Tag: Duncan R. Williams

  • Los Angeles — The current political moment, with its upwelling of nationalism and xenophobia, has a repellent taste, like a mouthful of citrus pith, all bitter and white. How bracing, then, to escape in late February to Los Angeles, city of the future, for something called the Hapa Japan Festival, a “celebration of mixed-race and…

  • Kaya Press is thrilled to announce the official publication of Hapa Japan: History Vol. 1 and Hapa Japan: History Vol. 2 edited by Duncan Ryūken Williams.

  • The film Kiku and Isamu (1959) was one of the first cinematic depictions of mixed-race children in postwar Japan, telling the story of two protagonists facing abandonment by two different Black GI fathers and ostracism from Japanese society. Bringing together studies of the representations of the Hapa Japanese experience in culture, Hapa Japan: Identities &…

  • The history and experiences of mixed-race Japan have long remained almost invisible in a country that believes in its own myths of homogeneity, despite a history that extends backwards to the 8th-century emperor Kammu Tenno (who was part Korean) through to Japan’s first female physician (part German) during the 19th century, and forward to the…

  • “Global Mixed Race,” the 3rd biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, was held at DePaul University in Chicago Nov 13-15, 2014. News from the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference 2014-11-18 Camilla Fojas, Vincent de Paul Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies DePaul University Photograph by Ken Tanabe A big thank you to the over…

  • Chinese Mixed Race in Transnational Comparison (Sawyer Seminar IV) University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Center for Japanese Religions and Culture University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML), Room: 110C 2013-09-27, 13:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time) USC Conference Convenors: Duncan Williams, Associate Professor of Religion University of Southern…

  • Mixed “Race” in Southeast Asia?: Racial Theories in Competing Empires (Sawyer Seminar V) University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Center for Japanese Religions and Culture University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML), East Asian Seminar Room (110C) 2013-10-12, 10:00-16:00 PDT (Local Time) USC Conference Convenors: Duncan Williams,…

  • FILM: Mixed-Race People Tell Their Stories in ‘Hafu’ The Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2013-05-03 J.K. Yamamoto, Rafu Staff Writer “Hafu,” a new documentary about mixed-race people in Japan, will be screened Wednesday, May 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Japanese American National Museum, First and Central in Little Tokyo, as part of…

  • The Evolution of Mixed-Race Historiography and Theory: Inaugural Sawyer Seminar University of Southern California, Univeristy Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) East Asian Seminar Room (110C) Friday, 2013-01-18, 14:00-17:00 PST (Local Time) Presented by the Center for Japanese Religions and Culture’s “Critical Mixed-Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminars…

  • The Transpacific Shift in Mixed-Race Studies: Sawyer Seminar II University of Southern California, Univeristy Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) East Asian Seminar Room (110C) Friday, 2013-02-08, 10:00-16:00 PST (Local Time) Presented by the Center for Japanese Religions and Culture’s “Critical Mixed-Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminars Series…