Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Japanese Officer Slain San Francisco Call Volume 113, Number 107 1913-03-17 page 3, column 4 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Los Angeles Half-caste Policeman Is Murdered in “Little Tokyo” LOS ANGELES, March 16.—Tom Fushiyama White, a half-caste Japanese, who had been connected with the Los Angeles police force for half a dozen years, was found…

  • From the Golden Gate to the Green Mountains: A Hapa Educational Autobiography and Meta-Critical Reflection University of Vermont October 2012 65 pages Noelle Brassey A Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Graduate College of The University of Vermont In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts Specializing in English…

  • Five times more ‘G.I. babies’ than previously thought The Phillipine Star Manila, Philippines 2012-12-17 Jarius Bondoc There are five times more American “G.I. babies” in the Philippines than previously thought — and they continue to multiply. This is according to a recent study by a visiting American social researcher and professor in Angeles City, Pampanga.…

  • Interview with PhD Student Karla Lucht: Children’s Literature about Mixed-Race Asian Americans/Canadians The Center for Children’s Books Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign February 2013 Tad Andracki, CCB Outreach Coordinator “Everyone deserves to see themselves represented in a book. And a good book at that.” GSLIS doctoral student Karla…

  • Japanese-Brazilian Music and Ethnic Identity in the Post-Dekasegi Era: A lecture by Shanna Lorenz Barnard College, Columbia University Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall 3009 Broadway, New York, New York 2013-02-28, 18:00 EST (Local Time) Shanna Lorenz, Assistant Professor, Music; Advisory Committee, Latino/a and Latin American Studies Occidental College, Los Angeles This talk explores how…

  • World Premier of Christmas in Hanoi East West Players 120 Judge John Aiso Street Los Angeles, California 90012 2013-02-07 through 2013-03-10 Tim Dang, Producing Artistict Director Eddie Borey, Playwright Jeff Liu, Director East West Players Presents Christmas in Hanoi A mixed-race family returns to Vietnam for the first time since the war. One year after…

  • Filled with love and food, this story of the Hawaiian Wong family is an exuberant banquet of characters and stories.

  • A Feather on the Breath of God: A Novel Picador 2005 (Originally published in 1995) 192 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780312422738; ISBN10: 0312422733 Sigrid Nunez A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project…

  • The Dust of Life: America’s Children Abandoned in Vietnam University of Washington Press 1999 160 pages notes, glossary, bibliog., index Paperback ISBN: 9780295978369 Robert S. McKelvey, M.D., Professor Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Oregon Health & Science University The Dust of Life is a collection of vivid and devastating oral histories of Vietnamese Amerasians.…

  • Ten Thousand Sorrows Bantam Books 2000 240 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 0553812645; ISBN-13: 978-0553812640 Elizabeth Kim ‘I don’t know how old I was when I watched my mother’s murder, nor do I know how old I am today.’ The illegitimate daughter of a peasant and an American GI, Elizabeth Kim spent her early years as a…