Blackness in Flux in Okinawa: Making Race in Between Racial "States of Being"

Blackness in Flux in Okinawa: Making Race in Between Racial "States of Being"
+ Black Japanese Guest Artists

February 11, 2011
@ 691 Barrows Hall
UC Berkeley
4:00 - 6:30pm

Ariko Ikehara (Ethnic Studies)

Mitzi Uehara Carter (Anthropology)

Co-recipients of the UC Center for New Racial Studies Grant 2010-11


Two black-Okinawan graduate students at UC Berkeley will present some of their research findings and their works in progress on race, space, and US militarization in Okinawa.

This forum will also bring together several black-Japanese who will share their poetry, art, and other creative works which speak to blackness in flux in their own lives

Guest performers:

Fredrick Cloyd
Sabrena Taylor
Michael James
Ahmed Yamato
Ariko Ikehara
Mitzi Uehara Carter

Program A: 4-4:45 pm
Mid-Year Grant Report

Ariko Ikehara: “Situating black-Amerasian Okinawans in mixed space/race history”

Mitzi Uehara Carter: “Nappy Routes and Tangled Tales of Blackness in Okinawa”

Program B: 5pm-6:30pm
Guest Performances