Category: Asian Diaspora

  • How A Latina-Asian American Ascended Amazon’s Ranks NBC News 2015-05-29 Stephen A. Nuño, Associate Professor of Politics & International Affairs Northern Arizona Univeristy If you have ever bought anything from the online retail giant, Amazon.com, you probably didn’t know that a multicultural woman is one of the managers leading the work behind the scenes with…

  • Learning to live with complexity and ambiguity

  • Black Miss Japan fights for race revolution’ Agence France Presse (via Yahoo) 2015-05-12 Alastair Himmer, Sport and Lifestyle Correspondent Ariana Miyamoto Tokyo (AFP) – Ariana Miyamoto entered the Miss Universe Japan beauty contest after a mixed-race friend committed suicide. And she endured abuse after winning the crown because of her skin colour. Far from being…

  • The Hafu Nation: Five Voices Tokyo Weekender: Japan’s Premier English Magazine 2015-05-03 Kyle Mullin Velina Hasu Houston (Photo by Ken Matsui) Four members of the “Hafu Nation” share their experiences of living life from (at least) two perspectives. Ariana Miyamoto has proven that beauty is not merely skin deep. Although some of her detractors criticized…

  • UCLA researchers say Japanese-Americans’ healthier golden years could be a model for other seniors UCLA Newsroom University of California, Los Angeles 2015-04-29 Venetia Lai Nearly 1 in 4 Japanese-Americans are 65 and older — nearly twice the proportion of seniors in the overall U.S. population. The facts that they are likelier to live longer than…

  • Three Unmissable Books That Can Help Us Honor Our Past Pacific Citizen: The National Newspaper of the JACL 2015-04-30 Ryan Kenji Kuramitsu, JACL MDC Youth Representative ‘It was books,” wrote social critic James Baldwin, “that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people…

  • TCK TALENT: Neil Aitken, Computer Gaming Whiz Kid Turned Award-Winning Poet The Displaced Nation 2015-04-29 Elizabeth (Lisa) Liang Neil Aitken (photo supplied) Elizabeth (Lisa) Liang is back with her column featuring interviews with Adult Third Culture Kids (ATCKs) who work in creative fields. Lisa herself is a prime example. A Guatemalan-American of Chinese-Spanish-Irish-French-German-English descent, she…

  • Ticking the box: Finding a place for mixed race The Cambridge Student University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom 2015-04-25 Chase Caldwell Smith In my life, I have been told many things – that I “look like a bit of a foreigner” or that “I couldn’t tell you were part-Asian before – I can definitely see…

  • Being Maori-Chinese uses extensive interviews with seven different families to explore historical and contemporary relations between Māori and Chinese, a subject which has never been given serious study before. A full chapter is given to each family which is explored in depth often in the voices of the protagonists themselves.

  • Laura Kina Fused Society 2015-04-16 Laura Kina, Vincent de Paul professor of Art, Media, & Design DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Meet today’s Fused Society contributor, the accomplished Laura Kina! “Laura Kina is a multiracial Asian American artist based in Chicago who identifies as “hapa, yonsei, and Unchinanchu” (mixed race, 4th generation Japanese American, and part of…