Mixed Race Studies

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  • Confusion.

    Confusion. Mixed Humans ~ Reflections on occupying a space of inbetweenness. Persistently grappling with identity. 2015-01-18 Natalie Armitage London Authenticity. Authentic. What is that? I always wondered, what it meant when people referred to the lentils mum made us as “really authentic, not like that stuff you get in the curry houses thats not real,…

  • “Funny—You Don’t Look Jewish!”: Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Identities of Children of Asian American and Jewish American Spouses

    “Funny—You Don’t Look Jewish!”: Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Identities of Children of Asian American and Jewish American Spouses Journal of Jewish Identities Issue 8, Number 1, January 2015 pages 129-148 Helen Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Noah Leavitt, Research Associate Department of Sociology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Rachel Williams…

  • A Jewish-Asian Couple’s Union Leads to a Scholarly Interest in Intermarriage

    A Jewish-Asian Couple’s Union Leads to a Scholarly Interest in Intermarriage The New York Times 2012-06-15 Samuel G. Freedman, Professor of Journalism Columbia University, New York, New York One weekend night 15 years ago, a group of graduate students at the University of Chicago decided to interrupt their research long enough for a dinner party.…

  • The Newest Jews? Understanding Jewish American and Asian American Marriages

    The Newest Jews? Understanding Jewish American and Asian American Marriages Contemporary Jewry July 2012, Volume 32, Issue 2 pages 135-166 DOI: 10.1007/s12397-012-9078-y Helen K. Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Noah Leavitt, Research Associate Department of Sociology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington This paper investigates how racial, ethnic and religious identities…

  • China Dolls by Lisa See

    China Dolls by Lisa See Discover Nikkei 2015-01-15 Leslie Yamaguchi Fans of best-selling author Lisa See will not be surprised by her diverse background, the source of the unique perspective readers inevitably find in each of her novels. Born in Paris but raised and residing in Los Angeles for most of her life, she is…

  • Young Artists: Saya Woolfalk

    Young Artists: Saya Woolfalk W November 2008 Timothy McCahill For the last two years Saya Woolfalk has practically lived in No Place, the futuristic work she is creating through painting, sculpture and video. So it’s not surprising that when she talks about it, the line between fact and fiction seems a little fuzzy. More than…

  • Critical Mixed-Race In Transnational Perspective: The US, China, And Hong Kong, 1842-1943

    Critical Mixed-Race In Transnational Perspective: The US, China, And Hong Kong, 1842-1943 Center for East Asian Studies Lathrop East Asia Library, Room 224 Stanford University 518 Memorial Way, Stanford, California Thursday, 2015-01-15, 16:15-17:30 PST (Local Time) Emma Teng, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations Massachusetts Institute of Technology This paper will examine…

  • Hafu in Japan

    Hafu in Japan Japan Sociology 2013-05-09 Maki Yoshikawa This blog explores life in Japan from a sociological perspective. It is produced by Robert Moorehead and his students at Ritsumeikan University‘s College of International Relations, in Kyoto, Japan. In Japan, there are a lot of hafu increasing the number year by year. This is because an…

  • So, What Are You?: A Multiracial Perspective On Identity

    So, What Are You?: A Multiracial Perspective On Identity Jossle Magazine 2014-11-18 Leilani Stacy Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts “So, what are you?” In a word, “Wasian,” or more accurately, “Multiracial.” Specifically, I’m a quarter Japanese, a “mutt” of white—Scottish, Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, French, English, German, Danish—and probably a little Native American (don’t worry, I didn’t…

  • The fluidity of race

    This study is an examination of the American mestizos who lived in the Philippines from 1900 to 1955. No scholarly studies exist that analyze and historicize this group, but this is understandable, as the population of the American mestizos compared to the overall Filipino population is miniscule, never exceeding 20,000 individuals at any one time.