Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Anne Liu Kellor with Kristen Millares Young — Heart Radical Third Place Books EventsThird Place Books2021-10-01 Kristen Millares Young, Host On September 28th, 2021, Third Place Books was honored to host Anne Liu Kellor for the release of her debut memoir, Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging. She will be joined in…

  • I spoke with Kellor in late July about her debut memoir, her relationship to language, her evolving impressions of China, and having the heart of a seeker.

  • Wanting to understand how her path is tied to her mother tongue, Anne, a young, multiracial American woman, travels through China, the country of her mother’s birth. Along the way, she tries on different roles—seeker, teacher, student, girlfriend, artist, and daughter—and continually asks herself: Why do I feel called to make this journey?

  • My pregnant grandmother walked through miles of man-made bombs in North Korea to reach the south. Once a wealthy woman, she now wore her remaining possessions. A local South Korean woman allowed my grandmother to enter her empty shed. There, my grandmother gave birth to my mother.

  • As the fight for the White House heated up last year and Kamala Harris became the first woman of color on a major party ticket, California State University, Northridge researchers wondered if political ideology would influence how people perceived her biracial ancestry.

  • Debut novelist Alice Stephens combines dark humor and a keen wit to examine the profound implications of not knowing where you come from; and how our perceptions of an unknown world reflect deeper truths about our own.

  • his article explores the impacts of state ideology on Japanese citizens’ racial attitudes by examining the treatment and experiences of mixed-race individuals, and Eurasians particularly, stranded in Japan during the war.

  • The stories in “Personal Attention Roleplay” are propelled by queer loneliness, mixed-race confusion, late capitalist despondency, and the pitfalls of intimacy.

  • Beyond being either-or: identification of multiracial and multiethnic Japanese Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 47, 2021 – Issue 4: Special Issue: Re-constructing Ways of Belonging: Cross-country Experiences of Multiethnic and Multiracial People pages 802-820 DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2019.1654155 Sayaka Osanami Törngren Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden Yuna…

  • One of the UK’s brightest and best comedians takes an incisive look at race and belonging.