Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Naked Bodies, Bodies of History Hyphen Magazine: Asian America Unabridged 2013-06-27 Jenny Lee “She mimics the speaking. That might resemble speech. (Anything at all.) Bared noise, groan, bits torn from words…From the back of her neck she releases her shoulders free.  She swallows once more.” So begins the story of the halting diseuse, or female…

  • Who Is White?: Latinos, Asians, and the New Black/Nonblack Divide Lynne Rienner 2003 230 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-58826-337-7 George Yancey, Professor of Sociology University of North Texas “By the year 2050, whites will be a numerical racial minority, albeit the largest minority, in the United States.” This statement, asserts George Yancey, while statistically correct, is…

  • Black/Non-Black Divide and The Anti-Blackness of Non-Black Minorities Still Furious and Brave: Who’s Afraid of Persistent Blackness? 2013-04-03 Robert Reece Department of Sociology Duke University Last week, an Asian-American fraternity at the University of California Irvine posted a parody of a music video featuring one of their members in blackface. Blackface has become the go-to…

  • Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 HarperCollins 2011-03-15 336 pages Trimsize: 6 3/4 x 9 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780062009234; ISBN10: 0062009230 eBook ISBN: 9780062078650; ISBN10: 0062078658 MariNaomi From her father and mother’s interracial marriage to her own “you show me yours, I’ll show you mine” moments on the playground—from drug experimentation…

  • Podcast interview with Paisley Rekdal, poet and 2013 UNT Rilke Prize winner University of North Texas, Denton, Texas 2013-04-29 Julie K. West, Publications Specialist Office of Research and Economic Development Poet Paisley Rekdal is the 2013 recipient of the University of North Texas Rilke Prize. The $10,000 award, named for the great German poet, Rainer…

  • You don’t have to be mixed-race to have a mixed identity The Seattle Globalist: Where Seattle Meets the World 2013-06-24 Maggie Thorpe, Graduate student in Japan Studies University of Washington Editor’s note: Laura Kina, who is quoted throughout this post, disagrees with the representation of her perspective here. You can read her response in the comments.…

  • What’s it like to “come out” as a Third Culture Kid on stage? Elizabeth Liang tells all! The Displaced Nation: A home for international creatives 2013-06-20 The Displaced Nation Team As reported here last month, Elizabeth Liang spent the month of May performing, at a venue in Los Angeles, a one-woman show about being a…

  • Hapa Hoops: Japanese American Basketball and Community with Rex Walters Japanese American National Museum 100 North Central Avenue Los Angeles, California, 90012 Saturday, 2013-06-22, 14:00 PDT (Local Time) Join us as we explore the experiences of Hapa Japanese Americans and their experiences in Japanese American basketball leagues. Hapa Hoops will feature a screening of JANM’s…

  • Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White Basic Books 2002 416 pages 5.3 x 1.1 x 8 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780465006403; ISBN-10: 046500640X Frank H. Wu, Chancellor & Dean University of California, Hastings College of Law Writing in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the “color…

  • War Baby/Love Child: An Interview with Richard Lou Visual Memphis 2013-06-12 According to the project’s website, War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art “investigates constructions of mixed heritage Asian American identity in the United States. As an increasingly ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation is coming of age, this multi-platform project (book, traveling art exhibition, website and…