Category: Racism
Map of an Onion: Kenji Liu’s exquisite cultural-political, intimate Poetry
“Babysan” by Bill Hume; and Japan Society Review by Kim Brandt
Human Zoos: Subconscious Global Color Lines
Blog-post by Mark Makino – on the Japanese term: “Gaikoku-Jin” which translates: “Outsider-foreigner”
Mark Makino‘s post on the embedded aspects of race, nation, colonialism, and Japanese identity in the term: Gaikoku-Jin (Outsider-Foreigner): Foreign? Western? White? Non-Japanese? Occidental proboscis monsters? https://futurealisreal.wordpress.com/2016/09/07/foreign-western-white-non-japanese-occidental-proboscis-monsters/
Black, Yellow, White in Japan and Asia
Young Black-Japanese Volleyball
Now Showing in Theaters: うまれつき (Born With It)
A Black-Japanese student enters a Japanese school. The Japanese students are amazed, curious, condescending, afraid, finding ways to make him outcast. This Short Film, written and directed by Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, Jr., shines a lens onto a small town, and gives a picture of how Japanese-mix children and people, and black-mixed people and … Continue Reading Now Showing in Theaters: うまれつき (Born With It)
Mark Makino: Haafu pt.3: lifeboats
Japan Entertainment Magazine Interview
In Order to Do Justice
Militarized Mama Amerasia – an International Women’s Day Reflection
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”
Controlling Amerasian Body-Minds: The American and French-Fathered Mixed-Race Children in Japan, Korea and Vietnam
Marshall Islands Nuclear Displacements – Al Jazeera Article: Invisible and Ignored Oppressions by the U.S.
Black-Korean Michelle Lee 이미쉘 – Without You – Acoustic Version – Interracial Relations
Young Black-Korean Pop singer Michelle Lee 이미쉘 that I introduced to you with her stunning debut music video of Without You, which boldly speaks back to racism against her, is shown here with a recent Acoustic Version of the same song, and sung in English. One may not notice, but in … Continue Reading Black-Korean Michelle Lee 이미쉘 – Without You – Acoustic Version – Interracial Relations
Dream of the Water Children: The Black Pacific 