Category: Racism
Vintage Japanese Film – Trailer: Konketsuji Rika 混血児 リカ (1972)
Quote: Adaptations of Racism and the Pacific War’s aftermath – “War Without Mercy”
“As the war years themselves changed over into an era of peace between Japan and the Allied powers, the shrill racial rhetoric of the early 1940s revealed itself to be surprisingly adaptable. . . . . . . .
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
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.
VIDEO NEWS: Congolese-Japanese Children of Japanese Workers in the Congo: Survivors Tell
Vimeo & Article: China in Africa – (Post)Colonial Relations as Transcontinental Racism and Sexism
Great Blog! Black Asian-Amerasian Diaspora Perspectives: BAAD
Short Comment: Brown Babies, Denial & the International Order of Race
Many books and articles and blogposts, that mention racism in Japan, Korea and the Philippines, Vietnam, point to the racism of these countries, against mixed-black folk and black persons.
ARTICLE: Vintage Japanese Movies about Mixed-Black Japanese
Article: Amerasian children in Philippines are not recognized by the US government
Culture, Identity and Militarism: Part 2
Kokujo 黒女 or コク女, of Okinawa, also have their parallels in Japan and beginning to in South Korea. Not only, do the kokujo (women who date black-american men) form relationships with their desired gender object, a look is often adopted.
Culture, Identity and Militarism: Okinawa snapshot comment
This is Part One of a commentary on the previous Post on the Okinawan Boy Scout photo.
FILM: Brown Babies Project – the Black/white Biracial Children of Postwar Germany
Quote by John Dower & my comments: Racism, the Pacific War and thinking through complexities
“The problem of racism is often approached as if it were a one-way street named White Supremacism. That is understandable, since whites themselves coined the phrase, imposed their supremacy over most of the globe and most of the darker races, and spent over four centuries writing about the inferiority of … Continue Reading Quote by John Dower & my comments: Racism, the Pacific War and thinking through complexities
Jeju Island and the US Military’s Illegal Base Construction
"In fact, to convince Americans of their superiority over the Filipinos, demonstrate the savagery and uncivilized nature of Filipinos, and rationalize their civilization and benevolent intention in the Philippines, the United States brought over 1,100 Filipinos to the St. Louis World's Fair in 1902 and sequestered them in what was called “The Philippine Reservation. . . .”
# Permanent link to Quote: US Imperialism & the Philippines at the World’s Fair 1902
Dream of the Water Children: The Black Pacific 