{"id":45690,"date":"2016-02-16T20:30:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T20:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45690"},"modified":"2016-04-01T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T15:59:07","slug":"rising-sun-rising-soul-mixed-race-japanese-of-african-descent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45690","title":{"rendered":"Rising Sun, “Rising Soul”: Mixed Race Japanese of African Descent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rising Sun, “Rising Soul”: Mixed Race Japanese of African Descent<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

University of Southern California, University Park Campus
\nLos Angeles, California
\nMontgomery Ross Fisher Building (MRF)
\nMontgomery Ross Fisher Auditorium (340)
\nFriday, 2016-02-26, 14:00-17:00 PST (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rising Soul<\/em> is a documentary film that explores the question, \u201cWhat is the impact of Afro-Japanese offspring and their origins as children of Japanese war brides<\/a>?\u201d At the end of World War II<\/a>, many Japanese women married American men of African descent and immigrated to the United States. While several stories examine the lives of Japanese war brides who married white Americans, none delve deeply into the history of Japanese war brides who married African Americans, and the journeys of their mixed-race children. Rising Soul<\/em> explores the transnational juncture of Japanese and African American cultures embodied in the African-descent offspring of Japanese war brides, women that not only faced the challenges of life in the U.S., but who also confronted the adversities of interracial marriages to African Americans \u2013 hardships that emanated not only from white society, but also from Japanese including other Japanese war brides married to whites, from African Americans, and from Asian Americans. The documentary seeks to de-mystify Asian and Black identity from a perspective that does not see it as an anomaly or a subset of Hapa<\/a> or Haafu identity but as something very real, primary, and organic to mixed race. Through interviews, glimpses into cultural phenomena, and historical artifacts, the film illuminates the complexity of that identity, and the betwixt and between and fusion that multiple heritages of color can foster. A panel will feature Rising Soul<\/em> producer Monique Yamaguchi<\/a>, screenwriter Velina Hasu Houston<\/a>; and subjects from the film including Linda Gant, Sumire Gant, Kiyoshi Houston, Curtiss Takada Rooks<\/a>, and Rika Houston. Excerpts from the film also will be screened.<\/p>\n

For more information and to RSVP, click here<\/a>.\u00a0View the flyer here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, \u201cWhat is the impact of Afro-Japanese offspring and their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1245,459,8,20,842],"tags":[502,1793,20167,23011,23014,23013,23012,5610,969],"class_list":["post-45690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-curtiss-takada-rooks","tag-japan","tag-kiyoshi-houston","tag-linda-gant","tag-monique-yamaguchi","tag-rika-houston","tag-sumire-gant","tag-velina-hasu-houston","tag-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45691,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45690\/revisions\/45691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}