Month: September 2011
In Memorium: My Mother − Kiyoko Kakinami Cloyd Nov. 2, 1929 (?)- Sept. 17, 2011
Song & Occupation Video: Quintessential Postwar Japan’s Women’s song: 星の流れに Hoshi no Nagare Ni
L.A. Times Article: Singer in Peru building a Center for Afro-Peruvians
Insooni 인순이 – Afro-Korean Singer from Korea sings “Climb Every Mountain”
Insooni 인순이, Black-Korean Singer Finds Former American GI mentor
Lou Jing 娄婧, Black-Shanghai-ese Singer, brings Afro-Chinese-ness into the limelight in 2009
Photo of Tachikawa Air Force Base gates with the cherry blossoms in bloom 1960.
Manilla: Liberated and Devastated. 1945
Article: Former Orphanage Resident Demian Akhan Revisits Japan 2009
Demian Akhan, a former resident of the Elizabeth Saunders Home for Mixed Race Children in Japan, who now resides in New York, visits again and talks to the Japan Times interviewer. For article – CLICK HERE.
The problem is . . . . . . . . . . .
Mixed race? Biracial? Multiracial? Isn’t that a problem for you? Wasn’t it confusing? Hard?
Excerpt from my book chapter: Kurombo 黒んぼ (Black Sambo)
Mixed-Japanese orphanage, June 1952
“What does it mean to be haunted by a history of division and destruction, then to migrate and become assimilated into a country that had an active role in creating and maintaining that division?”
# Permanent link to Quote: On Korean women who married U.S. servicemen after WWII and the Korean War – by Grace M. Cho
Brown Babies of Germany: some parallels with Black-Asian histories
Social Justice Needs Solidarity. Solidarity needs Accountability, Healing and Commitments
Black Asians are not one race or peoples. Black Asian are not one culture, one idea, one group.
Dream of the Water Children: The Black Pacific 