Category: De-colonization

Memory’s Destruction and its twists and turns, are present in many forms. The links between personal forgetting/remembering dynamics and social forgetting and remembering can also be linked to proximities to Dominant Nation-State maintenance and social engineering.

December 12, 2011

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

October 31, 2011

Okinawan Boys Scouts, the War, Internalized Oppressions: A Commentary

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"It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships."

–Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized
# Permanent link to Decolonizing Ourselves in the Present: Quote by Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized

October 16, 2011

Transpacific Sexism and Racism: The U.S. Amerasian Act of 1982 and 1987

October 9, 2011

W.E.B. Dubois speaks about Japan’s victory in Russo-Japanese War, US & European Colonialism; Japanese Imperialism and the Fight for Racial Equality

September 9, 2011

The problem is . . . . . . . . . . .

Mixed race? Biracial? Multiracial? Isn’t that a problem for you? Wasn’t it confusing? Hard?

“What does it mean to be haunted by a history of division and destruction, then to migrate and become assimilated into a country that had an active role in creating and maintaining that division?”
# Permanent link to Quote: On Korean women who married U.S. servicemen after WWII and the Korean War – by Grace M. Cho