Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Relevance of Race: Children and the Shifting Engagement with Racial/Ethnic Identity among Second-Generation Interracially Married Asian Americans Journal of Asian American Studies Volume 16, Number 2, June 2013 pages 189-221 DOI: 10.1353/jaas.2013.0019 Kelly H. Chong, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Kansas Asian Americans have historically enjoyed one of the highest rates of intermarriage of…

  • War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art Opening Reception Wing Luke Museum 719 South King Street Seattle, Washington Thursday, 2013-08-08, 18:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Join us for the opening reception of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art. As an increasingly ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation is coming of age, this multi-platform project…

  • From my September 2011 talk at Spalding University in Louisville, KY. In this snippet, I respond to a question about how we should understand or think about biracial and multiracial folks’ experiences in a system of racism/white supremacy.

  • An African American’s Perspective on the Korean Wave The Chosunilbo Seoul, Korea 2013-07-09 Emanuel Pastreich, Associate Professor Humanitas College, Kyunghee University I received an unexpected email in February 2013, from a young woman who was studying public health at Harvard University. Mariesa Lee Ricks explained that her mother was Korean and that she had a…

  • Q&A with artist and author Laura Kina Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb 2013-07-11 Deborah Kalb Laura Kina, the Vincent de Paul associate professor of Art, Media, and Design at DePaul University, is the co-editor of the new book War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and the co-curator of an accompanying art exhibit. She…

  • Quiting India: the Anglo-Indian Culture of Migration sites: a Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies Volume 4, Number 2 (2007) pages 32-56 DOI: 10.11157/sites-vol4iss2id73 Robyn Andrews, Lecturer, Social Anthropology Programme Massey University In my work with the Anglo-Indians in Calcutta I was reminded of Caplan’s (1995) comment that Anglo-Indians had a ‘culture of emigration’,…

  • Anglo-Indians: Is their culture dying out? BBC News Magazine 2013-01-03 Kris Griffiths A product of the British Empire, with a mixture of Western and Indian names, customs and complexions, 2,000 Anglo-Indians are to attend a reunion in Calcutta. But their communities in both the UK and the subcontinent are disappearing, writes Anglo-Indian Kris Griffiths. Southall…

  • Winners of 1st Korea Multicultural Youth Awards The Korea Times 2012-12-12 Jun Ji-hye Habitus, a student volunteer group at Yongmoon High School in Seoul, has worked for vulnerable members of society such as the disabled, senior citizens and multiracial children. Among their good works, running the study room for elementary school students from multiracial families…

  • Capturing the Spirit World on Film: Albert Chong’s artistic recipe blends Jamaica, Catholicism, Santeria and America in an eclectic artistic stew The Los Angeles Times 1993-10-10 Leah Ollman When photographer and installation artist Albert Chong was about 6 years old, his parents bought a new house in Kingston, Jamaica. Chong’s father invited a Catholic priest…

  • In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown.