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Category: Postwar VIetnam

December 1, 2016

MY BOOK: Update! – ENTIRE PROOF going through!

March 9, 2016

Militarized Mama Amerasia – an International Women’s Day Reflection

February 1, 2016

New Video posted on YouTube: “BLACK PACIFIC ELEGY”

Here is the second installment of my video series. It is a visual poem.  Read, listen, feel, think. Hopefully you will be curious, look up information and terms you don’t quite know or understand. Be outraged?  Become more understanding? Curious? Watch this in HD for the best view! If you … Continue Reading New Video posted on YouTube: “BLACK PACIFIC ELEGY”

January 22, 2016

Controlling Amerasian Body-Minds: The American and French-Fathered Mixed-Race Children in Japan, Korea and Vietnam

February 10, 2014

At USC – Sawyer-Mellon Seminar: Transpacific Approach

January 17, 2014

It’s Official! My BOOK will be PUBLISHED – Fall 2014! (Now delayed until 2017)

It’s official! My Book will be published in the Fall of 2014 – by 2Leaf Press. I will keep everyone updated. I have provided the Vimeo introductory video here.  More will follow. While watching this video, there are two issues I want to mention. SORRY–THIS BOOK WILL BE DELAYED until … Continue Reading It’s Official! My BOOK will be PUBLISHED – Fall 2014! (Now delayed until 2017)

November 30, 2012

Film: Indochina – Traces of a Mother

September 29, 2012

Multiracing, Multiraciality, Power and Change

April 19, 2012

BBC clip: Visiting Activists working with Vietnamese Amerasian Struggles

March 20, 2012

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.

March 9, 2012

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.

December 3, 2011

Article: The Color of Fame in Asia – Mixed Race Entertainers in Thailand

Thailand mirrors many of the same phenomenon happening around much of Asia, related to US and European globalization/colonization histories in relation to colorism, Blackness and Whiteness.

October 23, 2011

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

October 5, 2011

Article: U.S. military and East Asian governments work together for Sexploitation of Women

September 7, 2011

ARTICLE: Viet-Blacks face hostility & exclusion in the historical present

RELEASE DATE: April 9, 2019 - by 2LEAF PRESS. Available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, University of Chicago Press. Soon at all major outlets.

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Links

  • 76Crimes (Sexuality & Global Law)
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Initiatives
  • Afro-Europe Blog
  • Amerasian Photo Project
  • Amerasian Voice (Viet-Amerasian Stories)
  • AVI – Adopted Vietnamese International
  • BAAD Perspectives (Black Asian-Amerasian Diaspora)
  • Barbara Jane Reyes: Poeta Y Diwata
  • Black German Cultural Society
  • Black Tokyo
  • Blasian Narrative blog
  • Brown Babies Project: The Mischlingskinder Story
  • Close the Base – OKINAWA
  • Free West Papua Campaign
  • Ghosts of Jeju
  • Global Viet DIaspora – Bauer
  • Grits and Sushi: Mitzi Uehara Carter
  • Guam Blog
  • Hafu Film Project ハーフ・プロジェクト
  • Half Korean
  • Hapa Project
  • Hazel B. Carvey: Brown Babies Phenomenon in Postwar Britain
  • Holt Survivor
  • Indo Project
  • Japan Sociology.com
  • Ju Myun Duck – Postwar Amerasians Photographer
  • Julie Thi Underhill
  • Kenji Chienshu Liu
  • Korean America Story.org
  • Korean War Baby
  • Korean War Children's Memorial
  • MatchaBook – Velina Hasu Houston
  • Me and Korea – Mosaic Tours
  • Mixed Heritage Center
  • Mixed Marrow
  • Mixed Roots Literary & Film Festival
  • Mu Films
  • NO BASE stories from KOREA
  • OIWW – Orphans International Worldwide
  • Pearl S. Buck Foundation
  • Save Jeju Island
  • Sound of Little Feet
  • Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
  • Ten Thousand Things: Positive Peace in the Asia-Pacific
  • The Adoption Project
  • The Daily Bastardette
  • Transnational Mixed Asians In-Between (TMABS)
  • Transracial Abductees
  • Turning East
  • USMVAW: U.S. Military Violence Against Women
  • Velina Hasu Houston
  • Vietnamese Amerasians: Cultural Survival Magazine
  • Waging Non-Violence
  • Watermelon Sushi

Resources

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Initiatives
  • Action to End Exploitation
  • Africana Age
  • Amerasian Foundation
  • Amerasian Research Network
  • Asia Pacific Journal – Japan Focus
  • Asian Nation
  • Australian Human Rights Commission
  • AVI – Adopted Vietnamese International
  • Center for Japanese Brazilian Studies: Centro de Estudos Nipo-Brasilerios
  • Children of the Vietnam War: Smithsonian Institute
  • Close the Base – OKINAWA
  • Critical Past Historical Film
  • Documents on the U.S. Occupation of Korean – National Archives
  • Filipinas in Prostitution Around U.S. Military Bases
  • Human Trafficking.org
  • INIRC: International Network for Interdisciplinary Research on Children Born of War
  • International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons: Pacific Perspective
  • Japan Air Raids Archives
  • Me and Korea – Mosaic Tours
  • Mixed Folks.com
  • Mixed Heritage Center
  • Mixed Race Studies.org
  • MOAD: Museum of the African Diaspora
  • National Association of Korean Americans
  • National Japanese American Historical Society
  • NO BASE stories from KOREA
  • Not For Sale Campaign
  • Occupation of Japan: Research Guide
  • OIWW – Orphans International Worldwide
  • Okinawa in Postwar Japanese Politics & Economy
  • Project Race – multiracial advocates
  • Queensland Library Archives – Australia
  • Save Jeju Island
  • Sexual Violence Research Initiative
  • South Korea: Country Studies
  • Ten Thousand Things: Positive Peace in the Asia-Pacific
  • The Adoption Project
  • The Daily Bastardette
  • USMVAW: U.S. Military Violence Against Women
  • Veterans for Peace
  • Waging Non-Violence
  • Women & the U.S. Military in East Asia: Foreign Policy in Focus
  • Women for Genuine Security

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