Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Panel Discussion: “Mixed Race Asian American Art and Identity” DePaul University Art Museum 935 W. Fullerton Chicago, Illinois 60614 Phone: 773-325-7506 Wednesday, 2013-05-29, 18:00 CDT (Local Time) War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art Debra Yepa-Pappan, “Live Long and Prosper (Spock was a Half-Breed),” digital print. Laura Kina, Vincent DePaul Associate Professor…

  • Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography University of Washington Press 2001 282 pages 6” x 9” Paperback ISBN: 9780295980799 Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Performative Studies, Video University of California, Santa Barbara Award-winning videomaker, performance artist, and pop-culture provocateur Kip Fulbeck has captivated audiences worldwide with his mixture of high comedy and personal narrative. In Paper Bullets,…

  • Writing Mixed Race Asian Americans into the Nation: Narratives of National Incorporation in the Bildungsroman and the Multiracial Movement Wesleyan University May 2013 80 pages May Lee Watase A thesis submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Departmental Honors in American…

  • Representing Mixed Race: Beyond “What are you?” Talking Race: A Digital Dialog 2013-05-28 Laura Kina, Vincent DePaul Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design DePaul University My 2011-12 oil paintings Issei, Nisei, Sansei, Yonsei, and Gosei are on view in “Under My Skin: Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century” at the Wing Luke Museum…

  • The Forgotten Amerasians The New York Times 2013-05-27 Christopher M. Lapinig Yale University NEW HAVEN — THE Senate Judiciary Committee approved an immigration reform bill last week that would gradually make citizenship possible for as many as 11 million undocumented immigrants. The bill is widely described as sweeping in scope. In fact, it is not…

  • “My dad is samurai”: Positioning of race and ethnicity surrounding a transnational Colombian Japanese high school student Linguistics and Education Available Online: 2013-05-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2013.03.002 Satoko Shao-Kobayashi Chiba University, Japan Highlights Racial hierarchies in different countries impact transnational students’ positioning in local contexts. Participants Other coethnics by using various labels to destigmatize their own minority…

  • Halving the Bones: A film by Ruth Ozeki Women Make Movies 1995 70 minutes Color/BW, DVD Ruth Ozeki, Filmmaker, Novelist, and Zen Buddhist Priest Skeletons in the closet? Halving the Bones delivers a surprising twist to this tale. This cleverly-constructed film tells the story of Ruth, a half-Japanese filmmaker living in New York, who has inherited…

  • South Korea’s multiculturalism Al Jazeera The Stream 2013-05-21 How is the nation dealing with its growing diversity? A multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society is an emerging reality that is leading to a lot of racial and social discord in South Korea. Faced with an aging population and an influx of migrant wives, many are clinging to their…

  • LAAPFF 2013: Mix-cultural Asians Find Their Roots 8Asians 2013-05-20 Shako Liu One common theme that has been echoing in some of the documentaries presented in Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival is that mix-raced Asians either in the states or in an Asian country, or Asian immigrants are trying to find out who they are…

  • Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan [Presentation] German Institute for Japanese Studies (Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien) Jochi Kioizaka Bldg. 2F 7-1 Kioicho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0094, Japan Wednesday, 2013-06-12, 18:30 JST (Local Time) Leslie Helm, Seattle Business Magazine The DIJ Social Science Study Group is a forum for young scholars and Ph.D.…