Month: February 2013

  • 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.

  • Crossing the Color Line: Race, Parenting, and Culture Rutgers University Press August 1994 215 pages Cloth ISBN 0-8135-2105-X Paperback ISBN 0-8135-2374-5 Maureen T. Reddy, Professor of English Rhode Island College Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. On Lines and Bridges 2. Starting Out 3. “Why Do White People Have Vaginas?” 4. “One Drop of Black Blood” 5.…

  • 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…

  • Divided To The Vein: A Journey into Race and Family Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 1996 320 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0151931070; ISBN-13: 978-0151931071 Scott Minerbrook Scott Minerbrook’s parents hail from opposite ends of the cultural spectrum. His father was a pampered only child born into Chicago’s aspiring black bourgeoisie, while his mother was an idealistic girl from…

  • 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…

  • Mixed-Race Studies: Misstep or the next step for Ethnic Studies in a blending nation? Portland State University McNair Research Journal Volume 7, 2013 25 pages Jennifer E. Robe Portland State University In January of 2011, The New York Times reported that 2010 U.S. Census data shows that younger generations are self-reporting their racial identity as…

  • Soul to Soul: A Black Russian American Family 1865-1992 W. W. Norton & Company 1994 318 pages Hardcover ISBN-10: 0393034046; ISBN-13: 978-0393034042 Paperback ISBN: ISBN 978-0-393-31155-6 Yelena Khanga (with Susan Jacoby) As the Soviet Union crumbled in early 1991, a young Russian woman in search of her past found her way to Mississippi, to the…

  • It is scarcely necessary to point out that the intellectual superiority of the mulatto over the negro affords no sufficient ground for advocating the amalgamation of the negro and white races. If the mulatto has a better mind than the negro, he is apparently inferior to him in physique and is inferior in every way…