Tag: Velina Houston

  • “The Beiging of America, Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the Twenty-First Century,” takes on “race matters” and considers them through the firsthand accounts of mixed race people in the United States.

  • As part of last month’s Hapa Japan Festival 2017 was a screening of a pair of documentaries I was very interested in viewing: “Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: The Japanese War Brides” and “Rising Sun, Rising Soul.”

  • Chinese Mixed Race in Transnational Comparison (Sawyer Seminar IV) University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Center for Japanese Religions and Culture University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML), Room: 110C 2013-09-27, 13:00-17:00 PDT (Local Time) USC Conference Convenors: Duncan Williams, Associate Professor of Religion University of Southern…

  • Mixed “Race” in Southeast Asia?: Racial Theories in Competing Empires (Sawyer Seminar V) University of Southern California Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Center for Japanese Religions and Culture University Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML), East Asian Seminar Room (110C) 2013-10-12, 10:00-16:00 PDT (Local Time) USC Conference Convenors: Duncan Williams,…

  • Mixed Race: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Rafu Shimpo: Los Angeles Japanese Daily News 2011-06-19 Velina Hasu Houston Recently I was honored with a Loving Award from the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival (held June 11-12 at the Japanese American National Museum). The award and the meaning behind it has caused me to reflect on…

  • Hapa Japan Conference Center for Japanese Studies Institute of East Asian Studies University of California, Berkeley 2011-04-08 through 2011-04-09 Introduction Agenda Registration Tickets: New Vision Award Recipient Jero, A Conversation & Mini-Concert Introduction Hapa is a Hawaiian term that is now widely used to describe someone of mixed racial or ethnic heritage. A New York…