Category: Article
“Cultural Bodies:” My Newest Article on the Hapa Japan site
Ancient Black China – Paco Taylor’s “Ancient Chinese Secret”
My Article: “Songs” on Hapa Japan site
New Article: “LABELS” on Re-Vamped HAPA JAPAN site
DISPLACEMENT – Everyone’s Postcolonial Condition
Marshall Islands Nuclear Displacements – Al Jazeera Article: Invisible and Ignored Oppressions by the U.S.
Podcast: “Violence and Memory” — My Discussion at As(I)Am project
LINK: Negritos of East Asia: As we Continue to Question Origins
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.
Article: Selling Mixed Race Babies: The Koreas Example
This article LINK from the Asia Times from July 17, 2002 by Aidan Foster-Carter entitled: Adopting, Adapting: Korean Orphans is an excellent beginning overview of how mixed-race bodies are used, especially in the context of orphanages.
Article: The Color of Fame in Asia – Mixed Race Entertainers in Thailand
Thailand mirrors many of the same phenomenon happening around much of Asia, related to US and European globalization/colonization histories in relation to colorism, Blackness and Whiteness.
Article: Amerasian children in Philippines are not recognized by the US government
Jeju Island and the US Military’s Illegal Base Construction
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
Dream of the Water Children: The Black Pacific 