Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan [Presentation] German Institute for Japanese Studies (Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien) Jochi Kioizaka Bldg. 2F 7-1 Kioicho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0094, Japan Wednesday, 2013-06-12, 18:30 JST (Local Time) Leslie Helm, Seattle Business Magazine The DIJ Social Science Study Group is a forum for young scholars and Ph.D.…
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‘Yokohama Yankee’: a family’s lineage in both Japan and America The Seattle Times Books 2013-04-01 David Takami, Special to The Seattle Times ‘Yokohama Yankee: My Family’s Five Generations as Outsiders in Japan’ by Leslie Helm Chin Music Press, 360 pp. Leslie Helm’s remarkable family memoir begins at a point of personal distress. At a memorial…
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FILM: Mixed-Race People Tell Their Stories in ‘Hafu’ The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2013-05-03 J.K. Yamamoto, Rafu Staff Writer “Hafu,” a new documentary about mixed-race people in Japan, will be screened Wednesday, May 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum, First and Central in Little Tokyo, as part of…
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Sheila K. Johnson on Yokohama Yankee Los Angeles Review of Books 2013-03-13 Sheila K. Johnson, Anthropologist, Gerontologist, and Freelance Writer Oh, To Be Japanese! MANY FOREIGNERS have fallen in love with Japan — its physical beauty, its culture, its people. Most of these foreigners have been men, and some have married Japanese women or taken…
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Leslie Helm’s decision to adopt Japanese children launches him on a personal journey through his family’s 140 years in Japan, beginning with his German great grandfather, who worked as a military adviser in 1870 and defied custom to marry his Japanese mistress. The family’s poignant experiences of love and war help Helm learn to embrace…
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Nihon NY – Episode 30 – JERO Japan Society NYC 2012-06-18 Pittsburgh-native, Tokyo-based enka superstar JERO made his New York debut at Japan Society earlier this month. With his smooth voice and hip-hop stylings, JERO has breathed new life into this sentimental Japanese music genre often associated with themes of one’s hometown, lost loves and…
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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…
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Children of the Occupation Radio National Big Ideals Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2013-03-11 For a decade following the end of the Second World War, foreign troops occupied Japan. During that time, thousands of mixed race children were born, the result of relationships between the occupying servicemen – Australians, Americans, Brits – and Japanese women. What became…