Category: Hapa
OUT NOW! New Book by Walter Hamilton!
BBC clip: Visiting Activists working with Vietnamese Amerasian Struggles
Dream of the Water Children — Video Series Launch: Episode 1
This is the first in a series of ongoing video projects based on my personal family history, historical memory, Asia-Pacific postwar ethnography and the historical present. It is on my channel at YouTube.
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.
Praxis in Transnational Mixed Race/Space Studies Conference – Success!
Land, Blood, Humanity: Amerasian Contexts
Pearl S. Buck, Nobel Prize Winner and the Creation of an Amerasian Identity Category
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) is remembered for her many international literary prizes as well as her activism.
Photo: My Cousins and I: Nara 奈良県. Summer 1961
Academy Awards, Racism and Sayonara: Creating the White Pacific
Okinawa, Guam, the Pacific and the U.S. Military- 4,700 marines to go to Guam
Music Video: Vintage Japanese Movie Song: Mongrel Marie 混血児マリー
A Thinking Exercise: Questions on Inter-issue Social Justice Concerns
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.
Vintage Japanese Film – Trailer: Konketsuji Rika 混血児 リカ (1972)
Jero ジェロ: the African-American/Japanese Enka star
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
Dream of the Water Children: The Black Pacific 