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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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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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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Beauty pageants, blackface, and bigotry: Japan’s problems with racism The Wilson Quarterly Washington, D.C. 2015-07-23 Maya Wesby Photograph via Twitter Bearing a false belief of racial singularity and superiority, can Japanese culture ever embrace diversity in an ever-intertwining world? In most developed nations, issues of race occupy headlines and are components, unstated or overt, of…
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The beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself BBC News 2015-06-04 Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, Tokyo Correspondent At first sight even I am a little confused by Ariana Miyamoto. She is tall and strikingly beautiful. But the first thing that pops in to my head when I meet the newly crowned Miss Universe Japan is that…
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Black Miss Japan fights for race revolution’ Agence France Presse (via Yahoo) 2015-05-12 Alastair Himmer, Sport and Lifestyle Correspondent Ariana Miyamoto Tokyo (AFP) – Ariana Miyamoto entered the Miss Universe Japan beauty contest after a mixed-race friend committed suicide. And she endured abuse after winning the crown because of her skin colour. Far from being…
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The Hafu Nation: Five Voices Tokyo Weekender: Japan’s Premier English Magazine 2015-05-03 Kyle Mullin Velina Hasu Houston (Photo by Ken Matsui) Four members of the “Hafu Nation” share their experiences of living life from (at least) two perspectives. Ariana Miyamoto has proven that beauty is not merely skin deep. Although some of her detractors criticized…
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“I was born in this country and I grew up here, and I could only speak Japanese. This is my home country; it’s not a matter of ‘likes’ and ‘dislikes,’ ” she said simply. “Since my dad is an American, I look like a foreigner, so I used to think, ‘It’s cool having U.S. citizenship,’…
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Meeting Miss Universe Japan, the ‘half’ who has it all The Japan Times 2015-04-19 Bay McNeil Star-struck: Baye McNeil meets Miss Universe Japan, Ariana Miyamoto, at The Japan Times offices in Tokyo. | OLGA GARNOVA I felt an almost star-struck excitement at the chance to interview the newly crowned Miss Universe Japan, Ariana Miyamoto. I…
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The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah, and Japan’s Miss Universe Reveal Biracial Realities Will Wright: Cinéma, Style, Race and Politics Permeate Our Lives. That Fascinates Me. 2015-04-09 Will Wright Thanks in part to the changing of the guard at The Daily Show, biracial experiences and related politics have made headlines, and snuck into our minds. South…