Category: Afro-Japanese
It’s Official! My BOOK will be PUBLISHED – Fall 2014! (Now delayed until 2017)
It’s official! My Book will be published in the Fall of 2014 – by 2Leaf Press. I will keep everyone updated. I have provided the Vimeo introductory video here. More will follow. While watching this video, there are two issues I want to mention. SORRY–THIS BOOK WILL BE DELAYED until … Continue Reading It’s Official! My BOOK will be PUBLISHED – Fall 2014! (Now delayed until 2017)
Assimilating the Black Japanese — Japan and the US: Reflections
Blackanese Raptivist: Aisha Fukushima
VIDEO: “B-Style” – Blackness in Japan 2009 to the Present – Reflections
KARTIKA REVIEW: my poem is published in Latest Issue!
One of the best Asian-American literary journals in the United States is The Kartika Review. The Spring 2012 issue was just released, with my first published poem entitled: For Kiyoko, Epitaph/Chikai published in the issue. It is a poem dedicated to my mother, who just passed away this past September.
Music Video: Vintage Japanese Movie Song: Mongrel Marie 混血児マリー
Vintage Japanese Film – Trailer: Konketsuji Rika 混血児 リカ (1972)
Jero ジェロ: the African-American/Japanese Enka star
VIDEO NEWS: Congolese-Japanese Children of Japanese Workers in the Congo: Survivors Tell
Great Blog! Black Asian-Amerasian Diaspora Perspectives: BAAD
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.
Poem by San Francisco-based Blasian Hapa Poet Sabrena Taylor: Hair 2
Excerpt: “New Black”
Transpacific Sexism and Racism: The U.S. Amerasian Act of 1982 and 1987
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?