Tag: Nina Davaluri

  • Miss Universe Japan — spectacle, race, and dreams Grits and Sushi: my musings on okinawa, race, militarization, and blackness 2015-03-19 Mitzi Uehara Carter The newly crowned Miss Universe Japan is Blackanese. No, she’s Japanese. No, she’s Haafu. Multiracial? Mixed? Japanese enough to represent Japan in a silly beauty contest? Ariana Miyamoto is from Nagasaki, Japan…