Tag: Duncan Williams

  • 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…

  • JANM Show Looks at Mixed Ancestry Los Angeles Downtown News 2013-04-15 Richard Guzmán DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – The very title of the new Japanese American National Museum exhibit indicates the complex factors at play in a single community. The show, Visible & Invisible: A Hapa Japanese American History, examines the diverse history of the Japanese…

  • The New Normal The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2013-04-11 Mia Nakaji Monnier, Rafu Staff Writer Hapa Japan Festival and JANM exhibit celebrate mixed Japanese and Japanese Americans Outside the newest exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum hangs a banner. Up close, visitors can make out individual pictures—each about the size of…

  • Mixed Race Across the Pacific University of Southern California Freshman Seminars Spring 2013 Duncan Williams, Associate Professor of Religion In an era when a mixed-race President of the United States proudly proclaims himself as the first Pacific President of America, how might we rethink the study of race in a global, rather than merely a…

  • The Evolution of Mixed-Race Historiography and Theory: Inaugural Sawyer Seminar University of Southern California, Univeristy Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) East Asian Seminar Room (110C) Friday, 2013-01-18, 14:00-17:00 PST (Local Time) Presented by the Center for Japanese Religions and Culture’s “Critical Mixed-Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminars…

  • The Transpacific Shift in Mixed-Race Studies: Sawyer Seminar II University of Southern California, Univeristy Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) East Asian Seminar Room (110C) Friday, 2013-02-08, 10:00-16:00 PST (Local Time) Presented by the Center for Japanese Religions and Culture’s “Critical Mixed-Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminars Series…

  • 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…

  • Research Matters June 27, 2012 USC Dornsife Research Office Weekly Updates University of Southern California 2012-06-27 Stephan Haas, Vice Dean of Research Awards This information is based upon official award data from the Contracts and Grants office. It is provided to make you aware of the interesting research that is being conducted by our colleagues…

  • Hapa Japan Conference Center for Japanese Studies Institute of East Asian Studies University of California, Berkeley 2011-04-08 through 2011-04-09 Introduction Agenda Registration Tickets: New Vision Award Recipient Jero, A Conversation & Mini-Concert Introduction Hapa is a Hawaiian term that is now widely used to describe someone of mixed racial or ethnic heritage. A New York…