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so up until recently i didn’t realize that there was a word to describe an asian or asian american person as “asian on the outside and white on the inside” like banana that’s so fucked up, why do people feel… Continue Reading →
While I know that its not necessarily academic to talk about if you liked or disliked a book but I was not the biggest fan of this novel and I think its mostly because the writing style was hard for… Continue Reading →
While the acting in Mississippi Masala was not the best, even with Denzel Washington, the movie itself had some nice messages about interracial relationships and the feelings of displacement of being forced from your home. The female protagonist, Mina, is… Continue Reading →
The novel for this week, We Should Never Meet by Aimee Phan, was a tough one to read. The eight stories, all told through varying timelines of the Vietnam War, linked together to show the heartbreaking results of battle torn… Continue Reading →
For me, this book probably hit the closest to home because of my connections to Filipino-American families, being my boyfriend’s family. He is part Filipino and part white, his father being a white man from the south while his mother… Continue Reading →
This week’s novel was Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung, centering around a Korean-American family in the midst of a familial crisis: the youngest daughter, Haejin (Hannah) has disappeared without a trace, and it is up to Jeehyun (Janie) to find… Continue Reading →
On Tuesday, we watched the documentary about a young Korean-American woman, Sam, who was adopted from South Korea as a baby by a white American family. Sam was raised in an all white household with two older brothers that were… Continue Reading →
Donald Duk centers around the titular character who is 11 almost 12 year old Chinese American boy living in San Fransisco’s Chinatown. Donald Duk struggles with his Chinese cultural identity and throughout the novel comes to terms with his lost… Continue Reading →
The field trip we took on October 3rd gave me an inside look to Asian American culture specifically located in Washington, where I was born and raised. It wasn’t even until I was in high school that I learned that… Continue Reading →
When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka, 2002, follows the anonymous story of a family torn apart and relocated from their home in Berkley, California, to Japanese internment camps in Nevada and Utah during World War II. One of… Continue Reading →