Category: Commentary
Critique of Review of “Proof of a Man” by Ratgirl
a Note: Pure?Justice?
Mixed & Objections – Thoughts
Mixed-Race Identity: Celebration?
“Babysan” by Bill Hume; and Japan Society Review by Kim Brandt
Pinayist –Psychology of Discrimination against Filippino/a Amerasians
The contours of colonialism and cultural identity, along with socio-economic class and discrimination, create the uneven and violent relations within nations. Citizenship is only a paper-worked body-armor when it lives everyday in social relations anywhere.
Within Every Woman . . . There is a Story: COMFORT WOMEN OF WWII–commentary
Within Every Woman . . . . . There is a Story. Yes. This is a very important film. I am glad that it is made.
The problem is ….. #2
In the present times, the nation-state and its corporate-military structures hold life into place with discourses. As humans, we respond to it. When we live in resistance to certain rules of language, concepts and positions in relation to identity and place and self and community, we find out that assimilating … Continue Reading The problem is ….. #2
LINK: Negritos of East Asia: As we Continue to Question Origins
Land, Blood, Humanity: Amerasian Contexts
Poem excerpt: “Farewell” by Agha Shahid Ali & my comments
Excerpt from poem: FAREWELL by great Kashmiri-American poet Agha Shahid Ali (February 4, 1949 — 8 December 2001) from his work: The Country Without a Post Office.
Black History Month: Some Quotes & Photos
Okinawa, Guam, the Pacific and the U.S. Military- 4,700 marines to go to Guam
A Blog Site: Critique Empire, Race and Transracial Adoption
The link I comment on in this post, is to a site called Transracial Abductees: A Critique of Intercountry Adoption (link at the end of this commentary). It is a particular perspective and gaze, a big-picture gaze, a gaze that includes histories of hierarchy in the global economy, global culture. … Continue Reading A Blog Site: Critique Empire, Race and Transracial Adoption