Tag: Nicole Rabin

  • [Kip] Fulbeck’s book accomplishes its goal of bringing awareness about Hapas to themselves and to the larger society. It creates a recognizable space for a particular group of mixed-race people that asserts itself against the traditional racial paradigm dominated by a logic of monoraciality, expands race beyond a black/white racial line, and sutures personal narrative…

  • Excursus on “Hapa”; or the Fate of Identity Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 3 (2012): Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature 11 pages Nicole Myoshi Rabin University of Hawai‘i, Manoa When I was growing up the license plate on my mom’s Dodge minivan read: R3HAPAS. My mom explained to my sister, brother,…

  • Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 3 (2012): Special Issue: Mixed Heritage Asian American Literature Table of Contents Introduction to Volume III—Wei Ming Dariotis The AALDP Interview Smoke and Flowers: An Interview with Olivia Boler—Wei Ming Dariotis Articles American Orientalism and Cosmopolitan Mixed Race: Early Asian American…

  • In response to perceived invisibility within a black/white racial paradigm governed by hypodescent, various multiracial people have begun to speak out against a lack of recognition of their multiplicitous identities. Along with state recognition (i.e., the 2000 census), many of these multiracial identity activists desire a sense of community built around racial multiplicity.

  • Nicole Myoshi Rabin to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (Founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: Nicole Myoshi Rabin When: Wednesday, 2012-04-25, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT) Nicole Myoshi Rabin, Instructor of…

  • True Blood: The Vampire as a Multiracial Critique on Post-Race Ideology Journal of Dracula Studies Number 12 (2010) 19 pages Nicole Myoshi Rabin, Instructor of Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies Emerson College, Boston. Massachusetts In the Western consciousness there has been a long tradition of the associations between race and evil.  According to Celia R.…

  • Interrogating Identity Construction: Bodies versus Community in Cynthia Kadohata’s In the Heart of the Valley of Love Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 1 (2010) pages 61-69 Nicole Myoshi Rabin, Instructor of Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies Emerson College, Boston. Massachusetts In an interview for the journal MELUS, Hsiu-chuan Lee claims that Cynthia Kadohata…