War baby/love child: mixed race Asian American art

2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (12) ◽  
pp. 50-6562-50-6562
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
American Art ◽  
Mixed Race

The Challenges of Displaying “Asian American”: Curatorial Perspectives and Critical Approaches

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-32
Author(s):  
ShiPu Wang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
American Art ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Racial Demographics

This essay delineates the issues concerning AAPI art exhibitions from a curator’s perspective, particularly in response to the changing racial demographics and economics of the past decades. A discussion of practical, curatorial problems offers the reader an overview of the obstacles and reasons behind the lack of exhibitions of AAPI works in the United States. It is the author’s hope that by understanding the challenges particular to AAPI exhibitions, community leaders, and patrons will direct future financial support to appropriate museum operations, which in turn will encourage more exhibitions and research of the important artistic contribution of AAPI artists to American art.

“Fair” Bianca and “Brown” Kate: Shakespeare and the Mixed-Race Family in José Esquea's The Taming of the Shrew

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Author(s):  
PATRICIA AKHIMIE
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Stages Of Development ◽  
New Production ◽  
The World

This essay explores the world of a new production of The Taming of the Shrew, still in the earliest stages of development, that will employ non-traditional casting and re-envision Katharina (“as brown in hue / as hazelnuts”), “fair” Bianca, and their father Baptista as members of a mixed-race family. The production is conceptualized, cast, and rehearsed under the guidance of José Esquea, producer/director of the Soñadores Productions Shakespeare series (formerly of Teatro LATEA), a classical theater group that features Latinx, African American and Asian American actors, and mixed-ability casting (the combination of professional and amateur actors from the community).

Trans Riot: Transmasculine of Colour Expressions and Embodiments in the Films of Christopher Lee

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-312
Author(s):  
Jian Neo Chen
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Movement Building ◽  
Post Civil Rights ◽  
A Current ◽  
Feminist Work ◽  
Critical Resources

This article focuses on transmasculine mixed-race Asian American filmmaker Christopher Lee’s documentaries and pornography of the 1990s. At a moment before today’s reduction of transgender experiences to spectacles of transitional assimilation, bio-social disorder, and death by dominant—or even authoritarian—white cis-heteropatriarchal culture, Lee’s films gave expression to the gender subversions of trans people of colour and their co-conspirators. In solidarity with Lee’s work, I produce critical creative language about racial transgender social identities. At a current moment offering more abundant critical resources and intersectional transgender movement-building, I also seek to re-harness Lee’s transmasculine imagery towards the trans of colour feminist work of transforming the white Western cis-binary gender/sex system and its perceptual structures. I view the communities represented in Lee’s filmmaking as confronting the contradictions of a post-Civil Rights neoliberal multiculturalism that promises minimal access while institutionalizing white cis-binary formations of gender/sex fundamental to theUSnation-state.

Mixed Race Asian American Identity on Display

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-191
Author(s):  
Lily Anne Welty Tamai ◽  
Cindy Nakashima ◽  
Duncan Ryuken Williams
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Asian American Identity

“I Was Raised a Buddhist”: Tiger Woods, Race, and Asian-ness

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
Stanley Thangaraj
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Asian America ◽  
Asian American Identity ◽  
Tiger Woods

Scholarly articles on Tiger Woods have attended to his mixed-race body through blackness and the refusal of his Asian heritage and identity. His Asian-ness was not part of the early marketing of his iconicity. In this paper, I looks at how Tiger Woods responded to the news of his marital affairs through a deployment of Buddhism. In particular, I theorize Asian/Asian American masculinity that engages with religion, Asia, Asian-ness, and Asian America to complicate theories of race, gender, and sexuality. Through the invocation of Buddhism, Tiger Woods offers a different racial heteronormativity that is legible in the nation and larger marketplace. In the process, he aligns with Asian and Asian American respectability as a way to temper blackness; it is an Asian and Asian American identity grounded in the rise of Asian capital and reconfigurations of both Asian and Asian American masculinity. Therefore, through Asian-ness, Woods offers an assemblage of religion, race, gender, and sexuality that silences and erases blackness.

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