Tag: World War II

  • Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America New York University Press October 2013 244 pages 17 halftones Cloth ISBN: 9780814717226 Paper ISBN: 9781479892174 Catherine Ceniza Choy, Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Berkeley In the last fifty years, transnational adoption—specifically, the adoption of Asian children—has exploded in popularity as an alternative…

  • Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th-Century Black America, Japan, and Okinawa New York University Press July 2013 254 pages 4 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780814762646 Paper ISBN: 9781479897322 Yuichiro Onishi, Assistant Professor of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Transpacific Antiracism introduces the dynamic process out of which…

  • Understanding Race on Black London history walk Sociology in the City: blogging from Sociology at the University of Westminster University of Westminster London, United Kingdom 2015-02-20 Students of the first year module Understanding Race went on a walking tour this morning, led by the writer and historian Steve Martin. Challenging the popular idea that race…

  • Our story about the forced repatriation of Chinese sailors who had been recruited for the Merchant Navy during World War Two told of the devastation for those families left behind. Barbara Janecek shared her own tale in response.

  • After World War Two ended, the British government forcibly repatriated hundreds of Chinese sailors who had been recruited for the Merchant Navy. Their sudden departure had a devastating effect on families left behind, like that of Yvonne Foley.

  • Holocaust Art By A Jew Who Was Black Josef Nassy’s Vision Of Nazi Camps Has Its First U.s. Show Here. The Philadelphia Inquirer 1989-04-04 Leonard W. Boasberg, Inquirer Staff Writer There are strength and pathos in the drawings. There are loneliness and community, a sense of the desperation of the individual – the prisoner, the…

  • The Japanese women who married the enemy BBC News Magazine 2015-08-16 Vanessa Barford Seventy years ago many Japanese people in occupied Tokyo after World War Two saw US troops as the enemy. But tens of thousands of young Japanese women married GIs nonetheless – and then faced a big struggle to find their place in…

  • Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction by Diana Rebekkah Paulin (review) [Black] TDR: The Drama Review Volume 59, Number 2, Summer 2015 (T226) pages 178-180 Alex W. Black Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction. Diana Rebekkah Paulin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,…

  • The Next Great Migration The New York Times 2015-03-01 Thomas Chatterton Williams PARIS — AT dinner last summer with my brother-in-law, a grandson of Jews who fled Algeria for France, the conversation turned to the rash of anti-Semitic incidents plaguing the country. At such times, the question inevitably arises in the minds of many Jews:…

  • Occupation Babies: Mixed-Race Japanese Children Wonders & Marvels: A Community for Curious MInds who love History, its Odd Stories, and Good Reads 2015-02-28 James McGrath Morris, Guest Contributor One of the pleasures of researching a book is coming across something you don’t anticipate, something surprising that is fascinating to both the reader and the writer.…