Tag: Rudy Guevarra

  • Written by scholars of various disciplines, the essays in this volume dig beneath the veneer of Hawai‘i’s myth as a melting pot paradise to uncover historical and complicated cross-racial dynamics.

  • Unlike the continental United States, Hawaii has no group that is the racial majority, and people can identify with multiple races and ethnicities over several generations. This is the norm, rather than an anomaly. Early social scientists, the tourist industry, and visitors credit this long history of mixing to the “aloha spirit,” or culture of…

  • Races, Ethnicities, and Cultures Mix More Freely Than Elsewhere in the U.S., But There Are Limits to the Aloha Spirit

  • Mixed Chicks Chat with Professor Rudy Guevarra Mixed Chicks Chat (Founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Episode: #261: Rudy Guevarra When: Wednesday, 2012-06-20, 21:00Z (17:00 EDT, 14:00 PDT) Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., Assistant Professor, Asian Pacific American Studies, School of Social Transformation,…

  • Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [FitzGerald Review] Journal of American History Volume 99, Issue 4 (2013) pages 1285-1286 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jas672 David FitzGerald, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, San Diego Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2012.…

  • The JCMRS inaugural issue will be released on Summer, 2013 Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies c/o Department of Sociology SSMS Room 3005 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California  93106-9430 E-Mail: socjcmrs@soc.ucsb.edu 2012-10-10 The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies (JCMRS) is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to developing the field of Critical Mixed…

  • “War Baby/Love Child” examines hybrid Asian American identity through a collection of essays, artworks, and interviews at the intersection of critical mixed race studies and contemporary art.

  • The Transpacific Shift in Mixed-Race Studies: Sawyer Seminar II University of Southern California, Univeristy Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) East Asian Seminar Room (110C) Friday, 2013-02-08, 10:00-16:00 PST (Local Time) Presented by the Center for Japanese Religions and Culture’s “Critical Mixed-Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminars Series…

  • Review: Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego Southern California Quarterly Volume 94, Number 4 (Winter 2012) pages 492-494 DOI: 10.1525/scq.2012.94.4.492 Alex Jacoby Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in Sun Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2012. 256 pp.) In the last decade there…

  • Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference 2012 Recap 2012-11-13 Camilla Fojas, (CMRS 2012 organizer) Associate Professor and Chair Latin American and Latino Studies DePaul University Laura Kina, (Mixed Roots Midwest 2012 co-organizer) Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Despite being sandwiched between Halloween, Superstorm Sandy, and the presidential elections,…