Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
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Tiger Mom’s Hapa Cubs Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-05-09 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University Are persons with one Asian parent and one non-Asian parent Asian or not Asian? Schools don’t seem to know where to place them, leaving them on their own to determine their identities. In the article, “Some Asians’ college strategy: Don’t check ‘Asian’,” some young…
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As the child of a native Japanese woman and an Irish American father, a salient feature of my life has been this ethnic heritage and the circumstances into which I was born in post—World War II Tokyo. My life, between Japan and the United States, has been marked heavily by my connections to these diverse…
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Hidden Hapa Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-04-06 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University “Hey, what are you doing over there with the Hapa?” Kathy and I looked over and there were three of our Japanese American friends at another table smiling at us, one with a mischievous grin. Sandy had jokingly pointed out that I was a mixed blood…
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The son of an Irish American father and Japanese mother, Murphy-Shigematsu has devoted his life to understanding himself as a product of his diverse roots. Across twelve chapters, his reflections are interspersed among profiles of others of biracial and mixed ethnicity and accounts of their journeys to answer a seemingly simple question: Who am I?
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In Mixed Company: Multiracial academics, advocates and artists gather for Hapa Japan Conference Nichi Bei: A mixed plate of Japanese American News & Culture 2011-05-26 Alec Yoshio MacDonald, Nichi Bei Weekly Contributor As a graduate student in UCLA’s psychology department during the late 1970s, Christine Iijima Hall absorbed scathing criticism about her dissertation. Fellow academics…
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My Transnational, Hapa Identity in Question Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-02-19 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University I like to say that I have a transnational, multicultural, multiethnic identity. I am hapa, haafu, I am both/and, Japanese AND American. But I know that many others still see the world in dichotomies, as either/or, Japanese OR American. I know…
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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…
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Multiracial: Border Crosser: Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu navigates nations, cultures and academia Nichi Bei: A mixed plate of Japanses American News & Culture 2010-05-20 Akemi Johnson Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu is looking again toward Japan. A psychotherapist, writer and academic, Murphy-Shigematsu has lived in Palo Alto, Calif. the past eight years, teaching at Stanford University and running an independent…