As an accompaniment to our April 2022 New Narratives episode “We Are What We Are,” we’re building an ongoing list of resources for mixed Asians (mixed race, mixed ethnicity, transracial and transnational adoptees). While by no means comprehensive, the following collection of resources aims to be a jumping off point for learning and community-building.
If you think there is something that should be on this list that isn’t, we want to know! Reach out to Content Creator Intern Siena at siena@aaopmn.org with your additions!
Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS)
Network of Politicized Adoptees
Other: Mixed Race in America podcast
Bonus New Narratives Episode: “A Conversation on Mixed-Race Asian Identity” between New Narratives co-host Siena (she/her) and documentary filmmaker & former AAOP staff member serena (they/them)
Episode 13: My Name and Me - New Narratives
Adoptee Deportee: How Transnational Adoption Became an “Immigration Problem” - Immigration History Research Center
Navigating Intersectionalities of Mixed Race - Curtiss Takada Rooks
Reclaiming My Voice as a Transracial Adoptee - Sara Jones
Transracial Adoptee Voices of Love and Trauma - Mikayla Zobeck
What Mixed Race Asians Will Never Tell You - BuzzFeedWhy Mixed Race Babies Aren’t the Answer to Racism - Annabelle Schmitt
All You Can Ever Know, by Nicole Chung
Amalgamation Schemes, by Jared Sexton
Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego, by Rudy P. Guevarra Jr.
The Face: A Time Code, by Ruth Ozeki
Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural, edited by Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn
Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism by Kim Park Nelson
Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories, edited by Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, and Christina Gomez
Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women, edited by Carol Camper
Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality, by Minelle Mahtani
The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier, edited by Maria Root
Multiracial Parents: Mixed Race Families, Generational Change, and the Future of Race, by Miri Song
Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World, by Sharon H. Chang
Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption by Laura Briggs
The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed-Heritage Asian Americans, edited by Teresa Williams-León and Cynthia L. Nakashima
War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, edited by Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis
When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian American Identities, by Stephen Murray-Shigematsu