Category: African-American
Article: Amerasian children in Philippines are not recognized by the US government
Culture, Identity and Militarism: Part 2
Kokujo 黒女 or コク女, of Okinawa, also have their parallels in Japan and beginning to in South Korea. Not only, do the kokujo (women who date black-american men) form relationships with their desired gender object, a look is often adopted.
FILM: Brown Babies Project – the Black/white Biracial Children of Postwar Germany
Poem by San Francisco-based Blasian Hapa Poet Sabrena Taylor: Hair 2
Okinawan Boys Scouts, the War, Internalized Oppressions: A Commentary
Excerpt: “New Black”
Colonial Theory: Race & Gender Hierarchy = Hypodescent
Hypodescent: The ordering of people along a hierarchy of color, is prevalent in almost every society today, solidified by nation-state structures of power and form. In the ordering of color, the term for the ordering of people from the top that is lightest in color (white), and gradually lower to … Continue Reading Colonial Theory: Race & Gender Hierarchy = Hypodescent
Insooni’s Reunion with GI friend: A great Blog Post by Cloud USA
Conference Paper by Ariko Ikehara: Black Amerasian “Mixed” Space
Transpacific Sexism and Racism: The U.S. Amerasian Act of 1982 and 1987
W.E.B. Dubois speaks about Japan’s victory in Russo-Japanese War, US & European Colonialism; Japanese Imperialism and the Fight for Racial Equality
Buffalo Soldiers and Filipinas: Civl War African Americans, the Philippine War & Evangeline Buell
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
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.
