Vancouver’s Hapa Festival, All Grown Up The Tyee Vancouver, British Columbia Canada 2015-09-03 Christopher Cheung From one generation to another, an identity conversation continues. Jeff Chiba Stearns is about to be a father in November, and there’s an important conversation he wants to have with his daughter that he never had with his own family…

  • Being ‘hafu’ in Japan: Mixed-race people face ridicule, rejection Al Jazeera America 2015-09-09 Roxana Saberi Among Japanese, the perception of pure ethnic background is a big part of belonging to the culture TOKYO — Ariana Miyamoto was born and raised in Japan and speaks fluent Japanese. But she said most people in her homeland see…

  • What Are You? A Personal Poetry Reading Slide Share 2013-10-18 Gerry Yokota, Professor Osaka University, Osaka, Japan My reading of the 1971 poem by Nobuko JoAnne Miyamoto when I was young kids used to ask me what are you? I’d tell them what my mom told me I’m an American Chin Chin Chinaman you’re a…

  • An Interview with Celeste Ng, Author of Everything I Never Told You The Toast 2015-09-02 Nicole S. Chung, Managing Editor Celeste Ng is the author of the novel Everything I Never Told You, which was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Notable Book of 2014, Amazon’s #1 Best Book of 2014, and…

  • Four-country newspaper framing of Barack Obama’s multiracial identity in the 2008 US presidential election Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies Volume 35, Issue 3, 2014 pages 23-38 DOI: 10.1080/02560054.2014.955867 Kioko Ireri, Assistant Professor of Journalism & Mass Communication United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya Though Barack Obama was the first African American presidential nominee for a…

  • Does ‘Half Chinese, Half Jewish’ Condemn Me To Being Neither? Forward 2015-08-21 Rachel E. Gross When I was four years old, my father introduced me to his colleague, Jing. “Are you Chinese?” I asked, eyeing her shrewdly. “Yes,” she replied. “So am I,” I said. “And shoe-ish, too!” My father likes to tell this story,…

  • From Okinawa to Hawaii and Back Again What It Means to Be American: Hosted by The Smithsonian and Zócalo Public Square 2015-08-31 Laua Kina, Vincent de Paul Professor of Art, Media, & Design DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Kibei Nisei, 30 x 45 inches Oil on canvas (2012) A Painter Follows the Currents of Her Family…

  • Our story about the forced repatriation of Chinese sailors who had been recruited for the Merchant Navy during World War Two told of the devastation for those families left behind. Barbara Janecek shared her own tale in response.

  • After World War Two ended, the British government forcibly repatriated hundreds of Chinese sailors who had been recruited for the Merchant Navy. Their sudden departure had a devastating effect on families left behind, like that of Yvonne Foley.

  • High Yellow Poetry Foundation October 2014 Hannah Lowe Errol drives me to Treasure Beach It’s an old story, the terrible storm swerving the dark country roads the ship going down, half the sailors I think about what you will be, your mix drowned, half swimming the white, black, Chinese, and your father’s slate waves, spat…