Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Betwixt, Between and Beyond: Racial formation and “mixed race” identities in New Zealand and Singapore National University of Singapore 2013 345 pages Zarine Lia Rocha A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY “Mixed race” identities are increasingly important for academics and policy makers around the world. In many multicultural…

  • The Racial Pecking Order in British Theatre and TV Media Diversified: Tackling the lack of diversity in UK media and the ubiquity of whiteness 2014-02-28 Daniel York I’ve been reading a book recently by the American sociologist David T. Wellman with the frankly terrifying title Portraits Of White Racism. I say terrifying because it conjures…

  • Featured Writer: Daniel York Banana Writers​: Where Asian writers get unpeeled 2013-10-11 P. P. Wong Daniel York is a successful scriptwriter, director and actor who is passionate about championing equal rights for creative East Asians. Born of mixed Chinese and English parentage, the talented British writer was selected as part of the Royal Court’s Unheard Voices initiative for emerging East Asian writers.…

  • ‘Chinese, on the Inside’ The New York Times 2014-03-03 Liz Mak, writer and multimedia producer Oakland, California Catie and Kimberly were adopted from China by a couple from Maine, who attempt to pass on a culture they’ve never known firsthand. About a decade ago, Barbara Cough adopted two girls from China, Kimberly and Catie. Barbara…

  • Malaysians of mixed parentage back deleting ‘race’ in official paperwork The Malay Mail Online Petaling Jaya, Malaysia 2014-02-24 Ushar Daniele PETALING JAYA, Feb 24 — The proposal to remove the race column in all paperwork in the country has been received positively. he Malay Mail yesterday spoke to people on the street and with one…

  • Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking by Michael Keevak (review) China Review International Volume 19, Number 1, 2012 pages 103-105 DOI: 10.1353/cri.2012.0023 Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Michael Keevak, Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011). 248 pages. Becoming Yellow is a…

  • Being Mixed in Today’s America Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2014-02-07 Jonathan Ng California State University, San Bernardino For me, being mixed ethnicity has been a multiple-way street ― like a giant intersection. I am Black, White and Chinese; however, based on my skin color, most people classify me as Black. I look racially ambiguous,…

  • “Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey” Performance by Elizabeth Liang Arts at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology Eastman Laboratories (Building 6) 2014-02-21, 18:00-20:30 EST (Local Time) Written and Performed by Elizabeth Liang Who are you when you’re from everywhere and nowhere? Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey is a funny and poignant one-woman show about growing up…

  • Who intermarries in Britain? Explaining ethnic diversity in intermarriage patterns The British Journal of Sociology Volume 61, Issue 2 (June 2010) pages 275–305 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2010.01313.x Raya Muttarak, Visiting Fellow Department of Political and Social Sciences European University Institute Anthony Heath, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College University of Oxford This paper investigates…

  • Race as freedom: how Cedric Dover and Barack Obama became black Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 2 pages 222-240 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.715661 Nico Slate, Associate Professor of History Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Born across racial lines, Cedric Dover and Barack Obama both came to identify with the African American community. By contrasting the lives…