Mixed Asian Resources

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)

KAAN

Midwest Mixed

Mixed American Life

Mixed Asian Media

Mixed Race Studies

The Mixed Space

Network of Politicized Adoptees

Red Thread Broken

Adapted

Adoptees On

Being Biracial

The Halfie Project

a LATTO thought podcast

Militantly Mixed podcast

MixdGen Podcast

Mixed Kid Chronicles

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)

Special: A Live Podcast of Community Voices Part 2 – New Narratives

Does Asian American solidarity exist? How can nonprofits genuinely engage with the community? How do Asian Americans interact with politics and organizing? In June 2023, seven Asian-led organizations in the Twin Cities hosted a community event, Spring into Action: Cultivating Grassroots Asian Power. As nonprofits whose mission is to uplift the community, we must also be accountable to what the community wants and needs. During the event, attendees had the opportunity to participate in a live podcast recording as a way to ground our work in community voices and provide an empowering space for young people to tell their stories. In Part 2 of this installment, three of the organizers of Spring into Action, Jacqueline (she/her), Marie (she/they), and Tri (he/anh), sit down to talk in-depth about the prompts we posed to our community members at the event. Tune in to hear us discuss topics like affirmative action, ABGs, and eating egg sandwiches in Minneapolis. In Part 1, you will hear the raw audio and stories from participants at the event. Attendees as young as eleven years old share their perspectives on their neighborhoods, issues they care about, and building Asian power. Head over to the previous episode to listen. Thank you to our partner organizations, The SEAD Project, Siengkane Lao MN, SEIU Asian Pacific Islanders Caucus, MN8, Coalition of Asian American Leaders, and Twin Cities Japanese American Citizens League, and to Tri Vo from The SEAD Project for collaborating on this audio project with us. For more info on AAOP, head to our: Website Instagram Facebook Twitter Participate in Tri's project at SEAD, Brave Harbors, which aims to strengthen the framing of and tools available to Southeast Asian peoples needed to build up a world from our hopes and imagination. To build this new world, SEAD needs to hear from you! Head to tinyurl.com/summerSEAD to share your thoughts and feelings as a Southeast Asian American.

1. Special: A Live Podcast of Community Voices Part 2 56:28
2. Special: A Live Podcast of Community Voices Part 1 29:29
3. Special: Stories of Four Asian American Actors at the Guthrie Theater 01:14:58
4. Episode 17: A Pillar of Light 23:13
5. Episode 16: Reproductive Justice in Minnesota (Part 2) 22:32

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