Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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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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Spotlight: Beneath Japan’s polite veneer lies secret codes of racial hatred aimed at minorities, foreigners China.org.cn (China Internet Information Center) State Council Information Office and the China International Publishing Group (CIPG), Beijing, China 2016-05-21 Xinhua News Agency Is Japan a gentle nation? For many people who have little knowledge about the island country or just…
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“Born With It” – Screening and Discussion with filmmaker Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, Jr. University of Southern California East Asian Studies Center University Park Campus Leavey Auditorium (LVL) 17 Tuesday, 2016-03-29, 16:15-17:45 PDT (Local Time) Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr., Filmaker “Born With It” follows the story of a 9-year-old Ghanaian-Japanese boy, Keisuke. Keisuke begins at a new school…
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A Blackanese Beauty Queen Contexts Volume 15, Number 1 (Winter 2016) pages 73-75 DOI: 10.1177/1536504216628844 M. Nakamura Lopez M. Nakamura Lopez is a writer living in Tokyo, Japan. She studies mixedness, migration, and transnational families. M. Nakamura Lopez on the new face of Miss Japan. Read the entire article here.
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Rising Sun, “Rising Soul”: Mixed Race Japanese of African Descent University of Southern California, University Park Campus Los Angeles, California Montgomery Ross Fisher Building (MRF) Montgomery Ross Fisher Auditorium (340) Friday, 2016-02-26, 14:00-17:00 PST (Local Time) Rising Soul is a documentary film that explores the question, “What is the impact of Afro-Japanese offspring and their…
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Preview of DREAM OF THE WATER CHILDREN by Wendy Cheng 2Leaf Press: A Small Press with Big Ideas! New York, New York 2016-01-18 Wendy Cheng, Assistant Professor School of Social Transformation Faculty Arizona State University A Black-Japanese Amerasian reflects on life in the present, with the traces of wars and their aftermaths. In Dream of…
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Both native and foreign: How being of mixed race affects Japanese students The Cavalier Daily Charlottesville, Virginia 2014-07-01 Emily Gorham I have now entered week five of my three month stay in Japan as an intern for the Ibaraki Christian University’s English department. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about what I’ve termed the…
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Mistura for the fans: performing mixed-race Japanese Brazilianness in Japan Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 36, Issue 6, 2015 pages 710-728 DOI: 10.1080/07256868.2015.1095714 Zelideth María Rivas, Assistant Professor of Japanese Department of Modern Languages Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia In this article, I examine fans’ consumption of mixed-race Japanese Brazilian female bodies in Japan. The article…
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Call for Papers: Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies 2130 Fulton Street San Francisco, California 2015-07-09 Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea, April 14-15, 2016 The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce the…