Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Racial Passing and the Raj American Historical Association 129th Annual Meeting New York, New York 2015-01-02 through 2015-01-05 Saturday, 2015-01-03, 15:10 EST (Local Time) Park Suite 3 (Sheraton New York) Uther Charlton-Stevens Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia Racial passing is a subject that has attracted much attention in the historiography of the Americas, as well…

  • Intermarried Couples and “Multiculturalism” in Japan CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture ISSN 1481-4374 Volume 15, Issue 2 (2013) DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.2216 Kaori Mori Want Shibaura Institute of Technology In her article “Intermarried Couples and ‘Multiculturalism’ in Japan” Kaori Mori Want discusses why hyphenated names for the children of intermarried children are important for the achievement of…

  • ‘Everything I Never Told You’ by Celeste Ng: Unspoken Thoughts About Being Mixed-Race Hapa Mama: Asian Fusion Family and Food 2014-12-28 Grace Hwang Lynch Celeste Ng’s debut novel Everything I Never Told You: A Novel has been at the top of many best books of 2014 lists — and for good reason. It’s a quick…

  • Mixed: Race cannot be invisible The Daily of the University of Washington 2012-10-27 Hayat Norimine For most of my life, I was opposed to the concept of “diversity.” Half-Japanese, half-Syrian, I was the definition of racially diverse, but I also loathed being labeled. I thought diversity was difficult to define. I thought race alone was…

  • Ming Wong’s Imitations Transit: A Journal of Travel, Migration, and Multiculturalism in the German-speaking World Volume 9, Number 2 (2014) Special Topic: Contemporary Remediations of Race and Ethnicity in German Visual Cultures 32 pages Barbara Mennel, Associate Professor of English University of Florida The article “Ming Wong’s Imitations” analyzes the installation Life of Imitation, created…

  • ‘Half Asian’? ‘Half White’? No — ‘Hapa’ National Public Radio Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity 2014-12-15 Alex Laughlin, Social Media Journalist National Journal She was tall and freckled, with long, dark hair — and we stood out in the same way. As I leaned in to say hi, she yelled over the…

  • ‘I’m proud of my African heritage’ The Korea Times 2014-12-14 Kim Se-jeong Top award winner Park Ji-han says taekwondo changed him When Park Ji-han was in his first year at elementary school, his classmates called him “African shala shala” because of his background and because he spoke Arabic. Now, a decade later, the handsome youth’s…

  • Clean comic standing The Asian Age 2014-12-07 Vishav Having performed for some well-known names including US President Barack Obama, Indian-Japanese comedian Dan Nainan comes to India with some clean comedy He has performed for the US President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Steve Wozniak and many others. He has made them all roll with…

  • Guess what? One day, when we’re all mixed race, racism won’t magically disappear.

  • 2014 National Poetry Month Poem of the Day: Fred Wah Turnstone Press Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2014-04-16 “Waiting for Saskatchewan,” the title poem for the book, arose out of an event that occurred in Nelson, BC on a winter night in the early ’80s. We had been anticipating an exhibition of art from Saskatchewan about to…