Tag: Hawaii

  • Hawaii is home to the nation’s largest share of multiracial Americans Pew Research Center 2015-06-17 Jens Manuel Krogstad, Writer/Editor, Hispanic Trends Project The number of multiracial Americans is growing nationwide, but in Hawaii, it’s nothing new. The Rainbow State – with its history of attracting immigrants from Asia and other parts of the world to…

  • Crowe’s ‘whitewashing’ sparks criticism from advocates BBC News 2015-06-07 Elena Boffetta, BBC Washington Hollywood’s reliance on bankable – and often white – actors has led to another round of sharp criticism of filmmakers for “whitewashing” roles where race and ethnicity play a part. In Aloha, Cameron Crowe’s latest film, Emma Stone, a American actress with…

  • LAURA KINA Blue Hawai’i The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture Brooklyn, New York 2015-04-02 Jonathan Goodman HAROLD B. LEMMERMAN GALLERY, NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY JANUARY 27 – MARCH 3, 2015 As an Asian-American painter of mixed background, Laura Kina creates work that is as culturally relevant as it is emotionally resonant.…

  • Yo No Sé Que Hablar — I Don’t Know What To Say Teach. Run. Write. English Teacher Running from One Adventure to the Next 2015-03-02 Christina Torres The man sitting behind me at the restaurant last month was speaking Spanish. So was the park worker the other day, which was a surprise. There was the…

  • Hawaii As ‘Racial Paradise’? Bid For Obama Library Invokes A Complex Past Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-01-15 Ellen Wu, Associate Professor of History Indiana University Sometime in March, President Obama is expected to announce his choice of the institution that will hold his presidential archive. Vying for the…

  • ‘Half Asian’? ‘Half White’? No — ‘Hapa’ National Public Radio Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity 2014-12-15 Alex Laughlin, Social Media Journalist National Journal She was tall and freckled, with long, dark hair — and we stood out in the same way. As I leaned in to say hi, she yelled over the…

  • Legacy of the President’s Mother Mālamalama, The Magazine of the University of Hawaiʻi System January 2009 (2009-01-14) Paula Bender Honolulu, Hawaiʻi Stanley Ann Dunham The candidacy and election of President Barack Obama drew international eyes to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where his parents met. But among some at the university, it is Obama’s…

  • DANCE/CHANGE: The Mixed-Race Polynesian Body in Settler and Indigenous Performance University of California, Riverside 900 University Avenue Riverside, California 92521 Athletics & Dance Building Dance Studio Theatre, ATHD 102 Tuesday, 2014-10-21, 16:10-18-00 PDT (Local Time) Maile Arvin, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Ethnic Studies University of California, Riverside The Mixed-Race Polynesian Body in Settler…

  • Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society June 2014 (2014-06-02) Maile Arvin, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies University of California, Riverside I confess: I avoided watching the 2011 Oscar award-winning movie The Descendants (directed by the acclaimed Alexander Payne of Sideways and Nebraska, starring George Clooney) for…

  • GalleryDAAS: Photographs by Ed West University of Michigan G648 Haven Hall 505 S State Street Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 2014-03-13 through 2014-05-02 Opening Reception: 2014-03-14, 17:30-20:00 CDT (Local Time) Hosted by the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS) GalleryDAAS presents So Called, a photography series by award-winning artist and U-M professor Edward West. Curated…