UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, March 16, 1995
5A
Playwright recalls post-WWII racism
By Eduardo A. Molina
Kansan staff writer
Writing plays has helped Velina Houston tell the stories of 100,000
The women faced racial
Velinda Houston
discrimination, as did their mixed- race children.
But more than telling the stories of these women and children, Houston's goal has been to talk about their contributions to American society and the problems of their mixed-race children.
Her speech last night at the Malott Room in the Kansas Union was part of KU's 1995 Asian-American Festival.
"Their stories have been suppressed," she told an audience of about 80 people. "My duty as an artist is to dispal the stereotypes about them."
Houston, who was born in Junction City, Kan., said that growing up with people from different ethnic backgrounds gave her a cosmopolitan perspective of life.
"Besides Japanese, there were Austrian, German and Italian war brides," she said. "I grew up with great international food. My first birthday cake was baked by a German woman because my mother didn't know about this tradition."
Houston said that talking about the problems the women and children faced was important because a modern form of racism existed.
Modern racism, Houston said, is sophisticated and dangerous.
"The type of racism is more insidious," she said. "Sometimes, even the victim doesn't know about it until it is too late."
Joe Perez, president of the Asian American Student Union, said the new generation of Asian Americans dealt with the problem of assimilation, but soon, they would face the problems caused by race relations.
"Like Velina Houston, we have to deal with issues of identity and the problems of a mixed culture," he said. "But our generation will have to deal with more interracial issues."
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