Category: Asian Diaspora

  • An Interview with Poet Brian Komei Dempster Hyphen: Asian America Unabridged 2015-02-02 Jeffrey Thomas Leong, San Francisco Bay Area poet; 2014 graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing program in poetry I first met Brian Komei Dempster in Winter 2000 as a student in his Kearny Street Workshop writing class, held…

  • From Behind the Counter: Poems From a Rural Jamaican Experience Ian Randle Publishers 2000-09-05 216 pages 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-9768123879 Easton Lee Photographs by Owen Minott Easton Lee was born to a Chinese father and a Jamaican mother of mixed racial heritage in the 1930s at Wait-a-bit, Trelawny, Jamaica. The…

  • Moving beyond monoracial categories The Daily: of the University of Washington 2015-01-25 Emily Muirhead I once had a professor claim that in 50 years, everyone will be so racially “mixed” and therefore ambiguous, no one will be able to distinguish “what someone is,” so race won’t matter much anymore. As a biracial individual who has…

  • About Hatsumi… with Toronto Director Chris Hope: Part 1 of 3 Discover Nikkei 2012-06-27 Norm Masaji Ibuki An extraordinary and beautiful film…exhaustively and passionately researched, both at the level of the filmmaker’s personal history and as an investigation into our national consciousness” —Academy Award® Nominated Director, Atom Egoyan Thus far in 2012, the 70th anniversary…

  • ‘Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye,’ by Marie Mutsuki Mockett Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2015-01-23 Richard Lloyd Parry Mockett, Marie Mutsuki, Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015), 316 pp. Among the many shocking things about tsunamis…

  • Adopting The Asian in ‘Caucasian’: Korean Adoptees and White Privilege Hyphen: Asian America Unabridged 2015-01-20 Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut My father remembers that when I first arrived, he’d wake up to me calling out “Abojee! Abojee!” in the middle of the night, the Korean word for father. As a little girl, those nights in my new…

  • TCK TALENT: Gene Bell-Villada, literary critic, Latin Americanist, novelist, translator and TCK memoirist The Displaced Nation: A home for international creatives 2015-01-21 Elizabeth (Lisa) Liang Professor Gene Bell-Villada (own photo) Elizabeth (Lisa) Liang is here with her first column of 2015. For those who haven’t been following: she is building up quite a collection of…

  • Md. Gov. Larry Hogan and his Korean-born wife, Yumi, are a historic first couple The Washington Post 2015-01-23 Michael S. Rosenwald, Staff Writer She was a painter displaying her abstract landscapes, a single mother of three daughters who’d grown up on a chicken farm in South Korea. He was a wealthy bachelor with more interest…

  • Talking about Critical Mixed Race Studies in the Wake of Ferguson University of Washington Press Blog 2015-01-21 Laura Kina, Vincent de Paul Professor of Art, Media, & Design DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois In this guest post, Laura Kina, coeditor of War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, discusses the emerging discipline of…