Category: U.S. military bases
Academy Awards, Racism and Sayonara: Creating the White Pacific
Okinawa, Guam, the Pacific and the U.S. Military- 4,700 marines to go to Guam
Article: Amerasian children in Philippines are not recognized by the US government
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
Jeju Island and the US Military’s Illegal Base Construction
Excerpt: “New Black”
"It is not easy to escape mentally from a concrete situation, to refuse its ideology while continuing to live with its actual relationships."
–Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized
# Permanent link to Decolonizing Ourselves in the Present: Quote by Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized
Article: U.S. military and East Asian governments work together for Sexploitation of Women
Song & Occupation Video: Quintessential Postwar Japan’s Women’s song: 星の流れに Hoshi no Nagare Ni
Insooni 인순이, Black-Korean Singer Finds Former American GI mentor
Photo of Tachikawa Air Force Base gates with the cherry blossoms in bloom 1960.
“What does it mean to be haunted by a history of division and destruction, then to migrate and become assimilated into a country that had an active role in creating and maintaining that division?”
# Permanent link to Quote: On Korean women who married U.S. servicemen after WWII and the Korean War – by Grace M. Cho