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April 10, 2019

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!

April 6, 2019

Writing, Green Tea, Anticipation

I began writing what has turned out to be my #book: #Dream of the #Water #Children: Memory and Morning in the #Black #Pacific, in 1983. … Continue Reading Writing, Green Tea, Anticipation

October 24, 2017

New Article: “LABELS” on Re-Vamped HAPA JAPAN site

  Hapa Japan is the premier source for studying, enjoying, reflecting on, and participating on the histories of Mixed-Race Japanese people around the world. I … Continue Reading New Article: “LABELS” on Re-Vamped HAPA JAPAN site

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September 29, 2011

In Memorium: My Mother − Kiyoko Kakinami Cloyd Nov. 2, 1929 (?)- Sept. 17, 2011

September 28, 2011

Song & Occupation Video: Quintessential Postwar Japan’s Women’s song: 星の流れに Hoshi no Nagare Ni

September 14, 2011

L.A. Times Article: Singer in Peru building a Center for Afro-Peruvians

September 12, 2011

Insooni 인순이 – Afro-Korean Singer from Korea sings “Climb Every Mountain”

September 11, 2011

Insooni 인순이, Black-Korean Singer Finds Former American GI mentor

September 10, 2011

Lou Jing 娄婧, Black-Shanghai-ese Singer, brings Afro-Chinese-ness into the limelight in 2009

September 9, 2011

Photo of Tachikawa Air Force Base gates with the cherry blossoms in bloom 1960.

September 9, 2011

Manilla: Liberated and Devastated. 1945

September 9, 2011

Article: Former Orphanage Resident Demian Akhan Revisits Japan 2009

Demian Akhan, a former resident of the Elizabeth Saunders Home for Mixed Race Children in Japan, who now resides in New York, visits again and talks to the Japan Times interviewer. For article – CLICK HERE.

September 9, 2011

The problem is . . . . . . . . . . .

Mixed race? Biracial? Multiracial? Isn’t that a problem for you? Wasn’t it confusing? Hard?

September 8, 2011

Excerpt from my book chapter: Kurombo 黒んぼ (Black Sambo)

September 8, 2011

Mixed-Japanese orphanage, June 1952

“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
September 7, 2011

Brown Babies of Germany: some parallels with Black-Asian histories

September 7, 2011

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.

September 7, 2011

How is History, Person, and Life to be respected without forgetting?

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Links

  • 76Crimes (Sexuality & Global Law)
  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Initiatives
  • Afro-Europe Blog
  • Amerasian Photo Project
  • Amerasian Voice (Viet-Amerasian Stories)
  • AVI – Adopted Vietnamese International
  • BAAD Perspectives (Black Asian-Amerasian Diaspora)
  • Barbara Jane Reyes: Poeta Y Diwata
  • Black German Cultural Society
  • Black Tokyo
  • Blasian Narrative blog
  • Brown Babies Project: The Mischlingskinder Story
  • Close the Base – OKINAWA
  • Free West Papua Campaign
  • Ghosts of Jeju
  • Global Viet DIaspora – Bauer
  • Grits and Sushi: Mitzi Uehara Carter
  • Guam Blog
  • Hafu Film Project ハーフ・プロジェクト
  • Half Korean
  • Hapa Project
  • Hazel B. Carvey: Brown Babies Phenomenon in Postwar Britain
  • Holt Survivor
  • Indo Project
  • Japan Sociology.com
  • Ju Myun Duck – Postwar Amerasians Photographer
  • Julie Thi Underhill
  • Kenji Chienshu Liu
  • Korean America Story.org
  • Korean War Baby
  • Korean War Children's Memorial
  • MatchaBook – Velina Hasu Houston
  • Me and Korea – Mosaic Tours
  • Mixed Heritage Center
  • Mixed Marrow
  • Mixed Roots Literary & Film Festival
  • Mu Films
  • NO BASE stories from KOREA
  • OIWW – Orphans International Worldwide
  • Pearl S. Buck Foundation
  • Save Jeju Island
  • Sound of Little Feet
  • Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
  • Ten Thousand Things: Positive Peace in the Asia-Pacific
  • The Adoption Project
  • The Daily Bastardette
  • Transnational Mixed Asians In-Between (TMABS)
  • Transracial Abductees
  • Turning East
  • USMVAW: U.S. Military Violence Against Women
  • Velina Hasu Houston
  • Vietnamese Amerasians: Cultural Survival Magazine
  • Waging Non-Violence
  • Watermelon Sushi

Resources

  • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Initiatives
  • Action to End Exploitation
  • Africana Age
  • Amerasian Foundation
  • Amerasian Research Network
  • Asia Pacific Journal – Japan Focus
  • Asian Nation
  • Australian Human Rights Commission
  • AVI – Adopted Vietnamese International
  • Center for Japanese Brazilian Studies: Centro de Estudos Nipo-Brasilerios
  • Children of the Vietnam War: Smithsonian Institute
  • Close the Base – OKINAWA
  • Critical Past Historical Film
  • Documents on the U.S. Occupation of Korean – National Archives
  • Filipinas in Prostitution Around U.S. Military Bases
  • Human Trafficking.org
  • INIRC: International Network for Interdisciplinary Research on Children Born of War
  • International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons: Pacific Perspective
  • Japan Air Raids Archives
  • Me and Korea – Mosaic Tours
  • Mixed Folks.com
  • Mixed Heritage Center
  • Mixed Race Studies.org
  • MOAD: Museum of the African Diaspora
  • National Association of Korean Americans
  • National Japanese American Historical Society
  • NO BASE stories from KOREA
  • Not For Sale Campaign
  • Occupation of Japan: Research Guide
  • OIWW – Orphans International Worldwide
  • Okinawa in Postwar Japanese Politics & Economy
  • Project Race – multiracial advocates
  • Queensland Library Archives – Australia
  • Save Jeju Island
  • Sexual Violence Research Initiative
  • South Korea: Country Studies
  • Ten Thousand Things: Positive Peace in the Asia-Pacific
  • The Adoption Project
  • The Daily Bastardette
  • USMVAW: U.S. Military Violence Against Women
  • Veterans for Peace
  • Waging Non-Violence
  • Women & the U.S. Military in East Asia: Foreign Policy in Focus
  • Women for Genuine Security

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