Category: Amerasian アメラジアン
Poem by San Francisco-based Blasian Hapa Poet Sabrena Taylor: Hair 2
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
Demilitarized Zones: Excerpt from a poem by Doug Rawlings
Stanza from: Demilitarized Zones by Doug Rawlings They came to torture us these children of the dust to torture us with their eyes with their lies with the hatred in their eyes the ice in their smiles the wretchedness of their lives
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
Buffalo Soldiers and Filipinas: Civl War African Americans, the Philippine War & Evangeline Buell
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
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?
Dream of the Water Children: The Black Pacific 