Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

As a half-white, half-Asian woman I find myself viewed by my white surroundings as a safe and relatable personification of their orientalist fascinations. I theorize that this intercalary role is a convenient tool for white people to mask racial tensions and guilt. By exhibiting acceptance to people of color who embody whiteness, such as in the “lighter is better” advertisement, in the model immigrant trope, as assumed interracial mediators to white people, and as westernized exotic sexual fantasies, white society attempts to maintain its dominance while exhibiting an image of tolerance.

Sophie Buzak-Achiam, “Stop using mixed race people as symbols of interracial unity to ease your white guilt,” Friktion, May 9, 2018. https://friktionmagasin.dk/stop-using-mixed-race-people-as-symbols-of-interracial-unity-to-ease-your-white-guilt-997208eb420b.

Definitive Hapa Japan Books To Launch In LA

Posted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, History, Media Archive, United States on 2017-02-26 23:37Z by Steven

Definitive Hapa Japan Books To Launch In LA

Kaya Press
Los Angeles, California
2017-02-15

Kaya Press is thrilled to announce the official publication of Hapa Japan: History Vol. 1 and Hapa Japan: History Vol. 2 edited by Duncan Ryūken Williams.

Described by Ruth Ozeki as “essential reading for all citizens of our transcultural, transnational, boundless, borderless, beautifully mixed-up world,” these volumes bring together scholarship on the rich historical and contemporary experiences and representations of global Hapa Japanese…

Read the entire press release here.

Tags: Akemi Johnson, Annmaria Shimabuku, Brian Burke-Gaffney, Christine Iijima Hall, Cynthia Nakashima, Duncan R. Williams, Duncan Ryûken Williams, Duncan Williams, Ellen Nakamura, Eveline Buchheim, Frédéric Roustan, Gary Leupp, Greg Robinson, Itsuko Kamoto, Jane H. Yamashiro, Japan, Jennifer Robertson, Kaya Press, Kent Ono, Kevin Fellezs, Lane Earns, Laura Kina, LeiLani Nishime, Lily Anne Yumi Welty Tamai, Masako Kudo, Mitzi Uehara-Carter, Nadia Kanagawa, Paul Christensen, Paul D. Barclay, Paul Spickard, Rebecca Chiyoko King-O’Riain, Sayuri Arai, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Tamaki Watarai, Tim Greer, Velina Hasu Houston, Walter Hamilton, Yuriko Yamanouchi, Zelideth María Rivas

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Hapa Japan: History (Volume 2)

Posted in Anthologies, Asian Diaspora, Books, Communications/Media Studies, History, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive on 2017-02-26 22:17Z by Steven

Hapa Japan: History (Volume 2)

Kaya Press
2017-02-28
400 pages
Paperback ISBN: 9781885030542

Edited by:

Duncan Ryūken Williams, Associate Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures
University of Southern California

The film Kiku and Isamu (1959) was one of the first cinematic depictions of mixed-race children in postwar Japan, telling the story of two protagonists facing abandonment by two different Black GI fathers and ostracism from Japanese society. Bringing together studies of the representations of the Hapa Japanese experience in culture, Hapa Japan: Identities & Representations (Volume 2) tackles everything from Japanese and American films like Kiku and Isamu to hybrid graphic novels featuring mixed-race characters. From Muslim Japanese-Pakistani children in a Tokyo public school to “Blasian” youth at the AmerAsian School close to a US military base in Okinawa, the Hapa experience is multiple, and its cultural representations accordingly are equally diverse. This anthology is the first publication to attempt to map this wide range of Hapa representations in film, art and society.

Tags: Akemi Johnson, Annmaria Shimabuku, Duncan R. Williams, Duncan Ryûken Williams, Frédéric Roustan, Jane H. Yamashiro, Japan, Kaya Press, Kent Ono, Kevin Fellezs, Laura Kina, LeiLani Nishime, Masako Kudo, Mitzi Uehara-Carter, Paul Christensen, Sayuri Arai, Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Tamaki Watarai, Tim Greer, Velina Hasu Houston, Zelideth María Rivas

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