Category: Videos

  • Halving the Bones: A film by Ruth Ozeki Women Make Movies 1995 70 minutes Color/BW, DVD Ruth Ozeki, Filmmaker, Novelist, and Zen Buddhist Priest Skeletons in the closet? Halving the Bones delivers a surprising twist to this tale. This cleverly-constructed film tells the story of Ruth, a half-Japanese filmmaker living in New York, who has inherited…

  • South Korea’s multiculturalism Al Jazeera The Stream 2013-05-21 How is the nation dealing with its growing diversity? A multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society is an emerging reality that is leading to a lot of racial and social discord in South Korea. Faced with an aging population and an influx of migrant wives, many are clinging to their…

  • The Story of Fort Mosé Freedom Road Productions 2013 Derek Hankerson, Director Francisco Menendez (played by James Bullock) This is the story of Fort Mosé and Francisco Menendez in St. Augustine, Florida.

  • 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…

  • Dr. Ralina Joseph and Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial I Mix What I Like 2013-01-11 Jared A. Ball, Host and Associate Professor of Communication Studies Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland This is part one of our discussion with Dr. Ralina Joseph about her book, Transcending Blackness: From the New…

  • 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,…

  • Even The Rivers: A film about educating South Korea’s multiethnic generation. April 2013 Cindy Lou Howe, Director Matt Kelley, Producer Uikwon Lee, Researcher “In 10 years, even the rivers and mountains change.” —Korean proverb South Korea has seemingly always known dramatic change. Created after Japanese colonization and a devastating civil war, the nation became one…

  • State of Race 2013: Presentation on the Demographics of Race The Aspen Institute Washington, D.C. 2013-04-24 Presenter: Paul Taylor, Executive Vice-President and Director of Social and Demographic Trends Project Pew Research Center

  • Hafu: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 29th Edition 2013-05-02 through 2013-05-12 2012 87 minutes Directed by: Megumi Nishikura and Lara Perez Takagi English, Japanese Screening: Wednesday, 2013-05-08, 19:30 PDT (Local Time): National Center for the Preservation of Democracy HAFU is more than a mere documentary about mixed race Japanese, or…

  • TEDxNorthwesternU – Rick Kittles – The Biology of Race in the Absence of Biological Races TEDxTalks 2011-01-25 Rick Kittles, Professor of Medicine University of Illinois, Chicago College of Medicine Defining “race” continues to be a nemesis. Knowledge from human genetic research is increasingly challenging the notion that race and biology are inextricably linked, engendering tremendous…