Shizue Seigel
Shizue Seigel é uma escritora e artista visual Sansei que mora em São Francisco. Sua família foi deslocada pelo encarceramento de Pismo Beach e Stockton, Califórnia, e ela cresceu como uma criança do Exército na segregada Baltimore, no Japão ocupado, nas áreas de derrapagem da Califórnia e nos campos de parceria. Ela é vencedora do Jefferson Award, três vezes ganhadora do San Francisco Arts Commission Artist Grant e bolsista da VONA/Voices. Seus sete livros incluem Em boa consciência: apoiando os nipo-americanos durante a internação, Meus primeiros cem anos: as memórias de Nellie Nakamura e quatro antologias de escritores e artistas negros da Bay Area. Sua prosa e poesia foram publicadas em We've Been Too Patient, All the Women in My Family Sing, Your Golden Sun Still Shines, InvAsian, Cheers to Muses, Empty Shoes, Away Journal, Eleven Eleven, Persimmon Tree, Lunchbox Moments , e em outros lugares.
Atualizado em maio de 2022
Stories from This Author
Baachan
19 de Maio de 2022 • Shizue Seigel , traci kato-kiriyama
Este mês, temos o prazer de apresentar dois poemas da escritora e artista visual radicada em São Francisco, Shizue Siegel. Como fundadora/diretora do Write Now!, Shizue amplifica muitas vozes em toda a Bay Area, e aqui temos a honra de compartilhar sua voz com peças sobre seu Baachan. Através desta escrita, somos tratados com sua história e contexto cultural querido, as muitas camadas de compaixão de e por uma avó, as imagens da infância de Shizue e a resiliência do …
The Sansei Perspective
21 de Junho de 2012 • Shizue Seigel
The Japanese American experience has rarely been examined through a Sansei lens. Art by first-generation Issei and second-generation Nisei who were among the 120,000 incarcerated in American concentration camps during World War II has been well-documented, as has the heavily assimilated and media-centric landscape of younger API artists. But the third-generation Sansei have remained a shadow or sandwich generation subsumed between survivor guilt and filial piety on the one hand and kodomo no tame ni (sacrifice for our children) on …
Intermarriages and Hapas: An Overview - Part 2
12 de Maio de 2007 • George Kitahara Kich , Rebecca Chiyoko King , Larry Hajime Shinagawa , Shizue Seigel
>> Part 1 Current Japanese American AttitudesIntermarriage has been a major, and controversial, topic of discussion within the Japanese American community over the years. The Pacific Citizen has consistently afforded a forum for some of this discussion (particularly the Holiday Issue, December 20-27, 1985). As more and more marriages across culture and race occurred, unresolved questions, opinions and prejudices surfaced. For many years, people who were of mixed race were seen as a loss to the community. Some people went …
Intermarriages and Hapas: An Overview - Part 1
11 de Maio de 2007 • George Kitahara Kich , Rebecca Chiyoko King , Larry Hajime Shinagawa , Shizue Seigel
To be biracial and Japanese American means having many different labels from which to choose. For this historical overview, we will use “Hapa”, a term popularized by the Hapa Issues Forum, to mean people who have an Asian/Asian Pacific Islander parent and a parent of any other race. Our focus here is on those with a Japanese or a Japanese American parent. There is no single Hapa experience. Over the decades, Hapas have had widely different experiences based on individual …
