My Book is OUT NOW!
You can get the book at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and University of Chicago Press and later at all major booksellers, university bookstores, libraries, and … Continue Reading My Book is OUT NOW!
Jeju Island and the US Military’s Illegal Base Construction
Okinawan Boys Scouts, the War, Internalized Oppressions: A Commentary
Excerpt: “New Black”
"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
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
Demilitarized Zones: Excerpt from a poem by Doug Rawlings
Stanza from: Demilitarized Zones by Doug Rawlings They came to torture us these children of the dust to torture us with their eyes with their lies with the hatred in their eyes the ice in their smiles the wretchedness of their lives
Insooni’s Reunion with GI friend: A great Blog Post by Cloud USA
The Aeta of the Philippines Continue to Resist Multiple Oppressions
Conference Paper by Ariko Ikehara: Black Amerasian “Mixed” Space
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"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
Transpacific Sexism and Racism: The U.S. Amerasian Act of 1982 and 1987
Excerpt: Strawberry Shakes, burgers and fries at the Tachikawa Air Force Base Snack Bar in the late 60s to 1970
Manuscript seeking publisher
My book: Dream of the Water Children, dream of the water children, is in final edit. I am seeking a publisher and/or agent. Visit my website I am also doing readings, multimedia presentations, facilitation of meetings and consulting.
Dream of the Water Children: The Black Pacific 