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  • AALR Mixed Race Initiative

    AALR Mixed Race Initiative Akemi Johnson 2013-03-24 Akemi Johnson Historian Lily Anne Yumi Welty and I just finished writing our collaborative piece for The Asian American Literary Review’s special issue on mixed race, coming out this fall. Lily and I shared a summer of research (and karaoke, kaiten sushi, officers’ clubs, and sweltering traffic jams)…

  • Barry McGee

    Barry McGee art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century Public Broadcasting Service Season 1 (2001), Place About Barry McGee A lauded and much-respected cult figure in a bi-coastal subculture that comprises skaters, graffiti artists, and West Coast surfers, Barry McGee was born in 1966 in California, where he continues to live and work. In 1991, he…

  • The Graffitist Who Moved Indoors

    The Graffitist Who Moved Indoors The New York Times 2013-03-28 Carol Kino SAN FRANCISCO — “This is one of my favorite things to do,” Barry McGee said as he drove along the Bayshore Freeway on a glowering winter day, pointing out random patches of new graffiti. He was supposed to be talking about his traveling…

  • Race and Ethnicity in the formation of Panamanian National Identity: Panamanian Discrimination Against Chinese and West Indians in the Thirties

    Race and Ethnicity in the formation of Panamanian National Identity: Panamanian Discrimination Against Chinese and West Indians in the Thirties Revista Panameña de Política Number 4 (July-December 2007) pages 61-92 Marixa Lasso De Paulis, Associate Professor of History Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio The article examines the conditions governing the interrelationship between Chinese and…

  • “You’re Irish?” Celebrating Hidden Identities

    “You’re Irish?” Celebrating Hidden Identities Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-03-31 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University “You’re Irish?” I introduced myself to the Irishman by my father’s family name Murphy and watched as he stared at me in seeming disbelief and confusion before uttering, “Well, it’s a good name anyway.” I recalled this incident recently as I celebrated St.…

  • Identity for mixed-race kids? ‘Eurasian’ already exists

    Identity for mixed-race kids? ‘Eurasian’ already exists The Straits Times Singapore Forum Letters 2013-03-30 Michael Ang York Poon I am baffled by Mr Peter Wadeley’s letter (“S’porean identity must include mixed-race kids“; March 16). What he is calling for already exists – that is, Eurasians, who are one of Singapore’s four main racial groups. In…

  • S’porean identity must include mixed-race kids

    S’porean identity must include mixed-race kids The Straits Times Singapore Forum Letters 2013-03-16 Peter Wadeley MRS MARIETTA Koh Ai-meng (“Citizens have every right to expect privileges”; last Saturday) claims that rising consciousness of what it means to be Singaporean should not be decried as chauvinistic or jingoistic. Last year, former president S R Nathan said…

  • Cross-Cultural Affinities between Native American and White Women in “The Alaska Widow” by Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far)

    Cross-Cultural Affinities between Native American and White Women in “The Alaska Widow” by Edith Eaton (Sui Sin Far) MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Volume 38, Number 1 (Spring 2013) pages 155-163 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mls002 Mary Chapman, Associate Professor of English University of British Columbia When her work was recovered in the 1980s, Edith Eaton…

  • Ai Means Love

    Ai Means Love The Kenyon Review 2010-03-27 Tamiko Beyer Last week, the poet Ai passed away, unexpectedly. She was one of the first poets I read when I started studying poetry, and I have always admired the fierce bravery of her work. From her poems, I learned about the poetic possibilities of the persona. I…

  • Appo Will Serve Six Months

    Appo Will Serve Six Months The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Thursday, 1895-10-03 page 12, column 2 Source: Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection George Appo, the Chinese half-bred, who obtained notoriety especially through his testimony before the Lexow senate investigating committee, and who pleaded guilty to assault in the third degree in the stabbing of Policeman Michael…