novels—memoirs—short stories—anthologies—poems—plays—performance works—other—videos—movies—musicals—nonfiction—theses/dissertations—reviews—interviews—personal essays—selections from anthologies—journal articles—magazines—newspapers—radio broadcasts Beach, Rex. Son of the Gods. New York:
Harper & Brothers, 1929. Bey, Aleph. That Eurasian: A Story of India.
Chicago: M.A. Donohue, c1905. Birney, Alfred. Het verloren lied [The
Lost Song]. Haarlem: In
de Knipscheer, 2000. ———. Indische
gezichten [Indo Stories]. Haarlem: In
de Knipscheer, 2002. Bloem, Marion, and Wanda Boeke (trans.). The
Cockatoo's Lie.
Seattle, WA: 1993. Boler, Olivia J.
Year of the Smoke Girl.
Roseville, CA: Dry
Bones Press, 2000. Brown, Carter. Hong Kong Caper. Signet
Books, 1962. ———. The Passionate
Pagan. Signet Books, 1963. Bruce, Henry. The Eurasian. London: J.
Long Ltd., 1913. Burgess, Alan. Buccaneer Books,
1996. (basis for
the movie The Inn of the Sixth
Happiness) Chalosse, Roland. L'Eurasienne [The
Eurasian]. Paris: Société des Écrivains, 2001. Chand, Meira. The
Gossamer Fly.
London: Arrow
Books, 1979. ———. Last
Quadrant.
London: Arrow
Books,1981. Chang, Diana. Frontiers of Love.
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press,
1994. (Three Eurasians search for identity in the
international sector of Shanghai at the end of World War II. The first
of six books by this fine writer, who in her later novels does not
again touch on the ethnic theme.)* Cleary, Jon. Forests of Night. New
York: Morrow, 1963. Correll, Alexander. The Deadly Eurasian (also
published as The Bright Cantonese). New York:
Weybright and Talley, 1967. Corris, Peter. The Gulliver Fortune.
Sydney: Bantam Books, 1989. d'Alpuget, Blanche. Turtle Beach.
Penguin Putnam, 1981. Davenport, Kiana. Shark Dialogues.
New York: Penguin,
1995. Davies, Peter Ho. The Ugliest House in the World:
Stories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1998. ———. Equal Love.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000. Denny, Leslie. Water from the Moon.
Leicester, UK: Ulverscroft Large Print Books,
1988. Dickason, Christie. Indochine. New
York: Bantam, 1988. (originally
published as The Dragon Riders, London: Century
Hutchinson Ltd., 1986). (unrelated to the movie of the same name
starring Catherine Deneuve) Dover, Cedric. The Eurasian Voice. ———. Half-Caste.
London: Martin Secker & Walburg Ltd., 1937. Eaton, Edith Maud [pseud. Sui Sin Far]. Its
Wavering Image. 1912. Eaton, Winnifred [pseud. Onoto Watanna]. A
Japanese Nightingale. New York: Harper, 1901. (An
American man visiting Japan marries a beautiful Eurasian singer-dancer,
who continually asks him for money and periodically disappears. Praised
by William D. Howells.)* ———. Tama.
New York: Harper, 1910. (An American professor in Japan,
intrigued by reports of a fox spirit shunned and feared by the
villagers, captures her and discovers a beautiful blind Eurasian
orphan, living by her wits. He arranges an operation to restore her
sight and marries her.)* Eldridge, Kathleen Tamakawa. Holy Prayers in a Horse's Ear.
New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc., 1932. Fernando, Lloyd. Scorpion Orchid.
Singapore: Times Books International, 1992. Field, Norma. In the Realm of a Dying Emperor.
New York: Pantheon Books, 1991. Fenkl, Heinz Insu. Memories of My Ghost Brother.
New York: Dutton Books, 1996. Foster, K. B. The Story of the Eurasian. Fulbeck, Kip. Paper Bullets.
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press,
2000. Ganeshan, Indira. Inheritance.
Boston: Beacon
Press, 1998. Gaunt, Mary. A Wind from the Wilderness.
London: T. Werner Laurie, 1919. Gibson, William. Idoru. Berkeley
Pub Group, 1997. Gabriel, Marius. The Seventh Moon.
Bantam, 2001. Gillespie, Leslie. The Man from Madura.
London & New York: T. V. Boardman & Co., 1952. Greenfield, Karl Taro. Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with
Japan's Next Generation. New York: Harper Perennial Library, 1995. Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata. Dogeaters. New
York: Pantheon Books, 1990. ———. The Gangster of Love.
New York: Penguin,
1996. Hahn, Kimiko. The Unbearable Heart.
New York: Kaya
Press, 1996. Hara, Marie. Banana Heart and Other Stories.
Honolulu, HI: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1994. Hyatt, Betty Hale. Fandora's Story. New
York: Playboy Paperbacks, 1981. Irwin, Wallace. Seed of the Sun.
North Stratford, NH: Ayer Co. Pub., 1979. Jen, Gish. The Love Wife.
New York: Knopf, 2004. Johnston, Simon. Running Dog, Paper Tiger.
Toronto: Playwrights
Canada Press, 1998. Kadohata, Cynthia. In the Heart of the Valley of Love.
New York: Penguin,
1992. Keller Nora Okja. Comfort Woman.
New York: Penguin,
1997. ———. Fox Girl. New
York: Viking, 2002. Kim, Elizabeth. Ten Thousand Sorrows: The
Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan. New
York: Doubleday, 2000. Koch, Christopher. The Year of Living Dangerously.
Sydney: Nelson, 1978. Kunzru, Hari. The Impressionist. Plume, 2003. Lachshere, Lorraine. Flowers for Mei-Ling.
New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers,
1997. Lane, Elizabeth. China Quest.
Dell/Emerald, 1983. Lazaroo, Simone. The World Waiting to be Made.
Fremantle, Australia: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1994. ———. The Australian Fiancée.
Picador Australia, 2001. ———. The Meaning of
Mist. (forthcoming) Lê, Linda, and Esther Allen (trans.) Slander.
Lincoln, NE: University
of Nebraska Press, 1996. ———. Calomnies
[Slander]. Paris: Bourgois,1993. ———. Les Dits d'un
Idiot [The Sayings of an Idiot]. Paris: Bourgois,1995. Lee, Sky. Disappearing Moon Café.
Seattle, WA: Seal Press, 1991. Lei-lanilau, Carolyn. Ono Ono Girl's Hula.
Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press,
1997. Liu, Aimee E. Cloud Mountain.
New York: Warner Books, 1998. ———. Face. New York:
Warner
Books, 1994. Louie, David Wong. The Barbarians Are Coming: A Novel.
New York: Putnam Pub Group, 2000. Lowell, Elizabeth. Jade Island.
Avon, 1999. Ludwig, Verle E. Archie Smallwood and the Marine
Raiders: A Rifleman's Brief .30-Caliber History of the Twentieth Century.
Fifthian Press, 1998. MacDonald, John D. Darker Than Amber.
Robbinsdale, MN: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1966. Mahieu, Vincent and Margaret M. Alibasah, trans. The Hunt for the Heart: Selected
Tales from the Dutch East Indies. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1996. Mason, Richard. The World of Suzy Wong.
Mattituck, NY: Amereon Ltd., 1999. Maugham, W. Somerset. The Narrow Corner.
1932. Maxwell, Robin. Merry-Go-Round: A Novel.
West Vancouver, BC: Pangli Imprint, 1990. McFerrin, Linda Watanabe. Namako: Sea Cucumber.
Seattle, WA: Coffee House Press, 1998. Miln, Louise Jordan. The Vintage of Yon Yee.
New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1931. Mukherjee, Bharati. Leave It to Me.
Fawcett Books, 1998. Nunez, Sigrid. A Feather on the Breath of God.
New York: Harper Perennial, 1995. ———. Naked Sleeper.
New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Ozeki, Ruth. My Year of Meats.
New York: Viking Press, 1999. Packard, Frank L. The Dragon's Jaws: A
Million-Dollar Ransom in Diamonds. Garden City, NY: The Crime
Club, 1937. Pearse, Lesley. Charlie.
London: Penguin
Books, 1999. Platt, Randall Beth. The Likes of Me.
Laureleaf, 2001. Putney, Mary Jo. The China Bride.
Ballantine,
2000. Rekdal, Paisley and Robin Desser, ed. The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee:
Observations on Not Fitting in (Cinema Classics).
New York: Pantheon Books, 2000. Revoyr, Nina. The Necessary Hunger.
New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1998. Rizzuto, Rahna Reiko. Why She Left Us.
New York: HarperCollins, 1999. Roley, Brian Ascalon. American Son.
W.W. Norton & Company, 2001. (1) Rutkowski, Thaddeus. Roughhouse: A Novel in Snapshots.
New York: Kaya
Press, 1999. Shelley, Rex. The Shrimp People
(1991), People of the Pear Tree (1993), Island in the Centre
(1995), A River of Roses
(1998) (four-part series) Singapore: Times
Publishing Ltd. Shepard, Karen. An Empire of Women.
Putnam Pub Group, 2000. Shute, Nevil. Round the Bend.
North Yorkshire, UK: House of Stratus, Ltd., 2000. Stewart, Fred Mustard. The Young Savages.
New York: Forge, 1999. (1) Stolk, Jill. De zwijgende vader [The
Silent Father]. Amsterdam: Nijgh
& Van Ditmar,1992. ———. Indië
was alles-Alles. De verhalen van toen en nu.
Bergen: Van Stockum Bonneville, 1996. ———. Onder
de blauwe sarong [Under the Blue Sarong]. Amsterdam: Nijgh & Van Ditmar,1986. ———. Scherven
van smaragd. Amsterdam: Nijgh
& Van Ditmar, 1983. Stone, Gillian. Land of Golden Mountains. Stout, Mira. One Thousand Chestnut Trees: A
Novel of Korea. New York: Riverhead Books, 1999. Suleri, Sara. Meatless Days.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Suyin, Han. A Many-Splendored Thing.
New York: Signet, 1955. Tan, Amy. The Hundred Secret Senses.
New York: Vintage, 1998. Toer, Pramoedya Ananta and Max Lane (trans.). This Earth of Mankind.
Penguin,
1996. Tyau, Kathleen. A Little Too Much is Enough.
New York: W.
W. Norton & Co., 1996. ———. Makai. Boston: Beacon
Press, 2000. Villasenor, Daniel. The Lake. New
York: Viking Press, 2000. Watanna, Onoto. The Heart of Hyacinth.
Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press,
2000. Wheatley, Dennis. Bill For the Use of a Body.
London: Anchor Press, 1964. Woodworth, Herbert G. In the Shadow of Lantern
Street. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1920. Wong, Shawn. American Knees.
New York: Scribner, 1996. Yamanaka, Lois-Ann. Name Me Nobody.
New York: Hyperion Books, 2000. Yep, Laurence. Angelfish.
Putnam Publishing Group, 2001. (for children) * Synopses
taken from the Association of
Departments of English MEMOIRS Chai, May-lee. Hapa Girl: A Memoir. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 2007. Cheng, Irene. Intercultural Reminiscences.
Hong Kong: David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies,
1997. Eaton, Winnifred. Me: A Book of Remembrance.
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi,
1997. Ellerman, Mei-Mei Akwai. In
Pursuit of Images and Shadows: A Daughter's First Steps in Search of
Her Mothers' Pasts. Wellesley, MA: Wellesley
Centers for Women, 1997. Hall, Bruce Edward. Tea That Burns: A Family Memoir of
Chinatown. : Free Press, 1998. Jen, Gish. Who's Irish? Stories.
: Vintage, 2000. Kwan, Michael David. Things That Must Not Be Forgotten:
A Childhood in Wartime China. New York: Soho
Press, Inc., 2001. Lefevre, Kim. (La) Métisse blanche
[{The} White Métisse]. Paris: J'ai Lu,
1990. ———. Moi, Marina La
Malinche. Paris: Stock, 1994. ———. Rétour
à la saison des pluies [Return of the Rainy
Season]. Paris: De L'Aube, 1995. Mahhere, Adeline Yen. Falling Leaves: The True Story of
an Unwanted Chinese Daughter. New York: John
Wiley & Sons, 1998. Nguyen, Kien. The Unwanted: A Memoir.
New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2000. Perrin, Elula and Evelyne van Coppernoll. L'Eurasienne
[The Eurasian]. Paris: Osmondes, 1995. Schenkhuizen, Marguerite and Lizelot Stout van Balgooy,
(ed. and trans.) Memoirs of an Indo Woman: Twentieth
Century Life in the East Indies and Abroad (Monographs International
Studies, Southeast Asia, No. 92). Athens, OH: Ohio University Center for International
Studies, 1994. SHORT STORIES Birney, Alfred. Journael van Cyberney.
Haarlem: In
de Knipscheer, 2001. Daitch, Susan. "The Golden Triangle." In Storytown:
Stories. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archives Press, 1996. Dawe, Carlton. "Yellow and White." London: John Lane, 1895.
1-25. London, Jack. "Chun Ah Chun."
In The House of Pride & Other Tales of Hawaii.
Macmillan, 1912. Maugham, W. Somerset. "The Pool." In The Great Exotic Novels and Short
Stories of Somerset Maugham, 76-113. New York: Carroll
& Graf, 2001. Roh-Spaulding, Carol."Waiting for Mr. Kim." ———. "White Fate." ANTHOLOGIES Gaskins, Pearl Fuyo, ed. What Are You? voices of mixed-race
young people. New York: Henry Holt &
Company, 1999. Hara, Marie and Hora Okja Keller, eds. Intersecting Circles: The voices of
hapa women in poetry and prose. Honolulu, HI: Bamboo
Ridge Press, 2000. O'Hearn, Claudine Chiawei, ed. Half and Half: Writers on Growing
Up Biracial and Bicultural. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998. Root, Maria P.P. Racially Mixed People in America.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1992. POETRY ———. Greed: Poems.
New York: WW. Norton, 1994. ———. Vice: Selected
and New Poems. NY: Norton, 1999. Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei. Summits Move with the
Tide: Poems and a Play. ———. Endocrinology.
Greenfield Center, NY: The Greenfield Press, 1982 (1974). ———. Random
Possessions. Oakland, CA: I. Reed Books, 1979. ———. The Heat Bird.
Providence, RI: Burning Deck, 1983. ———. Empathy.
Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1989. Chang, Diana. What Matisse Is After: Poems and
Drawings. New York: Contact II Publications, 1984. McFerrin, Linda Watanabe. The Impossibility of
Redemption is Something We Hadn't Figured On. Berkeley:
Berkeley Poets Workshop Press, 1990. PLAYS Del Rio, Bobby. Half-Chinx Taking Over the World.
2002 Houston, Velina Hasu, ed. But still, like air,
I'll rise: New Asian American Plays. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1997. ———. The Politics
of Life: Four Plays by Asian American Women. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1993. ——— Tea.
In Unbroken Thread: an Anthology of
Plays by Asian American Women, ed.
by Roberta Uno. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press,
1993. Nelson, Brian, ed. Asian American Drama: 9 Plays
from the Multiethnic Landscape. New York: Applause, 1997. Sunaida, Mari. Hybrid Vigor. Wilson, Lanford. Redwood Curtain. 1992. Wong, Adrienne. Other
Women. PERFORMANCE WORKS ———. The Queen's
Garden. with Mark Izu. Pele Productions with Asian Improv
aRts, 1996. Speakin' Up the Yin/Yang. Kip Fulbeck. Face. Veronica
Needa. 1998. (press release) Aliens in America. Sandra Tsing-Loh. VIDEOS
(entries with an asterisk are available from the National
Asian American Telecommunications Association) *Banana Split. Kip Fulbeck, 1991. Between Worlds. Cunanan's Conundrum. Stuart Gaffney,
1998. Daughter from Danang.
Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco, 2002. De Indische Diaspora (documentary) *Do 2 Halves Really Make a Whole?.
Martha Chono-Helsley, 1993. (description here) *Doubles: Japan and America's Intercultural
Children. Regge Life. *En Ryo Identity. Paul Mayeda Berges,
1991. First Daughter. Anne Madden, 1997. *Hapa. Midori Sperandeo, 2001. half/half. Angela Leonino, 1997. Mixed Blood. Valerie Soe, 1992. Murphy's Law (TV show on ABC).
Japanese-Italian character named Kimiko Fannuchi. (1988-89) None of the Above. Erika Surat Anderson,
1994. (lukewarm description here) Romance Café á la Hapa.
Mark Arbitrario, 1997. MOVIES
(all links go to the Internet Movie Database) Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight
(1991) Inn
of the Sixth Happiness, The (1958) King of the Khyber Rifles
(1953) (description here) Last Chance Love (1997)
(German-language synopsis here) Love is a Many-Splendored Thing
(1955) Rhapsody in August (1991)
(directed by Kurosawa and starring Richard Gere[!] as Eurasian) NONFICTION Baxter, Alan A. A Grammar of Kristang (Malacca
Creole Portuguese). Dept. of Linguistics, Research
School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1988. Birchall, Diana. Onoto Watanna: The Story of
Winnifred Eaton (The Asian American Experience).
Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, 2001. Blake, Myrna L., Evert-Oehlers, Ann. Singapore
Eurasians: Memories and Hopes. Singapore: Times
Publishing Ltd., 1992. ———. Kampong
Eurasians in Singapore. Singapore: University of Singapore,
1973. Chin, Jean Lau, Joan Huser Liem, Mary Anna Domokos-Cheng
Ham, and George K. Hong. Transference and Empathy in Asian
American Psychotherapy: Cultural Values and Treatment Needs.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999. (see chapter 4, "A Case of Biracial
Identity Confusion" by Gloria Chieko Saito) Chuong, Chung Hoang and Le Van. The Amerasians
from Vietnam: A California Study. 1994 Southeast Asia
Community Resource Center, Rancho Cordova, California. Crabb, C. H. Malaya's Eurasians—an
opinion. Singapore: D. Moore for Eastern Universities Press,
1960. Daus, Ronald. Portuguese Eurasian communities in
Southeast Asia. Pasir Panjang, Singapore: , c1989 Series: Local history and memoirs. Dover, Cedric. Cimmerii? or Eurasians and Their
Future. Calcutta: 1929. ———. Henry Derozio:
Eurasian Poet, Preceptor & Philosopher. Calcutta: ,
1930. Edwards, Thomas. Henry Derozio, the Eurasian
poet, teacher, and journalist. Calcutta: W. Newman, 1884. Gaikwad, V.S.R.R. The Anglo-Indians: A Study in
the Problems & Processes Involved in Emotional &
Cultural Integration. London: Asia Publishing House,1967 Hawes, Christopher J. Poor relations: the making
of a Eurasian community in British India, 1773-1833.
Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1996. Heron, S.F. Anglo-Indians and Eurasians.
Staton Press Simla, 1881. Hong Kong Life. Hong Kong: The Eurasian
Culture Company, 1965?. (photographs of the interiors of Eurasians'
houses in Hong Kong ). Koop, John Clement. The Eurasian population in
Burma. New Haven, Yale University, Southeast Asia Studies,
1960. Lamson, Herbert Day. The Eurasian in
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[641]-648. 24 cm. Reprinted for private circulation from American
journal of sociology, vol. XLI, no. 5, March 1936). Le Huu, Khoa. L'Interculturel et L'Eurasien
(Coll. Minorités et Sociétés).
Paris: L'Harmattan, 1993. Lee, Marji, ed. Prism Lives/Emerging Voices of
Multiracial Asians: A Selective, Partially Annotated Bibliography.
(available from UCLA-Asian American Studies Center) Ling, Amy. Between Worlds: Women Writers of
Chinese Ancestry. New York: Pergamon Press, 1990.
(see chapter 2, "Pioneers and Paradigms: The Eaton Sisters", pp. 21-56). Lyons, Barbara Moore. Eurasian roots: a story of
the life and times of George Ah Kin and Mary Higgins and their
descendants (A.C.T.: B. Moore, 1994). Madge, Elliot Walter; Subir Ray Choudhuri, ed.; foreword by
Susobhan Sarkar. Henry Derozio, the Eurasian poet
and reformer. Calcutta: Metropolitan Book Agency,
1967. originally published 1905, South Asia Books, 1982. Moore, Gloria Jean. The Anglo Indian Vision.
Melbourne: River Seine Publications, 1986. ———. The Lotus and the Rose: an
Anglo-Indian story. Melbourne: AE Press, 1986. Moritsugu, John, Lynn Foerster, and James K. Morishima. Eurasians: A Pilot Study.
(paper presented at the Western Psychological Association convention,
San Francisco, 1978). Parker, David and Miri Song, eds. Rethinking 'Mixed Race'.
London: Pluto
Press, 2001. (includes the chapter "Triples: The Social
Evolution of a Multiracial Panethnicity: An Asian American Perspective"
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Derozio, Torv Dutt and Sarojini Naidu. Stosius
Inc/Advent Books Division, 1988. Roberts, Michael. People inbetween: The Burghers
and the Middle Class in the Transformations Within Sri Lanka,
1790's-1960's . (faculty member of the anthropology department of the University of
Adelaide; available from Taprobanian Services, 1 Woodlark
Grove, Glenalta, Adelaide, S.A. 5052, Australia). Root, Maria P.P., "Multiracial Asian Americans: changing
the face of Asian America ", chapter 8, The Handbook of Asian American
Psychology (Sage Pub., 1998). Stark, Herbert Alick. Hostages to India, or The
Life-Story of the Anglo-Indian. Calcutta: 1926. Stonequist, Everett V. The Marginal Man: A Study in
Personality and Culture Conflict. New York: Russell
& Russell, Inc., 1937. (see Section II "The Racial Hybrid" pp.
12-18 "The Eurasians (Anglo-Indians) of India"). Taylor, Jean Gelman. The social world of Batavia:
European and Eurasian in Dutch Asia. Madison, WI: University
of Wisconsin Press, 1983. van der Veur, Paul W. Eurasian dilemma in
Indonesia (Ann Arbor, Mich.: Association for Asian Studies,
1960 Reprinted from The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. XX, No. 1,
November 1960). ———. The Eurasians
of Indonesia: a problem and challenge in colonial history.
Singapore: University of Singapore, 1968. ———. The Eurasians
of Indonesia: a political-historical bibliography. Ithaca,
NY: Modern Indonesia Project, Cornell University, 1971. Uit Indie Geboren. (1995) Wallace, Kenneth E. The Eurasian problem,
constructively approached. Calcutta and Simla: Thacker, Spink
& co., 1930. ———. Brave New
Anglo-India. Calcutta, 1935. White-Parks, Annette and Roger Daniels. Sui Sin Far/Edith Maude Eaton: A
Literary Biography (The Asian American Experience).
Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, 1995. Williams-Leon, Teresa, Nakashima, Cynthia L., and Michael
Omi (eds.). The Sum of Our Parts:
Mixed-Heritage Asian Americans (Asian American History and Culture).
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2001. Yarborough, Trin. Surviving Twice: Amerasian Children of the
Vietnam War. Washington D.C.: Potomac Books, 2005. THESES/DISSERTATIONS* Biracial
Japanese American identity: Hapa, double, or somewhere in between?
Collins, James Fuji. Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B:
The Sciences & Engineering 1997 Jun. 5712-B. Blue-eyed
Asian Maidens: Eurasianism in the Work of Sui Sin Far, Onoto Watanna,
Diana Chang, and Han Suyin. Carol
Roh-Spaulding (University of Iowa, 1996). Ethnic
Identity in Biracial Asian Americans. Karen Sachiyo
Anderson (California School of Professional Psychology, Los Angeles,
1993). Ethnic Myth and Ethnic Survival: The Case of
India's Anglo-Indian (Eurasian) Minority. Megan
Mills (York University, [Canada] 1998). Eurasians:
Ethnic/Racial Identity Development of Biracial Japanese/White Adults.
George Kitahara Kich (The Wright Institute [Berkeley], 1982). Eurasian
culture: supplemental readings for junior high school history
students—India. John Francis Englert, Thesis (M.
Ed.)—(Indiana State College, Indiana, PA: 1962). The
Eurasian: A social problem… Mary Helen Lee
(University of Chicago, 1912). The making
of an ethnic group: the Eurasian community in India.
Dorris West Goodrich (University of California, Berkeley, 1952). Recurrent
Themes in Asian American Autobiographical Literature.
Suttilagsana, Supattra. Bowling Green State University, 1986. (see
Chapter V, "The Marginal Man", on Kathleen Tamakawa Eldridge's Holy
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Identity of Racially Mixed People. Christine C.I. Hall
(UCLA, 1980). The Voices
of Amerasians: Ethnicity, Identity, and empowerment of Interracial
Japanese Americans. Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu (Harvard
University, 1987). Voices of
Eurasian Women: A Study of Image and Identity. Hedwidge
Tripp (St. Cloud State University, 1996). *(copies
of works written in North America are available from UMI) REVIEWS Great expectations (about Simone
Lazaroo) Hapa: Voices from the midst of the ethnic mix
(The Honolulu Advertiser, April 22, 2000) (review of
Intersecting Circles) "My Year of Meats" (Yolk Magazine,
September 30, 1998 (vol. 5, no. 3) p. 59) "Sandra Tsing Loh shines in politically-incorrect comedy" (Northwest
Asian Weekly, v. 18, no. 50, p. 9 [December 17, 1999]). Blood Sisters: 'Intersecting Circles' gives
insight into the hapa experience by Cynthia Oi (Honolulu
Star-Bulletin, March 20, 2000) On the road with Taxi-vala by
Aamir Rehman with Abdul Farooq Shadhid (SAMAR, Summer 1995) The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee:
Observations on Not Fitting In by Paisley Rekdal
(Stranger.com, vol. 10, no. 5 Oct 19-25, 2000) Cassel, Susie Lan. "The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed Heritage
Asian
Americans" Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 7, Number 1,
February 2004, pp. 78-81. "Eurasian/Amerasian perspectives: Kim
Lefèvre's Métisse blanche (White
Métisse) and Kien Nguyen's the
unwanted" Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen. Asian Studies Review Volume 29,
Number 2/June 2005, pp. 107-122.
INTERVIEWS Peter Ho Davies Interview, On the Sly An Interview with Jessica Hagedorn,
Jessica Hagedorn: Cultivating the art of
the melange NPR interview with Pramoedya Ananta Toer Sexy Smart Charlotte Sometimes:
Jonathan chats with Director Eric Byler
PERSONAL ESSAYS Hess, Demian. But You Don't Look Chinese. ———. Where Are You From? A mixed-race perspective. Hirabayashi, Lane Ryo. "The Best of Both Worlds?:
Reflection on the bi-cultural experience" Ishizuka, Nathalie. Hapa, Amerasian, Euro-Asian, Nisei or
"Other": Growing up Bi-culturally Jones, Adrian. Identity Depends on Perspective: Thoughts on
Interracial Identity. Maccoun, Shaun. I'm Mixed. Needa, Veronica. One
Woman's Identity and Belonging. Namkung, Victoria. Suspicious Mindes. Lee, Raisa. Two Cultures to Defend. Mainichi, Hokubei. "Eurasian Artists Speak to Stanford's
HAPA." February 1991. Rabbitt-Tomita, Jason. Hapa. unknown. Once Shunned, Mixed-Blood Thais Are Now Hip. ———. racist bastard Van Kerckhove, Carmen. Biracial Asians Break From Family Tradition. Watanabe, Scott. The Question: Multiracial Asians and the
Issue of Identity.
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Dariotis,Wei-Ming. "Developing a Kin-Aesthetic:
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———. "Hapa Literature:
Definitions and Introduction." In Teaching Asian American
Literature, ed. by .
Feng, Pin-chia. "The Space in Between: Eurasian Women's
Writing." In Remapping Chinese America: An International
Conference on Chinese American Literature. Institute of
European and American Studies. Academia Sinica. Taipei, June 12, 1999.
Fernando, Lloyd. "Picture of the Artist as a Eurasian." In Cultures
in conflict: essays on literature & the English language in
South East Asia, 151-155. Singapore: Graham
Brash, 1986.
Hershel, Helena Jia. "Therapeutic Perspectives on Biracial
Identity Formation and Oppression." In American Mixed Race: The Culture of
Microdiversity, ed. by Naomi Zack, 169-184.
Lanham, MD: Rowman
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Kay Williams, Teresa. "The Theater of Identity:
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What's Hapa-ning? The Emergence of Hapa Culture (Oriental
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The Write-In Race: New census demands new
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Interracial Marriage: A New Campaign Issue
Aliens in America Touches
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Hapa Singer Overcomes Discrimination
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Self-Inflicted Paper Cuts: Videomaker Kip
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(September 24, 2000)
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"Mixed Heritage Stories, Concerns Shared at Forum" (April
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"Classifying by Race Gets Tougher: Multiracial Americans
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Half-Breed: An Artist Ponders Racial
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"Double-Heritage Americans Don't Want to Have to Choose"
(March 10, 1994)
A blending of identities: Census shows large
increase in minorities (March 24, 2001)
The Asian Advantage: Suddenly, It's Great to
Be Me (February 27, 2000)
Amerasian pupil gets diploma: Education
board recognizes private school for first time (March 25,
2000)
Brown Alumni Magazine
A Korean Odyssey: A novel's half-Asian
heroine discovers her personal and political past. (November/December 1998)
The Stanford Daily
Forum Addresses Hapa Issues (October 9, 2002)
"Mixed Race Experience" (The Kojo
Nnamdi Show, 7/21/03) (requires Real Player)