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
Post Korean War, Black-American G.I.s prepare Korean orphans for transition to the U.S.
