Militarized Mama Amerasia – an International Women’s Day Reflection
Today, according to a few sources, there are an estimated two million Amerasians–children and adults of local women across Asia who have been sired by United Statian military and civilian men and abandoned by the men. If we are to include Ameri-Pacifics–those born in the Pacific and South Seas Islands, the numbers would, of course, be higher. Often, in these stories, the harrowing and rough stories of Amerasians are told, and must be continued to be told. But the stories of the mothers, are backgrounded.
New PUBLISHING DATE for my Book
Well, as previously hinted, my book — Dream of the Water Children: Memory and Mourning in the Black Pacific 水子の夢 — will, once again, be a little late getting out. New target date for publication: Spring 2016.
VIDEO NEWS: Congolese-Japanese Children of Japanese Workers in the Congo: Survivors Tell
Speaking further about transcontinental racisms and sexisms that form through our internalizing of imperial and colonial mentalities:
ARTICLE: Vintage Japanese Movies about Mixed-Black Japanese
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
Transpacific Sexism and Racism: The U.S. Amerasian Act of 1982 and 1987
Between 1962-1975, an estimated 40,000 babies were born in Southeast Asia, who were fathered by U.S. servicemen.
ARTICLE: Viet-Blacks face hostility & exclusion in the historical present
Vo Van Dang, son of a Vietnamese sex-worker and African-American serviceman in 1971, in the height of the Vietnam war,
Kiku and Isamu キクとイサム – a 1959 classic movie about mixed Black Japanese brother and sister in postwar Japan
This is one of my mother and I’s favorite movies. It is entitled Kiku and Isamu (キクとイサム), which
