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A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, “5 Reasons Why I Like Doing ‘5 Reasons Why’ Type …
Read part 3 >>4.5 Non-NikkeiIn the 1980s the Japan economy underwent a significant growth that allowed many Japanese to become world travelers and adventurers. Most …
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Thirty years ago from this past Saturday, on June 23, 1982, Vincent Chin died. Four nights earlier, on June 19th, Chin had been celebrating his …
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Hay viajes que no empiezan cuando se planifican ni cuando se embarca en ellos, sino cuando surge el móvil para hacerlo. El “Oceanic” es un …
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“An extraordinary and beautiful film…exhaustively and passionately researched, both at the level of the filmmaker’s personal history and as an investigation into our national consciousness” —Academy …
As a Japanese-Jew, I have historically used self deprecating humor at my own expense as a way to explain and defend to others who I …
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INTRODUCTION: GLOBAL HIERARCHIES AND ETHNIC RETURN MIGRATION There has been considerable recent interest in ethnic homecomings, not just by immigrants who have lived abroad for decades, …
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“Are there any continuities,” wonders scholar Min Hyoung Song, “between the earlier generation of writers which first raised the banner of an Asian American literature …
A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese descent. This week, "5 Phrases to Be Wary of..." Check back every weekend …
Read part 2 >> 4.2 Nisei from early immigrants I interviewed only one individual who was born in Colombia from one of the 1929-1935 arrivers. …
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