Mixed Race Studies

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  • Dream of the Water Children: Memory and Mourning in the Black Pacific

    Fredrick D. Kakinami Cloyd’s debut, “Dream of the Water Children: Memory and Mourning in the Black Pacific,” is a lyrical and compelling memoir about a son of an African American father and a Japanese mother who has spent a lifetime being looked upon with curiosity and suspicion by both sides of his ancestry and the…

  • The Mix: Conversations with Artists…Between Races

    “In The Mix: Conversations with Artists…Between Races” by Dmae Roberts is a radio exploration of Mixed Race. Through the voices of artists who have dedicated their lives to building bridges and bringing to light interracial issues and themes, Roberts takes us on a journey to understanding what means to be of Mixed Race.

  • Red and Yellow, Black and Brown: Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies

    “Red and Yellow, Black and Brown” gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. The chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political situations of mixed race people who have links to…

  • But Still, Like Air, I’ll Rise

    Don’t write about people of color. Don’t blend Eastern and Western theater aesthetics. These were things that were said to me when I began making art for the stage.

  • Definitive Hapa Japan Books To Launch In LA

    Kaya Press is thrilled to announce the official publication of Hapa Japan: History Vol. 1 and Hapa Japan: History Vol. 2 edited by Duncan Ryūken Williams.

  • Hapa Japan: History (Volume 2)

    The film Kiku and Isamu (1959) was one of the first cinematic depictions of mixed-race children in postwar Japan, telling the story of two protagonists facing abandonment by two different Black GI fathers and ostracism from Japanese society. Bringing together studies of the representations of the Hapa Japanese experience in culture, Hapa Japan: Identities &…

  • Mixed Student Union Hosts Fourth Annual Heritage Conference

    Mixed Student Union Hosts Fourth Annual Heritage Conference Pacific Ties University of California, Los Angeles 2016-05-13 Ayesha Sheikh UCLA’s Mixed Student Union (MSU) hosted their fourth annual Mixed Heritage Conference on April 30 in the James West Alumni Center. The organization’s goal for hosting the conference on campus, according to the organization’s co-director Ariel Pezner,…

  • Rising Sun, “Rising Soul”: Mixed Race Japanese of African Descent

    Rising Sun, “Rising Soul”: Mixed Race Japanese of African Descent University of Southern California, University Park Campus Los Angeles, California Montgomery Ross Fisher Building (MRF) Montgomery Ross Fisher Auditorium (340) Friday, 2016-02-26, 14:00-17:00 PST (Local Time) Rising Soul is a documentary film that explores the question, “What is the impact of Afro-Japanese offspring and their…

  • The Hafu Nation: Five Voices

    The Hafu Nation: Five Voices Tokyo Weekender: Japan’s Premier English Magazine 2015-05-03 Kyle Mullin Velina Hasu Houston (Photo by Ken Matsui) Four members of the “Hafu Nation” share their experiences of living life from (at least) two perspectives. Ariana Miyamoto has proven that beauty is not merely skin deep. Although some of her detractors criticized…

  • Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age

    Mixed Race 3.0: Risk and Reward in the Digital Age USC Annenberg Press 2015-01-30 113 pages ISBN: 9781625175564 Edited by: Ulli K. Ryder Department of Gender and Women’s Studies University of Rhode Island Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor Annenberg School for Communication and Jounalism University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Have you been…