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: Laura Kina
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Q&A with artist and author Laura Kina Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb 2013-07-11 Deborah Kalb Laura Kina, the Vincent de Paul associate professor of Art, Media, and Design at DePaul University, is the co-editor of the new book War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and the co-curator of an accompanying art exhibit. She…
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Naked Bodies, Bodies of History Hyphen Magazine: Asian America Unabridged 2013-06-27 Jenny Lee “She mimics the speaking. That might resemble speech. (Anything at all.) Bared noise, groan, bits torn from words…From the back of her neck she releases her shoulders free. She swallows once more.” So begins the story of the halting diseuse, or female…
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You don’t have to be mixed-race to have a mixed identity The Seattle Globalist: Where Seattle Meets the World 2013-06-24 Maggie Thorpe, Graduate student in Japan Studies University of Washington Editor’s note: Laura Kina, who is quoted throughout this post, disagrees with the representation of her perspective here. You can read her response in the comments.…
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Panel Discussion: “Mixed Race Asian American Art and Identity” DePaul University Art Museum 935 W. Fullerton Chicago, Illinois 60614 Phone: 773-325-7506 Wednesday, 2013-05-29, 18:00 CDT (Local Time) War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art Debra Yepa-Pappan, “Live Long and Prosper (Spock was a Half-Breed),” digital print. Laura Kina, Vincent DePaul Associate Professor…
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Representing Mixed Race: Beyond “What are you?” Talking Race: A Digital Dialog 2013-05-28 Laura Kina, Vincent DePaul Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design DePaul University My 2011-12 oil paintings Issei, Nisei, Sansei, Yonsei, and Gosei are on view in “Under My Skin: Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century” at the Wing Luke Museum…
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DePaul Art Minute – War Baby/Love Child exhibition DePaul Newsroom DePaul Art Museum 2013-05-16 DePaul University Associate Professor Laura Kina discusses how art featured in the “War Baby/Love Child” exhibit helps to tell the story of mixed race Asian Americans and the complexities of their mixed-heritage identities, in the third installment of the DePaul Art…
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Local Artists Collaborate on Asian Heritage Art Exhibits at DePaul Vocalo Morning Amp Vocalo 90.7 FM Chicago, Illinois 2013-05-16 Brian Babylon and Molly Adams, Hosts The exhibit War Baby/Love Child at the DePaul Art Museum highlights the work of mixed race artists who share Asian heritage in their identities. Curator Laura Kina and artist Mequitta…
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Artists explore the image of mixed race Asian-Americans in DePaul exhibit Medill Reports, Chicago 2013-04-18 Zhiyu Wang Medill Reports is written and produced by graduate journalism students at Northwestern University’s Medill school. In college, Wei Ming Dariotis used to want a T-shirt with “war baby” on the front and “love child” on the back. That…
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Opening 4/25: “War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art” DePaul Art Museum Chicago, Illinois 2013-04-16 CHICAGO — The DePaul Art Museum explores the construction of mixed-heritage Asian American identity in the United States with “War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art,” which opens April 25. “It gives visibility to the increasingly…