Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Asian Diaspora
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DePaul Art Minute – War Baby/Love Child exhibition DePaul Newsroom DePaul Art Museum 2013-05-16 DePaul University Associate Professor Laura Kina discusses how art featured in the “War Baby/Love Child” exhibit helps to tell the story of mixed race Asian Americans and the complexities of their mixed-heritage identities, in the third installment of the DePaul Art…
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Local Artists Collaborate on Asian Heritage Art Exhibits at DePaul Vocalo Morning Amp Vocalo 90.7 FM Chicago, Illinois 2013-05-16 Brian Babylon and Molly Adams, Hosts The exhibit War Baby/Love Child at the DePaul Art Museum highlights the work of mixed race artists who share Asian heritage in their identities. Curator Laura Kina and artist Mequitta…
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Parallel Adele Third World Newsreel 2008 Color 16 minutes USA English Adele Pham, Director/Producer Two half Vietnamese documentary filmmakers, both named Adele, weave a shared narrative of mixed Asian (hapa) experiences through interviews with 7 other mixed race subjects. History, memory, and anecdotes on multiracial ethnicity are represented through archival images, super 8 film, verité,…
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‘Yokohama Yankee’: a family’s lineage in both Japan and America The Seattle Times Books 2013-04-01 David Takami, Special to The Seattle Times ‘Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan’ by Leslie Helm Chin Music Press, 360 pp. Leslie Helm’s remarkable family memoir begins at a point of personal distress. At a memorial…
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The longstanding attempt to legislate Indigenous-Asian relations out of existence continues to cast its shadow today. Cathy Freeman is identified as Australia’s most famous Indigenous sportswoman, but she is also of Chinese descent.
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Alien Citizen: Review www.ReviewPlays.com ALIEN CITIZEN Asylum Lab 2013-05-13 Jose Ruiz Elizabeth Liang steps on the solo stage to tell the world what it’s like to be a TCK (Third Culture Kid). These are people who, as children, traveled the globe intermittently because their parents were sent to diplomatic, business or military assignments and the…
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‘War Baby’ is something to see, if you can let go The Chicago Tribune 2013-05-08 Lori Waxman, Instructor of Art History, Theory and Criticism School of the Art Institute of Chicago It was the Hello Kitty tepee that did it for me. Some exhibitions can be so challenging that it takes a particularly unexpected artwork…
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A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980 Duke University Press 2007 256 pages 29 illus., 8 tables, 1 map Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4081-2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4060-7 Jeffrey Lesser, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia In A Discontented Diaspora, Jeffrey Lesser investigates broad questions of ethnicity, the nature…