Tag: Hyphen

  • An Interview with Poet Brian Komei Dempster Hyphen: Asian America Unabridged 2015-02-02 Jeffrey Thomas Leong, San Francisco Bay Area poet; 2014 graduate of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Writing program in poetry I first met Brian Komei Dempster in Winter 2000 as a student in his Kearny Street Workshop writing class, held…

  • Adopting The Asian in ‘Caucasian’: Korean Adoptees and White Privilege Hyphen: Asian America Unabridged 2015-01-20 Nicky Sa-eun Schildkraut My father remembers that when I first arrived, he’d wake up to me calling out “Abojee! Abojee!” in the middle of the night, the Korean word for father. As a little girl, those nights in my new…

  • Why Mixed with White isn’t White Hyphen: Asian America Unabrided 2014-07-22 Sharon H. Chang When I wrote my first post for Hyphen, “Talking Mixed-Race Identity with Young Children,” I was deliberately blunt about race. I wrote about how I don’t tell my multiracial son, who presents as a racial minority, that he’s white — but…

  • Talking Mixed-Race Identity with Young Children Hyphen—Asian Americans Unabridged 2014-05-06 Sharon H. Chang “Mom, am I White?” A few weeks ago, when I got this question from my four-year-old, I wasn’t sure what to say. Technically my son is “biracial” — but that label does him a severe representative injustice, because his bloodline is actually…