Please read my latest column at . . .

Please read my latest column at

http://www.asianweek.com/2008/10/09/blasian-musician-explores-both-sides-of-his-roots/

and feel free to share with your friends / peers / acquaintances.

Thanks so much.

Take Care,

Sam Cacas
blogs at http://blasianexchangesanovel.blogspot.cm
http://blackwomanasianman.wordpress.com/

Thank you all for your support!

Just wanted to thank all of you for supporting my work with
your kind posts, purchase of my book, and all-around good
KARMA!

Us self-published authors especially need such TLC.

So just want to send my thanks and love,

Sam Cacas

June column is now up: BlAsian Artists Thrive

Just wanted to let everyone know that my latest column went up on AsianWeek.com today.Please access it at the URL below (copy alsopasted below) and post your reaction inthe comment box below the article atthe URL below. Also, Please feel free toforward it to your friends and relatives.
Warmest Regards,
Sam
http://www.asianweek.com/2008/06/16/%ef%bb%bfblasian-perspective-black-asian-artists-thrive/
Asian Week: Voice of Asian America
Blasian Perspective: Black-Asian Artists ThriveBy: Sam Cacas, Jun 16, 2008 Print Email ShareTags: Beyond Borders, Opinion Akira's Hip-Hop Shop (popcultureshock.com/akira) is a movie about ablack woman who falls in love with a Japanese man. Released last yearas an indie short, this BlAsian production has been making the roundsnationwide, including the recent Hollywood Black Film Festival andthe San Diego Asian Film Festival. Producer Joseph Doughrity, who gothis first break as an assistant to Oscar-nominated director JohnSingleton (Boyz 2 Men), has drawn enough raves from industry insidersto obtain funding to make the film a feature-length production. Ifyou plan on being in Atlanta this summer, check out the film at theAtlanta Pan-African Film Festival from July 18 to 27. The filmfestival is part of the National Black Arts Festival (nbaf.org), acultural celebration of the dance, music, film, theater, visual artsand literary arts of the African diaspora. For ticket information,call (404) 733-5000 or go to woodruffcentertickets.org. For ladiesinterested in checking out James Kyson Lee, the Asian male actor inAkira's Hip-Hop Shop, go to tiny.cc/LjeZL.
Rapper Taiyo Na, a Renaissance man of words, prides himself on beinginfluenced by Curtis Mayfield, Nas and Chris Ijiima. In his latestalbum, Love is Growth, the New York City resident makes his owncontribution to the growing Asian American soul genre. Featuringcollaborations with singers Vudoo Soul, Conchita Campos and Emily C.Chang, rapper/producer Koba, jazz violinist Jason Kao Hwang,guitarists Minimum Tek of Outernational and Mark Concerto of P.I.C.,and more, the album is composed, arranged and produced entirely byTaiyo. Socially conscious, often funky and always personal, the albumshowcases the artist's urgency, scope and depth through songs such asthe champion's anthem title track, the pulsating introduction "OneMore Time" and the ethereal rock-soul ballad "Take My Breath Away."
Like the Latin American soul music of Palmieri and La Lupegenerations before, Taiyo's Love is Growth marks the emergence ofAsian American soul music through songs such as "Lovely to Me(Immigrant Mother)" and "Kasama." It is a distinct American music —African and European in its roots — and now Asian in its perspective.
In an American pop culture that often doesn't see Asian people asperforming artists, time will only tell if the mainstream is readyfor more diversity. Two things, however, are certain: Taiyorepresents an entire movement of young Asian American musicianscreating a voice all their own, and Love is Growth is the latestcharge forward. See taiyona.com for information about his upcomingshows.
Sam Cacas is the author of BlAsian Exchanges, A Novel. View his blogsat blasianexchangesanovel.blogspot.com andbeyondborders.asianweek.com.

Please check out my May column in Asian Week

Please check out my May column in Asian Week

http://www.asianweek.com/2008/05/12/black-asian-coalition-fights-poverty/

It is about a San Francisco-based group called Asian Neighborhood Design which
provides job training to underprivileged youth who make up 50% of its clientele.

Please support the future stability of my column by writing a comment in the
comment box at the bottom of the URL above and make sure it is sent.

Take Care,

Sam

Please check out my April column in Asian Week+other recent URLs . . . what do you think?

Asian American Journalists Association interview of Sam Cacas & wife
http://www.k9sound.com/aaja/080314sc/blasian1.html

BlAsian Love on the web, April 13, 2008
http://www.asianweek.com/2008/04/13/black-asian-interracial-relationships-blasian-love-on-the-web/

Black-Asian Unity: An Asian American Celebration of Black History Month, February 29, 2008
http://www.asianweek.com/2008/02/29/black-asian-unity/

Please see my latest video at . . .

http://www.k9sound.com/aaja/080314sc/blasian1.html

Many thanks to the Asian American Journalists Association for
producing this video, particularly Eddie Foronda and Annabelle Udo.
I owe you immeasurably.

Viewers, please let me know what you think,

Sam

More information on 4.19.08 Filipino American Library event

Everyone, please invite your family and friends to this very interesting event. Book Launches is one of FAL’s regular programs, along with Bus Tours of Historic Filipinotown and our Children’s Reading Program. This particular book is very relevant to today’s world and I hope you all have a chance to read it. – Jonathan Lorenzo ----- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 24, 2008 CONTACT:Jonathan LorenzoAdministratorFilipino American Library (FAL)Tel: 213-382-0488Email: filamlibrary@sbcglobal.net NEW BOOK EXPLORES THE DYNAMICS OF INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS LOS ANGELES (March 2008) – Interracial unions are increasingly commonplace and this relationship genre is the focus of Sam Cacas’s new book BlAsian Exchanges, a novel. It will be featured in a Filipino American Library (FAL) Book Launch on Saturday, April 19 at 2:00pm at FAL (135 N. Park View St., Los Angeles). To RSVP for this free event, please contact filamlibrary@sbcglobal.net or 213-382-0488. In FAL Book Launches, authors introduce their Filipino works of literature with residents of Greater Los Angeles. Admission is free and donations are accepted. Snacks and drinks will be provided. This event is co-sponsored by Filipino American Service Group, Inc. (FASGI), Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC), and Burger King Corporation. BlAsian Exchanges, a novel is about Earvin Ilokano, a Filipino American journalist in San Francisco, who decides to become a novelist in the midst of career and work frustrations. The tale he writes is a recollection of his attraction for Black women and Black culture in relation to his racial (Asian American) and ethnic (Filipino American) heritage. To stoke his poison pen, journalist Ilokano - who is married to a Black woman - recruits Black women on the Internet to serve as his muses and consequently makes the story more "interactive" and the writing experience a little spicier for the reader not to mention the writer. For more information on this book, please visit www.blasianexchangesanovel.blogspot.com Sam Cacas writes a column on Black-Asian unity for AsianWeek.com and also co- moderates a Yahoo! discussion group – PowerCouples AMBW – focusing on Black women and Asian men. His nonfict writing has been published in San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Bay Area Reporter, San Jose Mercury News, Advocate, Human Rights (ABA), and California CEO. BlAsian Exchanges, a novel is his first book. Founded on October 13, 1985 by “Auntie Helen” Agcaoili Summers Brown, FAL is the first and largest Filipino library in the country with a collection of more than 6,000 titles. Its mission is to actively promote the history, culture, and professional achievements of Filipinos and Filipino Americans through the book collection, leadership development, and cultural programming, thereby contributing to the achievement of a culturally dynamic, multiethnic America. Given that FAL primarily survives on individual donations and one major annual fundraiser, we hope we can rely on your financial support so we can continue our programs and services throughout the year. Please feel free to donate online at www.filipinoamericanlibrary.org. If you would like to send a check, please make it payable to “Filipino American Library” and mail it to 135 N. Park View St., Los Angeles, CA 90026. All donations are 100% tax-deductible. FAL is a division of the Filipino American Heritage Institute (Nonprofit Tax ID Number 95-4282571). It is open Mondays-Fridays 1:00-5:00pm and by appointment. For more information, please contact Jonathan Lorenzo, the FAL Administrator, at 213-382-0488 or filamlibrary@sbcglobal.net. (If you would like pictures to include for publication, please contact Jonathan Lorenzo.)

JONATHAN LORENZOAdministratorFilipino American Library (FAL) 135 N. Park View St. Historic Filipinotown Los Angeles, CA 90026-5215Tel: 213-382-0488Fax: 213-382-0478Email: filamlibrary@sbcglobal.netDonate Online: www.filipinoamericanlibrary.org- Visit us MON-FRI 1-5pm & by appt. -