Category: Racism
Multiracing, Multiraciality, Power and Change
OUT NOW! New Book by Walter Hamilton!
Within Every Woman . . . There is a Story: COMFORT WOMEN OF WWII–commentary
Within Every Woman . . . . . There is a Story. Yes. This is a very important film. I am glad that it is made.
BBC clip: Visiting Activists working with Vietnamese Amerasian Struggles
The problem is ….. #2
In the present times, the nation-state and its corporate-military structures hold life into place with discourses. As humans, we respond to it. When we live in resistance to certain rules of language, concepts and positions in relation to identity and place and self and community, we find out that assimilating … Continue Reading The problem is ….. #2
Australia’s Occupation Babies of Postwar Japan: Walter Hamilton’s Study
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.
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.
Black History Month: Some Quotes & Photos
Academy Awards, Racism and Sayonara: Creating the White Pacific
A Thinking Exercise: Questions on Inter-issue Social Justice Concerns
Black Slaves in 16th-17th Century Japan: Nanban 南蛮
Short Comment / Thoughts on Social Justice, Generations & Memory
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.
Quick Thoughts: Amerasian? Black Nippon-jin? ブラック日本人
When people use labels, they are used in certain ways. They have certain meanings, certain meanings, certain trajectories, certain assumptions.
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.
Dream of the Water Children: The Black Pacific 