Category: Asian Diaspora

  • Do 2 Halves Really Make a Whole? Center for Asian American Media 1993 30 minutes VHS Martha Chono-Helsley, Producer/Director This video features the diverse viewpoints of people with multiracial Asian heritages. African and Japanese American poet and playwright Velina Hasu Houston lives an “amalgamated existence” and encourages others to take pride in all that they…

  • Hapa: One Step at a Time Center for Asian American Media 2001 26 minutes DVD Midori Sperandeo, Producer KVIE-TV According to 2000 Census statistics, nearly 7 million Americans identify themselves as multi-racial, or ‘hapa.’ This engaging first-person documentary is about marathon runner and TV producer Midori Sperandeo’s struggles to come to terms with her hapa…

  • A Hapa Family in Chekhov’s Three Sisters Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 3 (2012), Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature pages 130-146 Elizabeth Liang, Actress, Writer, Producer and co-host of “Hapa Happy Hour” It is an act of courage or foolhardiness to produce theatre in the heart of the film world, depending…

  • Dismantling the Race Myth Kyoto International Conference Center Kyoto, Japan 2012-12-15 through 2012-12-16 Poster (PDF, Japanese) Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University presents International Symposium.   “Race” still has social reality even though it has no biological reality. This symposium aims to dismantle the race myth by bringing together scholars in a wide range…

  • Whiteness and the city: Australians of Anglo-Indian heritage in suburban Melbourne South Asian Diaspora Volume 4, Issue 2, May 2012 pages 123-137 DOI: 10.1080/19438192.2012.675721 Michele Lobo, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow Arts and Education Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Leslie Morgan School of Education Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia This paper uses an auto-ethnographic approach to map…

  • Demographic Shifts Redefine What It Means to Be Korean The New York Times 2012-11-29 Choe Sang-Hun SEOUL, South Korea — Jasmine Lee realizes just how Korean she’s become when she breaks out in the language, forgetting that her Filipino mother on the other end of the phone can’t understand her. But she is reminded of…

  • The Modern Girl and the Vamp: Hollywood Film in Tanizaki Jun’ichirô’s Early Novels positions: asia critique Volume 20, Number 4 (2012) pages 1067-1093 DOI: 10.1215/10679847-1717672 Deborah Shamoon, Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies National University of Singapore Chijin no ai (Naomi, 1924) and Nikukai (A Lump of Flesh, 1923), by Tanizaki Jun’ichirô, were seminal texts in…

  • Multiple Voices: Racial and Ethnic Socialization Within Interracial Asian and White Families Alliant International University, San Francisco 2012 138 pages Publication Number: AAT 3517943 ISBN: 9781267486448 Sarah Kasuga-Jenks Presented to the Faculty of The California School of Professional Psychology San Francisco Campus Alliant International University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of…

  • Eurasian Hybridity in Chinese Utopian Visions: From “One World” to “A Society Based on Beauty” and Beyond positions: east asia cultures critique Volume 14, Number 1, Spring 2006 pages 131-163 Emma Jinhua Teng, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations; Associate Professor of Chinese Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology  “Can Mixed-Blood Hybrids Really…

  • Debra Yepa-Pappan: Dual(ing) Identities Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place Santa Fe, New Mexico 2012-08-17 through 2012-12-31 SmDivine Spirits This exhibition focuses on Debra Yepa-Pappan’s reflective group of works that explore her dual identities. Yepa-Pappan is of Jemez Pueblo and Korean heritage. Through this multilayered collection of work, Yepa-Pappan layers instances of history,…