LINKS: Multilingual Living, Nella Larsen, CA governor candidate
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Here’s a round-up of links to articles worth checking out. Thanks to Corey, Tariq and T, respectively!
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Passing Glory: The re-examined life of a Harlem Renaissance luminary
The Washington Post
IN SEARCH OF NELLA LARSEN: A Biography of the Color Line
By George Hutchinson
“George Hutchinson has delivered a definitive biography of the acclaimed Harlem Renaissance writer Nella Larsen (1891-1964). The author of the novels Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929), Larsen was the daughter of a seamstress from Denmark and a black laborer from the Danish West Indies — now the U.S. Virgin Islands — who met in Chicago. Scandalous by U.S. standards, the romance between Larsen’s parents was natural given their shared Danish language and roots, Hutchinson notes. “That he was ‘colored’ and she ‘white’ would not have seemed the obstacle most ‘native’ Americans considered it,” writes Hutchinson, an English professor at Indiana University…”
The emerging power in Westly’s campaign
Anita Yu Westly stumps for husband in Cantonese
The San Francisco Chronicle
“Anita Yu Westly, wife of state Controller Steve Westly, has a life story that could be the antidote for the critics who say her husband, the former eBay executive, is just a rich guy trying to buy the governor’s seat. She’s a Chinese immigrant who came to the United States from Hong Kong as a child, whose father died when she was just a teen, and whose family of five kids went on public assistance at one time to make ends meet. Through it all, as the eldest daughter, she assumed a role helping her single working mother, who, to this day, works on an assembly line…”
Charlette wrote:
just another white guy who married and Asian and wants a pat on the back for it.
Posted 26 May 2006 at 10:45 am ¶
Anonymous wrote:
He would NEVER win with his “I can buy anything” image.
He’s using his wife’s life story to change his image and her connection to the Asian American community to win votes. People love her.
Posted 27 May 2006 at 2:48 pm ¶
Brad wrote:
Charlette and Anonymous:
Um, aren’t you being presumptious and racist by assuming that you know anything about this couple? Also, I seem to recall Theresa Hines Kerry’s story of being an immigrant from South Africa being mentioned several times during Kerry’s run for the presidency.
Given Hillary Clinton’s prominence in the Clinton Administration, why should an Chinese-American woman be stuck in the kitchen, hiding from a political role? Didn’t Maria Schriver campaign for her husband? Didn’t Laura Bush campaign for George W. Bush?
Hello! Nancy Reagan was hell on wheels; historians have written books about her role in the Reagan Administration from having chiefs of staff fired to setting Ronnie’s appointments based on her astrologer’s readings.
I think it’s appalling that you would expect a woman to hide from limelight because of her heritage. If it’s okay for white American women to be co-campaigners, why can’t Asian-American women?
Finally, you really should be ashamed of yourself to denigrate the marriage of a couple as you’ve done. Not all Caucasian/Asian pairings are the reflection of a colonial Suzie Wong vision. Some non-Asian men marry their Asian wives because they love and respect their wives and their intelligence, seeing them as partners not sex slaves!
(No, I’m not a white male and I’m not involved in a romantic relationship with an Asian woman. My best friend is an Asian women whose husband is Caucasian. They have a great marriage because they’re both aggressive, career and family oriented, who see their marriage as a partnership. I wish other people I knew had such a strong relationship.)
Posted 28 May 2006 at 4:40 pm ¶
Anonymous wrote:
Brad,
If you can read a newspaper (or the article), you can learn that:
1)Westly has tried to shed his silver spoon image.
2)Anita Yu Westly’s American dream image seems to be the cure.
3)She’s hitting the Asian American community for votes.
It’s my opinion that he’s lucky, because he would never win without her.
Who said anything about Suzie Wong and Hillary Clinton?
How the hell did you come up with those assumptions of yours?
You should be ashamed you can’t read, Brad.
Posted 28 May 2006 at 9:36 pm ¶
Anonymous wrote:
As as Asian-American woman, I see this from a realistic point of view, there are Westly campaign ads on the Chinese News with Anita Yu speaking in Cantonese in favor of Westly. Without Anita, Westly will not win this election. This has nothing to do with a White man and Asian woman marriage, this is about what is best for CA. I believe Westly is like another Arnold, and CA does not need that.
Posted 07 Jun 2006 at 2:50 am ¶