Category: Asian Diaspora

  • “Chino-Chicano”: A Biblical Framework for Diversity (Part I) Jesus for Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-01-03 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles I’m a “Chino-Chicano.” I was born in East Los Angeles and raised in the small town of Hacienda…

  • The Transpacific Shift in Mixed-Race Studies: Sawyer Seminar II University of Southern California, Univeristy Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) East Asian Seminar Room (110C) Friday, 2013-02-08, 10:00-16:00 PST (Local Time) Presented by the Center for Japanese Religions and Culture’s “Critical Mixed-Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminars Series…

  • Review: Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego Southern California Quarterly Volume 94, Number 4 (Winter 2012) pages 492-494 DOI: 10.1525/scq.2012.94.4.492 Alex Jacoby Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in Sun Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2012. 256 pp.) In the last decade there…

  • Where Ethnicity Was Fluid The New York Times 2012-12-29 Sam Roberts, Urban Affairs Correspondent In “Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America” (Harvard University Press, $35), Vivek Bald, who teaches writing and digital media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has produced an engaging account of a largely untold wave of immigration:…

  • Book Review: Exploring the Borderlands of Race, Nation, Sex and Gender Discover Nikkei: Japanese Migrants and Their Descendants 2012-12-26 Nancy Matsumoto Growing up in predominantly white Marin County, mixed-race yonsei Akemi Johnson hates her name and just wants to blend in. In college, though, her attitude changes. She studies race and ethnicity and travels to…

  • Black Mom + Indian Dad = Search for Identity Ebony Magazine 2012-12-17 Sharda Sekaran Sharda Sekaran can’t deny her East Indian roots, but she can’t find them either It was my senior year of college. I sat at the end of a long oval table in a meeting room in one of the academic buildings.…

  • Identity, dislocation and belonging: Chinese/European narratives of mixedness in Aotearoa/New Zealand Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Published online: 2012-12-14 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2012.752369 Zarine L. Rocha, Research Scholar Department of Sociology National University of Singapore With over 10% of the population identifying with multiple ethnic groups, identities in New Zealand are increasingly complex. This article…

  • The Mixed Race of India Sacramento Daily Union Volume 84, Number 71 1892-11-11 page 4, column 3 Source: California Digital Newspaper Collection Eurasia has no boundaries. It lies, a varying social fact, all over India, thick in the great cities, thickest in Calcutta, where the conditions of climate and bread-wining are most suitable; where, moreover,…

  • The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing 2012-05-15 220 pages 5 x 8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-936214-71-6 Tara L. Masih, Writer & Editor Award-winning editor Tara L. Masih put out a call in 2007 for Intercultural Essays dealing with the subjects of “culture, race, and a sense of place.” The prizewinners are gathered for the…

  • Hapa: One Step at a Time [KQED Upcoming Broadcasts] KQED: Public Media for Northern California KQED World (Comcast 190, Digital 9.3) 2013-01-21, 07:30 and 13:30 PST (Local Time) Race remains a powerful symbol in the US; it still is a shorthand notation for most Americans. This program speaks to how individuals of Asian and Pacific…