Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Tag: Fred Wah
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Hybrid Details: Honoring Fred Wah: with Fred Wah, Wo Chan, Mark Nowak and Jeff Derksen Asian American Writers’ Workshop 112 West 27th Street, 6th Floor New York, New York 11366 Wednesday, 2016-04-13, 19:00 EDT (Local Time) Poet Fred Wah is a living legend in Canada, but he remains woefully under-read in this country. To remedy…
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Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1962–1991 Talonbooks 2015 640 pages 6 W x 9 H inches Hardcover ISBN 13: 9780889229471; ISBN 10: 0889229473 Fred Wah Edited and Introduction by: Jeff Derksen, Associate Professor of English Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Fred Wah’s career has spanned six decades and a range of formal styles…
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A short interview with Fred Wah Jacket2 2015-03-05 Rob McLennan Fred Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939, but he grew up in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. He studied music and English literature at the University of British Columbia in the early 1960s where he was one of the founding…
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2014 National Poetry Month Poem of the Day: Fred Wah Turnstone Press Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2014-04-16 “Waiting for Saskatchewan,” the title poem for the book, arose out of an event that occurred in Nelson, BC on a winter night in the early ’80s. We had been anticipating an exhibition of art from Saskatchewan about to…
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Waiting For Saskatchewan Turnstone Press 1985 96 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0888011008 Fred Wah Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry 1985 Wah interprets memory—a journey to China and Japan, his father’s experience as a Chinese immigrant in small Canadian towns, images from childhood—to locate the influence of genealogy. The procession of narrative reveals Wah’s…
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Hapa-palooza 2014 celebrates three giants of mixed-heritage Vancouver Observer Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2014-09-28 Jordan Yerman An artist, a scientist, and a poet: Hapa-palooza honours Kip Fulbeck, Ann Makosinski, and Fred Wah. “What am I? I’m what’s on your spoon when you pull it out of the melting pot!!” So writes a subject in California-based…
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“I’m quite interested in thinking about that notion of the hyphen. That little thing that’s in-between. Let’s say, “Chinese-Canadian,” or “Japanese-Canadian.” I like to challenge those two poles, those two hegemonous poles who want to claim a part of me. Because I feel like I’ve lived in-between and I like the in-between. It’s a place…
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Anne Marie Nakagawa’s documentary examines what it means to have a background of mixed ancestries that cannot be easily categorized.
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Appointment of a new Parliamentary Poet Laureate Parliament of Canada 2011-12-20 December 20, 2011 (Ottawa) – The Speaker of the Senate, the Honourable Noël A. Kinsella, and the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Honourable Andrew Scheer, today announced the appointment of Fred Wah as Canada’s next Parliamentary Poet Laureate [2011-2013], effective immediately. Mr.…