Category: transpacific sexism
IMPORTANT NEW BOOK: Sanitized Sex (Sex Work & the Occupation of Japan)
Join ‘Japan’s War Brides and Their Legacies – 2018 Symposium’
At USC – Sawyer-Mellon Seminar: Transpacific Approach
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
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.
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.
Academy Awards, Racism and Sayonara: Creating the White Pacific
Vintage Japanese Film – Trailer: Konketsuji Rika 混血児 リカ (1972)
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
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.
Culture, Identity and Militarism: Okinawa snapshot comment
This is Part One of a commentary on the previous Post on the Okinawan Boy Scout photo.
Documentary: Left By The Ship
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