Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

One thing that I learned while doing all my research was that there was a lot that I hadn’t learned in school. For instance, I learned the Southeast was just a empty wilderness when the settlers arrived at Jamestown. But in my research I discovered that it was crawling with people. Hundreds of thousands of natives. If you look at the maps of their villages they’re all over the place. There were also a lot of European and Africans who were there for various reasons and they were mostly young men, so they were mixing and melding with the native women. So the earliest years of our country, the population was quite mixed. I mean the whole melting pot idea didn’t come in with the nineteenth century; it was here all along. So, these earliest people, as Britain won out over Spain and Portugal, everyone wanted to be English, so everybody denied the rest of their heritage.

Lisa Alther, “Author Explores Racial Mixing In New Historical Novel,” VPR News, Vermont Public Radio, (March, 14, 2012): 00:01:45-00:02:45. http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/93768/author-explores-racial-mixing-in-new-historical-no/.

Negotiating Identities: Mixed Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea

Posted in Anthropology, Asian Diaspora, History, Live Events, Media Archive, Social Science, United States on 2016-04-14 02:11Z by Steven

Negotiating Identities: Mixed Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea

University of San Francisco
McLaren Complex – MC 250
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, California 94117-1080
2016-04-14 through 2016-04-15

The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce its spring symposium Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea, a conference to be held at the University of San Francisco on Thursday and Friday, April 14-15, 2016.

The highlight of the conference will be a keynote address by Emma Teng, Professor of History and Asian Civilizations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

With this conference, the Center plans to provide a forum for academic discussions and the sharing of the latest research on the history and life experiences of mixed-race individuals in China, Japan, and Korea. The conference is designed to promote greater understanding of the cross-cultural encounters that led to the creation of interracial families and encourage research that examines how mixed-race individuals living in East Asia have negotiated their identities…

For more information and to register, click here.

Tags: Angharad Fletcher, Center for Asia Pacific Studies, China, Claire Seungeun Lee, Dana Nakano, Emma J. Teng, Emma Jinhua Teng, Emma Teng, Evelyn Rodriguez, Hwa-Ji Shin, James Zarsadiaz, Japan, Ji-Hyun Ahn, Kaori Mori-Want, Keiko Yamanaka, Korea, Leslie Helm, Nadine Attewell, Onjung Joy Yang, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, University of San Francisco, Vicky Lee, William Puck Brecher

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Hapa Japan Conference

Posted in Asian Diaspora, Live Events, Media Archive, United States on 2011-03-06 04:41Z by Steven

Hapa Japan Conference

Center for Japanese Studies
Institute of East Asian Studies
University of California, Berkeley
2011-04-08 through 2011-04-09

Introduction

Hapa is a Hawaiian term that is now widely used to describe someone of mixed racial or ethnic heritage. A New York Times article cites that just within the United States, one in seven marriages are now between people from different racial/ethnic backgrounds.

The Center for Japanese Studies, along with the Hapa Japan Database Project and All Nippon Airways, will host the Hapa Japan Conference on April 8th and 9th, featuring specialists in the study of mixed-race Japanese history, identity, and representation. Topics range from the history of mixed-race Japanese in the 1500s, part-Japanese communities in Australia, to the exploration of identity and representation through story-telling, films, and a photo-exhibit. For more information, please reference the conference agenda or contact cjs-events@berkeley.edu.

Tags: Annmaria Shimabuku, Ariko Ikehara, Center for Japanese Studies, Christine Iijima Hall, Cynthia Nakashima, Duncan R. Williams, Duncan Ryûken Williams, Duncan Williams, Gary Leupp, Jero, Jerome Charles White, John Lie, Keiko Yamanaka, Kip Fulbeck, Lily Anne Yumi Welty, Marcia Y. Lise, Marcia Yumi Lise, Michael Omi, Mitzi Uehara-Carter, Natalie M. Willer, Natalie Maya Willer, Paul R. Spickard, Paul Spickard, Rebecca Chiyoko King-O'Riain, Rebecca King O'Riain, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Teresa Williams-Len, University of California at Berkeley, Velina H. Houston, Velina Hasu Houston, Velina Houston, Wei Ming Dariotis, Yuriko Yamanouchi

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