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Sidelined in the #NotYourAsianSidekick Discussion
Tweet In December of last year an Asian feminist conversation took Twitter by storm under the hashtag #NotYourAsianSidekick. Designed to create much-needed but difficult-to-find space for...
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Backlash for Article in Asian Fortune Magazine
Tweet Just as I thought it was going alright I found out I’m wrong, when I thought I was right It’s always the same It’s just a shame That’s all I could say day And you would say night Tell me it’s...
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Why isn’t College for Learning About Mixed-Race Identities?
Tweet There are some incredible opportunities out there right now to get certificates, higher ed and even advanced degrees specializing in the experience of Americans of color. Want a degree in Asian...
View ArticleLaw Partner Tracks & Asian Americans: Struggles to Affirm Positive Self-Identity
TweetHelen Wan’s The Partner Track is a newly published novel that paints a vivid picture of life inside a corporate law firm and the internal struggles and challenges of a female, Asian-American...
View ArticlePositive Stereotype, Tragic Outcome: Elliot Rodger and the Model Minority...
TweetThis post is by Daisy Ball and Nicholas Hartlep. Several weeks ago, 22 year old Elliot Rodger committed what has become one in a string of mass shootings in the U.S., this time in Isla Vista, CA....
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Systemic Racism and the Grading of AP Exams
Tweet Just weeks ago in Salt Lake City the national grading/reading of the Advanced Placement World History Exam became something of a playground for deeply rooted anti-Asian racism thinly veiled as...
View ArticleObama and Immigration “Reform”
TweetOn November 19, after a long delay, President Obama issued an Executive Action on Immigration Reform that contained three stipulations. First, more resources will be given to law enforcement...
View ArticleRedefining the Vocabulary of Microaggressions
Tweet A new report by Harvard University’s Voices of Diversity Project (VoD) draws on interviews with at least 50 African-American, Latina/o, Asian-American and Native American students at each of four...
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: The Asian American Race Conversation We Never Had
Tweet Phew, it got renewed. Thank goodness Fresh Off the Boat, only the second Asian American sitcom in US television history, will live on. Why am I so relieved? I’m not Taiwanese American like the...
View ArticleStill Not Doing the Right Thing: Black — Asian American Relations
TweetSpike Lee himself might be surprised — saddened, perhaps — that the Black American-Asian American dilemma of ‘90s-era Brooklyn he portrayed in “Do the Right Thing” could be a scene playing out in...
View ArticleAre Asian Americans Disadvantaged by Affirmative Action?
TweetAsian American communities are clearly split on whether affirmative action in college and university admissions disadvantages Asian American applicants. Add to this the fact that some institutions...
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What Disney’s Andi Mack Reveals about Asian Americans
Tweet (Image source) Andi Mack, a television show that features three generations of Asian American women, premiered on the Disney Channel earlier this month. The lead character “Andi” is a...
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