The Office of Multicultural Services and Programs and the Asian American Student Association will host an evening with Kip Fulbeck, an award-winning filmmaker, artist and author, on Jan. 29 at 7 p.m. in Room 171 of the Miller Learning Center. The program, “What Are You? The Changing Face of America,” is open free to the public.
Using his own Cantonese, English, Irish and Welsh background as a springboard, Fulbeck confronts media imagery of Asian men, interracial dating patterns and icons of race and sex in the U.S. His work invites and inspires viewers to explore how their own ethnic stereotypes and opinions on interracial dating, gender roles and personal identity are formed.
A professor and chair of art and an affiliate faculty member of Asian American studies and film studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Fulbeck has performed and exhibited in more than 20 countries and throughout the U.S. In addition to twice being the keynote speaker at the National Conference on Race in Higher Education, he has directed 13 independent videos and authored the critically acclaimed books Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography and Part Asian, 100% Hapa, which features portraits of multiracial people of Asian/Pacific Islander descent with an introduction by Sean Lennon.
