Talkin’ Race with Laura and Wei Ming |
Talkin’ Race with Laura and Wei Ming
The Magic Mulatto: Bringing the fine art of Race Talk straight to the people
2013-03-26
Brett Russell Coleman, Doctoral Student of Community & Prevention Research
University of Illinois, Chicago
“In 1969, we weren’t at war with China.”
If that sentence leaves you perplexed in any way, you need to do two things. First listen to the audio of the conversation I had with Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis…
…The second thing you need to do is check out their project, War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, which investigates constructions of mixed heritage Asian American identity in the United States. This is a “multi-platform project (book, traveling art exhibition, website and blog) that examines how, or even if, mixed heritage Asian Americans address hybrid identities in their artwork, as well as how perspectives from critical mixed race studies illuminate intersections of racialization, war and imperialism, gender and sexuality, and citizenship and nationality.”…
Read the article and listen to the interview here.
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