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Kai Mitsuru Wilkin

@kaimitsuru.bsky.social
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Researcher of race and multiraciality with a focus on Japaneseness and Asianness and their transpositions in so-called Canada. @tatamiroom.bsky.social

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Kai Mitsuru Wilkin @kaimitsuru.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Read or listen to my talk at the Critical Mixed Race Studies conference here! open.substack.com/pub/tatamiro...
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What’s in a (Remixed) Name? My Talk at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
Name Remixing as Affective Navigation and Critical Healing for Multiracial Nikkei Women in Canada
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Kai Mitsuru Wilkin @kaimitsuru.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
At UCLA for the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference! I’ll be presenting my theory on Name Remixing, drawn from research on the multiracial Nikkei diaspora in Canada. Feeling really grateful to be learning alongside so many brilliant people in this small but growing field. More soon! 🤞😊 #CMRS
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 02/10/2025
Programme, which started after Korean War as a way of removing mixed-race children from society, violated human rights.
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South Korea president apologises for abusive foreign adoption scheme
Programme, which started after Korean War as a way of removing mixed-race children from society, violated human rights.
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Kai Mitsuru Wilkin @kaimitsuru.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Remember her? This computer-generated woman appeared on the cover of Time in 1993. As a teen, her face brought some comfort. Seeing her again 30 years later felt entirely different. This short piece reflects on the New Eve’s hollow fantasy of a post-racial future. open.substack.com/pub/tatamiro...
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The Dawn of the New Eve
In 1993 — the year I was born — Time magazine ran a special issue titled “The New Face of America.” The subheading read: How Immigrants Are Shaping the World's First Multicultural Society. Its cover f...
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Christine Capili @ccapili.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
In August 2024, my article "Multiraciality & Racialized Politics in the United States" (Capili 2024, doi.org/10.1080/1070...) was published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. I examine the intersection of race and politics through multiracial identity.
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Multiraciality and racialized politics in the United States
In the United States, political ideology and political party affiliation provide important indicators of multiracial individuals’ place in the historic racial order. I ask the following research qu...
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下地 ローレンス吉孝/ Lawrence Yoshitaka Shimoji @lawrenceyoshy.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
My presentation title was "Okinawa In Triple Racial Formation: The Okinawan Mixed-Race Experience as Amerasians". I’m also grateful for the opportunity to learn so much and to begin forming new academic networks and connections.
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Kai Mitsuru Wilkin @kaimitsuru.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
@tatamiroom.bsky.social In this article, we explore definitions, the idea that mixed race isn’t real (but the experience is), and multiraciality as permutational. open.substack.com/pub/tatamiro...
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Tatami Room @tatamiroom.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
@kaimitsuru.bsky.social Distorted childhood memories, family love, mixed race realities, ancestral reverbs, intergenerational loss, quiet resistance… If that strikes a chord in any way, check out my latest short story on Tatami Room. open.substack.com/pub/tatamiro...
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Koi Pond
A short story offering.
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Kai Mitsuru Wilkin @kaimitsuru.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
@stevenforth.bsky.social thank you for your reposts steven! very much appreciate the support.
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Kai Mitsuru Wilkin @kaimitsuru.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
@tatamiroom.bsky.social In case you missed it, here is the first introductory post for Tatami Room — a mixed used space for thinking about multiraciality and moving towards a more comprehensive and disruptive understanding of race, mixed race, and racism in Canada. open.substack.com/pub/tatamiro...
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Kai Mitsuru Wilkin @kaimitsuru.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Me, crying, because race is not that fun to talk about. Second post is out now on Tatami Room! open.substack.com/pub/tatamiro...
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Talking about race is just not that fun.
On why talking about race is deceptively difficult and often uncomfortable.
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Carissa Chew @carissachew.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
medium.com/@carissatarm... #history #mixedrace #britishempire #colonialism
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The abduction of mixed-race children under the British Empire
Following the landmark ruling on métis kidnappings in Belgium, it is time for Britain to confront a dark chapter of its own history.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
the most embarrassing part of being a “100 tabs open at once” guy is when you inadvertently close them and don’t even notice and there are absolutely no negative consequences
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Kai Mitsuru Wilkin @kaimitsuru.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I’m trying something new! Subscribe to Tatami Room where I explore mixed race research, discuss my own research findings, and offer my continued thoughts on the mixed race experience. Subscribe and the first post will land in your inbox next week. tatamiroom.substack.com #multiracial #mixedrace
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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
“We provide evidence that the multiracial boom was largely a statistical illusion resulting from methodological changes that confounded ancestry with identity and mistakenly equated national origin with race.” sociologicalscience.com/articles-v11...
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The Multiracial Complication: The 2020 Census and the Fictitious Multiracial Boom
Article: The Multiracial Complication: The 2020 Census and the Fictitious Multiracial Boom | Sociological Science | Posted December 3, 2024
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Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
'Multiraciality and #racialized politics in the United States' New from #Identities, by Christine M. Capili Online ⬇️ doi.org/10.1080/1070... #race #multiracial #racialpolitics @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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Dr. Shaonta’ Allen @shaonta.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
🚨 Excited to share my new article published at Social Problems that rethinks the field’s engagement w/ Liberation Sociology! When interviewing Black Millennials about their racial, religious, & political lives during Black Lives Matter, liberation came up a lot. This study examines those narratives.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
All 6 of Edward W. Said's recorded Reith lectures on Representations of the Intellectual can be heard here: 1) Representations of the Intellectual 2) Holding Nations And Traditions At Bay 3) Intellectual Exiles 4) Professionals and Amateurs 5) Speaking Truth To Power 6) Gods That Always Fail
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BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Edward Said - Representation of the Intellectual - Available now
Available episodes of Edward Said - Representation of the Intellectual
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Monica Heilman 석지혜 @writingmonicker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
"Simply trying to understand race is now, more than ever, an act of political resistance." -Claire Jean Kim (2022) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Asian Americans and Anti-Blackness
Published in Politics, Groups, and Identities (Vol. 10, No. 3, 2022)
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Kai Mitsuru Wilkin @kaimitsuru.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Starter pack for researchers of multiraciality and others interested in the multiracial experience! Haven’t found very many people interested in Critical Mixed Race Studies yet and would love love love to connect. Please share and tag others! #CMRS #mixedrace #multiracial go.bsky.app/NTSoSK
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Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 17/11/2024
We're also putting together our own starter packs for our fave people plus long-time supporters of UJ. Here's our first. We'll keep adding to this as more folks migrate over. go.bsky.app/Eno5eAX
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Lindsay Nelson-Santos @newsfromnihon.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I made a Japanese Studies starter pack! Film, literature, sociology, history, cultural studies, translation, academic and academic-adjacent. Please reply if you want to be added (or removed)! go.bsky.app/AXJLiEA
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