I Am Your Son,Baba

Our Black bodies have had colonial histories inscribed on them. This colonial project of inscribing Black bodies with colonial knowledge has fragmented our Black knowledge to the point of making us doubt our Blackness. In my effort to leave my Black children a road map for living a whole and healthy life as proud Black people, I engage my experience of being fathered in colonial Africa through a letter to my own Baba (father). This letter embodies the African orality structure of engaging, and reflects on how colonialism has fragmented Black families and traumatized our children as part of the colonial project. To expose this colonial trickery through dialogue is my way of beginning to re-establish my Black familial bonds. I also share this story to our diverse global community because our Blackness is a part of our common humanity. So in our global human diversity we center our relational humanity through storytelling. This means how we matter to each other is in the stories that we tell. I hope my story connects us so that we matter to each other without undermining the intersections of race, gender, disability, colonialism, class structures, poverty, and ageism. My story highlights the power of dialogue in healing fractured relationships, giving witness to colonial oppression and being a tool for engaging social justice.     

海洋文明视野下的峇峇文化

峇峇文化作为东南亚土生华人文化的典型代表,是中华传统文化尤其是海洋文化在海外传播过程中产生的一种新的文化形态。从世界海洋文明的视野来看,峇峇文化是东、西方海洋文明在东南亚这一区域不断碰撞、交融的产物,其中既有西方殖民者海外拓殖的文化痕迹,也是中国海洋文明谱系在海外发展的结果。峇峇文化因此极具文化多元化的特征,成为观察东、西海洋文化对话融合的标本。