Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Alien Citizen, The Play World Premier at the Asylum Lab 1078 Lillian Way Hollywood, California 90038 Fridays & Saturdays @ 20:00 PDT (Local Time) Preview May 3, 2013, Opens May 4 – June 1 Written and performed by Elizabeth Liang Directed by Sofie Calderon Associate Produced by Richard Lee, Karen Smith, and Wendy Belcher Co-produced…

  • “War Baby/Love Child~Capturing the Artistry of Mixed Identity Mixed Race Radio Blog Talk Radio 2013-08-07, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Born in Riverside, California in 1973 to an Okinawan father from Hawai’i and a Spanish-Basque/Anglo mother, Laura Kina…

  • Japanese-Canadian hapa woman makes opera fun Global Asian Women: Stories for and about Asian women around the world 2013-07-31 Elizabeth Noh Her name means a solo piece in an opera, and it just so happens that Aria Umezawa is a trained opera singer. The mixed Japanese-Canadian is also the co-founder and artistic director of Opera…

  • ‘Koreans are not racist’ The Korea Times 2013-08-02 Jonathan Breen Koreans can be close-minded to issues of race and culture, but they know it and they want to learn, says the head of a foundation that helps multiethnic children here. Yang Chan-wook, chairman of the Movement for the Advancement of the Cultural Diversity of Koreans…

  • Prove you’re Japanese: when being bicultural can be a burden The Japan Times 2013-07-29 Louise George Kittaka Parents’ decision to add a katakana name can create issues when kids enter the big wide world Japanese are Japanese and foreigners are foreigners, and never the twain shall meet? In many aspects of daily life in this…

  • War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art curated by: Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor Asian American Studies San Francisco State University Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience 2013-08-09 through 2014-01-19 719 S. King Street Seattle,…

  • Mental health service use by adolescents of Indian and White origin Archives of Disease in Childhood Published online: 2013-07-29 DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-303772 Panos Vostanis, Professor of Psychology University of Leicester Nadzeya Svirydzenka, Research Assistant Department of Psychology University of Leicester Pat Dugard, Independent Senior Statistician King’s Lynne, United Kingdom Swaran Singh, Professor of Social and Community…

  • Multiracial Daughters of Asian Immigrants: Identity and Agency Women & Therapy Volume 36,  Issue 3-4, 2013 Special Issue: Women and Immigration pages 268-285 DOI: 10.1080/02703149.2013.797776 Leilani Salvo Crane Counseling and Psychological Services University of Pennsylvania Multiracial daughters of Asian immigrants must navigate complex pathways to adulthood, self-efficacy, and self-concept. Frequently they are required by family…

  • “In 2004, I discovered my biological dad was African-American,” said Mr. Lee, who had been raised in a Korean family in Germany. “It had basically been a one-night stand. He ran away when he learned she was pregnant. She doesn’t even remember his name anymore.”

  • From Bruce Lee to Samurai Champloo, how Asian fictions fuse with African American creative sensibilities