Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Voodoo Chile-Jimi Hendrix / Gayageum ver. by Luna Ourstorian: Until Lions write their own history, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the Hunter 2015-08-23 From wiki: “The gayageum or kayagum is a traditional Korean zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings, though some more recent variants have 21 or other numbers of strings. It…

  • Celeste Ng’s debut novel focuses on racial isolation The Herald & Review Decatur, Illinois Marylynne Pitz, Tribune News Service Writer Celeste Ng (pronounced “ing”) spent the first nine years of her life in the Pittsburgh suburb of South Park and recalls frequent visits to Century III Mall where her parents, who were academics, shopped enthusiastically…

  • Is It Possible to Balance Two Cultures Perfectly? Mixed Roots Stories 2015-08-06 Brittany Muddamalle, Guest Blogger I met my husband in California during a program with our church. We were just two young kids falling in love. We were lost in our own world. The scope of our differences didn’t really come out until we…

  • Beauty pageants, blackface, and bigotry: Japan’s problems with racism The Wilson Quarterly Washington, D.C. 2015-07-23 Maya Wesby Photograph via Twitter Bearing a false belief of racial singularity and superiority, can Japanese culture ever embrace diversity in an ever-intertwining world? In most developed nations, issues of race occupy headlines and are components, unstated or overt, of…

  • Desiring biracial whites: cultural consumption of white mixed-race celebrities in South Korean popular media Media Culture & Society Volume 37, Number 6 (September 2015) pages 937-947 DOI: 10.1177/0163443715593050 Ji-Hyun Ahn, Assistant Professor of Communication University of Washington Contextualizing the rise in white mixed-race celebrities and foreign entertainers from the perspective of the globalization of Korean…

  • Cedric Dover, the Anglo-Indian Who Sought Worldwide Solidarity With Racial Minorities The Wire 2015-08-10 Elisabeth Engel, Research Fellow German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Slate, Nico, The Prism of Race: W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) The scholarship that takes up W.E.B. Du…

  • The Prism of Race: W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover Palgrave Macmillan December 2014 268 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781137484093 Ebook (PDF) ISBN: 9781137484116 Ebook (EPUB) ISBN: 9781137484109 Nico Slate, Associate Professor of History Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Born a Eurasian ‘half-caste‘ in Calcutta in 1904, Cedric…

  • The Japanese women who married the enemy BBC News Magazine 2015-08-16 Vanessa Barford Seventy years ago many Japanese people in occupied Tokyo after World War Two saw US troops as the enemy. But tens of thousands of young Japanese women married GIs nonetheless – and then faced a big struggle to find their place in…

  • Half white, half Asian Dubliner Dean Van Nguyen speaks to other mixed-race Irish people in their twenties and thirties about growing up in a primarily white culture, being subjected to racist taunts, and coming to terms with their own sense of self.

  • How Embracing Your Background Can Empower Your Life: May J. Talks About Her Mixed Race Heritage, Music, and Pursuing Her Dreams. The Huffington Post United Kingdom 2015-07-17 Emma Leverton Achieving a dream career requires determination and drive, and when we look towards success it’s easy to forget that our histories are much more than just…