Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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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.…
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Rivas awarded NEH Summer Stipends award to work on book News From Marshall University Huntington, West Virginia 2015-03-25 Dave Wellman, Director of Communications Telephone: (304) 696-7153 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. Zelideth Maria Rivas, an assistant professor of Japanese in Marshall University’s Department of Modern Languages, has been awarded a “very competitive” National Endowment for the…
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Miss Universe Japan — spectacle, race, and dreams Grits and Sushi: my musings on okinawa, race, militarization, and blackness 2015-03-19 Mitzi Uehara Carter The newly crowned Miss Universe Japan is Blackanese. No, she’s Japanese. No, she’s Haafu. Multiracial? Mixed? Japanese enough to represent Japan in a silly beauty contest? Ariana Miyamoto is from Nagasaki, Japan…
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The First Multiracial Miss Universe Japan Has Been Crowned NBC News 2015-03-17 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang The stunning Miss Nagasaki, Ariana Miyamoto, is the first multiracial contestant ever to be crowned Miss Universe Japan and will represent Japan in the 2015 Miss Universe pageant. Born in Japan to a Japanese mother and African American father, Miyamoto…
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The Face of Japan Is Changing, But Some Aren’t Ready Kokatu 2015-03-13 Brian Ashcraft Eriana Miyamoto Change happens slowly in Japan, but it does happen. You wake up one day, and things that weren’t possible years ago are happening today. Nowhere is that more evident than in the woman who will represent Japan in the…
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Occupation Babies: Mixed-Race Japanese Children Wonders & Marvels: A Community for Curious MInds who love History, its Odd Stories, and Good Reads 2015-02-28 James McGrath Morris, Guest Contributor One of the pleasures of researching a book is coming across something you don’t anticipate, something surprising that is fascinating to both the reader and the writer.…
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Growing Up As A Hafu In Japan GaijinPot 2014-08-23 Yumi Nakata Even though Japan is far more Westernized today than it has ever been, it still remains a very homogeneous country. The government has been trying to promote internationalization and also improve the English curriculum in schools but the process takes times and Japan is…
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Katanga’s forgotten people FRANCE 24 2010-03-16 Marlène Rabaud Arnaud Zajtman Like many mixed-race children in Congo, they were born of a Japanese father who came to work in the mines of Katanga in south-east of the country. Today, they accuse their fathers of wanting to kill them so as not to leave behind any traces when…
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‘Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye,’ by Marie Mutsuki Mockett Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2015-01-23 Richard Lloyd Parry Mockett, Marie Mutsuki, Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015), 316 pp. Among the many shocking things about tsunamis…
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How does one cope with overwhelming grief?