Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: China
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Seminar: Ideals of Miscegenation: Ethnicity, Sexuality, and the Chinese Ideology of “Region” University of Sydney Old Teachers College Room 310 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2016-12-05, 14:00-15:30 AEDT (Local Time) Ha Guangtian, Postdoctoral Research Fellow SOAS China Institute, London, United Kingdom While the word “miscegenation” normally carries a strongly negative connotation in the history of…
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These 2 Ads Might Say Everything About How Global Racism Really Is Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2016-06-26 Sharon H. Chang sigh. SIGH. Siiiiiiiiigh. Alright that’s done. I want (pause) — well I don’t want, but feel like I need to show you two TV ads…
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Mugabe raps Chinese men over mixed race babies Bulawayo24 2016-06-11 Thobekile Zhou Chinese men who are working on various projects in Zimbabwe have come under attack for not bringing along their wives. President Robert Mugabe claimed that this could lead them to prey on local girls… …He said the Chinese men end up leaving a…
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Bridging Asian and Asian American Studies through Critical Mixed Race UCLA International Institute Asia Institute 2016-05-25 Samantha Fletcher (UCLA 2016) Professor Emma Teng of MIT recently examined mixed-race identities in the U.S., China and Hong Kong as part of the Taiwan Studies Lecture Series of the Asia Institute. UCLA International Institute, May 25, 2016 —…
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Invisible Bridges: Life Along the Chinese-Russian Border The New Yorker 2016-02-09 Peter Hessler In the summer of 2014, Davide Monteleone, an Italian photographer who had lived in Moscow for more than a decade, began to travel to the Russian-Chinese border in search of something that felt real and reliable. “I had been covering the uprising…
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Two Systems or A Reading Towards New Work The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard (Sherr Room) Cambridge, Massachusetts 2015-10-28 (Published 2015-11-06) Sarah Howe, the 2015–2016 Frieda L. Miller Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, presents “Two Systems,” a new sequence of poems in which she explores the historical encounter between China and the West.
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“Crossing from Guangdong:” A Poem | Sarah Howe | TEDxHarvardCollege TEDx Talks 2015-12-02 The poet is always in a foreign country. Poet Sarah Howe shares a beautiful, melodic poem about crossing borders to find the China her mother left behind during the Communist Revolution. Sarah Howe is a British poet, academic and editor. Her first…
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Spanning four generations and moving between New York, Jamaica, and China, a powerful memoir that is a universal story of one woman’s search for her maternal grandfather and the key to her self-identity.