Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Number of multiracial students on rapid rise The Korean Times 2014-09-21 Kim Se-jeong The number of elementary, middle and high school students from multiracial families soared to a record high of 67,806 as of April, the Ministry of Education said Sunday. That accounted for 1.07 percent of the 6.33 million total and is the first…

  • Proving Race Ms. Food Queen: Cooking Across Difference August 2014 Christine Gregory I am standing in the lobby of a Korean restaurant. In the split second before I’m seated, I make a conscious decision of whether or not to speak Korean. I know that if I do, it will lead to many benefits, tangible and…

  • David Palumbo-Liu interviews Ruth Ozeki Los Angeles Review of Books 2014-09-16 David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor; Professor of Comparative Literature and English Stanford University Where We Are for the Time Being with Ruth Ozeki Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and a Zen Buddhist priest. She is the author of three novels: My Year…

  • From Harlem to Shenzhen: One Jamaican-Chinese Woman’s Quest to Find Her Family The Wall Street Journal 2014-09-02 Debra Bruno Growing up in New York’s Harlem, Paula Williams Madison knew she had a Chinese grandfather, even though she had never met him. When people found out, she says, most of them would make comments such as…

  • Juxta: A film by Hiroko Yamazaki Women Make Movies 1989 29 minutes BW, 16mm/DVD Order No. W99356 Hiroko Yamazaki This beautiful drama observes the psychological effects of racism on two children of Japanese women and American servicemen. Thirty-one year old Kate, the daughter of a Japanese/white mixed marriage visits her childhood friend, Ted, a Japanese-Black…

  • One drop or two: Mixed-race identity and politics in America with Sharon H. Chang Rabble Podcast Network 2014-09-09 Charlene Sayo, Co-host Andrew Sayo, Co-host Eirene Cloma, Co-host When Seattle-based researcher and writer Sharon H. Chang wrote an essay that detailed why she tells her mixed-race son that he’s Asian and not white, many readers were…

  • Chinese culture fails to make the grade for today’s mixed-race children South China Morning Post Hong Kong, China 2014-09-08 Lijia Zhang, Writer, Journalist, Social Commentator Lijia Zhang recounts her struggle to instill pride and love of all things Chinese in her daughters May, my 17-year-old elder daughter, told me the results of her school exams…

  • In Korea, Adoptees Fight To Change Culture That Sent Them Overseas Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-09-09 Steve Haruch In the Gwanak-gu neighborhood of Seoul, there is a box. Attached to the side of a building, the box resembles a book drop at a public library, only larger, and…

  • Black Dox: Father Figure By Blacks: Canadian Black owned everything 2014-09-04 Nicole Franklin Zun Lee Father Figure – Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood Photographer: Zun Lee www.zunlee.com IG, Facebook: zunleephoto Twitter: @zunleephoto Project Timeframe: September 2011 – present Publisher/Contact/Pre-order: Ceibafoto LLC Book Release: September 19, 2014. Awards: Named on “PDN 30 2014,” Photo District…

  • The Michael Brown Tragedy: A Christian of Color Perspective Jesus for Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2014-08-25 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Today is the funeral of Michael Brown. Please join me in praying for comfort for his family.…