Month: April 2013

  • The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family Free Press (an Imprint of Simon & Schuster) October 2012 320 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781451627480 eBook ISBN: 9781451627619 Joe Mozingo “My dad’s family was a mystery,” writes prize-winning journalist Joe Mozingo. Growing up, he knew that his mother’s ancestors were…

  • MIT Scholar Vivek Bald uncovers forgotten history of South Asian immigrants’ New York City arrival New York Daily News 2013-01-17 Erica Pearson New book chronicles little-known story of Muslims from what’s now Pakistan and Bangladesh, who built a multiracial community in Harlem decades before they were legally allowed to immigrate to the U.S. Virtually all…

  • Nigeria’s dangerous skin whitening obsession   Al Jazeera 2013-04-06 Mohammed Adow Nigeria has the world’s highest percentage of women using skin lightening agents in the quest for “beauty”. Lagos, Nigeria – After carefully washing her face, legs and arms, Taiwo Solomon vigorously rubs cream over her body. She is meticulous and makes sure she covers…

  • It’s Not Always Black And White: Caught Between Two Worlds Outskirts Press 2013-01-18 100 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781478716693 John Reed, Ph.D. John Reed knows from experience how difficult the life of a biracial person can be. He was born in Germany after World War II to a German-Caucasian mother and an African-American father. The difficulty…

  • Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America [Event] Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Langston Hughes Auditorium 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, New York 10037-1801 2013-04-06, 17:30-20:30 EDT (Local Time) A book event with theater, film, and community forum presented by afro-latin@ forum, Asian American Writer’s Workshop and the Schomburg…

  • Are Hapa White Asian Americans? Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-02-01 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University Some people seem to think hapa means white Asian American, even though it originally refers to Hawaiian mixtures and is not confined to hapa haole. I never had that impression myself, as one of my first hapa friends was Margo Okazawa-Rey and she…

  • Hybrid Identities and Adolescent Girls: Being ‘Half’ in Japan Multilingual Matters 2009-12-03 280 pages 210 x 148 (A5) Paperback ISBN: 9781847692320 Hardback ISBN: 9781847692337 Laurel Kamada, Lecturer Professor Tohoku University, Japan This is the first in-depth examination of “half-Japanese” girls in Japan focusing on ethnic, gendered and embodied ‘hybrid’ identities. Challenging the myth of Japan…

  • Of Mongrels and Men: The Shared Ideology of Anti-Miscegenation Law, Chinese Exclusion, and Contemporary American Neo-Nativism bepress Legal Series Working Paper 458 2005-02-16 Geoffrey A. Neri, Associate Miller Barondess, LLP Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION II. BIRTH OF THE “ABOMINATION”: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANTI-MISCEGENATION LAW A. Origins and Early History B. Anti-Miscegenation Ideology 1. Monogenism…

  • So, What Are You… Anyway?: 2013 Conference on Multiracial Identity Hosted by the Harvard College Half-Asian People’s Association Harvard University 2013-04-05 through 2013-04-06 The Harvard Half-Asian People’s Association will host its fifth annual conference on mixed-race politics and identity issues, “So…What Are You, Anyway?” (SWAYA) on Friday, April 5, 2013 and Saturday, April 6, 2013…

  • Hapa Japan 2013 Los Angeles, California 2013-04-02 through 2013-04-06 A free Festival Celebrating Mixed-Race and Mixed-Roots Japanese People and Culture! Come join us at Hapa Japan 2013 from April 2-6, 2013 in Los Angeles for a concert featuring emerging hapa artists, a comedy night at East West Players, readings by award-winning authors, a historical exhibit…