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Land, Blood, Humanity: Amerasian Contexts
Okinawa, Guam, the Pacific and the U.S. Military- 4,700 marines to go to Guam
AUDIO DOCUMENTARY: Korean International Adoption Business
South Korea has the somewhat dubious distinction of being the first known nation to allow adoption out of their country to other countries in an official manner from nation state to nation state. International Adoption out of Korea brings in between 15 to over 20 million dollars annually, according to … Continue Reading AUDIO DOCUMENTARY: Korean International Adoption Business
Music Video: Vintage Japanese Movie Song: Mongrel Marie 混血児マリー
Vintage Japanese Film – Trailer: Konketsuji Rika 混血児 リカ (1972)
Great Blog! Black Asian-Amerasian Diaspora Perspectives: BAAD
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.
Poem by San Francisco-based Blasian Hapa Poet Sabrena Taylor: Hair 2
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
Dream of the Water Children: The Black Pacific 