Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kingston's lecture was not composed of solely reading through her works, however. Whether explaining her books in more detail, or wandering through territory yet unwritten, her topics varied from Hawaiian mythology to redefining homelands and boundaries for immigrants. She covered the Vietnam war, and the reactions of Asian-American soldiers when faced with an enemy distinguished by their Asian ethnicity. She addressed, in personal and general terms, the tension created within personal ideologies when great forces such as state and ethnicity are obscured. Her subjects were not solely rooted in Asian-American culture; she repeatedly emphasized complete multiculturism...
...unstructured speech that included several readings from her books, the popular Asian-American writer discussed the importance of "crossing of borders and boundaries" between people of different groups and ethnicities...
While the audience that packed the aisles of Science Center C was largely Asian and Asian-American, other races were also fairly well-represented...
CityStep, Director, Dance Teacher; South Asian Assoc., Academic/Political Chair, Interethnic Chair; First year Outdoor Program, Trip Leader; Pluralism Project, Researcher/Writer...
Will the next Asian war be fought over a few tiny islands? And might it be between the ethnic Chinese of Hong Kong, Taiwan and China on one side and their ancient enemy Japan on the other? The ownership of the potentially oil-rich islands (called Diaoyu by the Chinese and Senkaku by the Japanese) has ignited a grass-roots movement in capitalist Hong Kong, communist China, and among pro-unification forces in Taiwan. This territoriality has been matched by rightist indignation in Japan, which has not fought a war since 1945 but which sent its coast guard...