Category: Social Justice
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.
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.
It Takes Work
You cannot have social change or social justice, without changing the self in some way or a series of ways. You cannot change yourself very far, without changing society in some way or a series of ways.
Jeju Island and the US Military’s Illegal Base Construction
Colonial Theory: Race & Gender Hierarchy = Hypodescent
Hypodescent: The ordering of people along a hierarchy of color, is prevalent in almost every society today, solidified by nation-state structures of power and form. In the ordering of color, the term for the ordering of people from the top that is lightest in color (white), and gradually lower to … Continue Reading Colonial Theory: Race & Gender Hierarchy = Hypodescent
Transpacific Sexism and Racism: The U.S. Amerasian Act of 1982 and 1987
W.E.B. Dubois speaks about Japan’s victory in Russo-Japanese War, US & European Colonialism; Japanese Imperialism and the Fight for Racial Equality
The problem is . . . . . . . . . . .
Mixed race? Biracial? Multiracial? Isn’t that a problem for you? Wasn’t it confusing? Hard?
Social Justice Needs Solidarity. Solidarity needs Accountability, Healing and Commitments
Black Asians are not one race or peoples. Black Asian are not one culture, one idea, one group.
Dream of the Water Children: The Black Pacific 