Interracial dating and Asian Americans always a hot subject
Jeff Yang’s Asian Pop column and a post by The Black Snob at The Dregublog last week broach a familiar topic for Asian Americans: dating and sex.
Category: Hyphen
Hyphen wins Flame of Justice award
Not only is Chinese for Affirmative Action giving Hyphen magazine office space, the longtime civil rights group honored Hyphen with one of its Flame of Justice awards for 2008 at its annual dinner last week Read More …
Offensive Fukudome shirts still for sale
Vendors outside Wrigley Field and on eBay are still selling shirts that have “Horry Kow” on the front and Japanese ball player Kosuke Fukudome’s name and number on the back. The shirts poke fun at Read More …
‘Harold & Kumar’ opens today
“Harold & Kumar: Escape From Guantanamo Bay” opens today and it’s my most anticipated movie of the year now that the new “Star Trek” has been pushed back to 2009. I know I’m not the Read More …
Turner Classic Movies to air series on Asian images
Turner Classic Movies is going to show a month-long series of movies examining images of Asians in June. It’s a extension of the network’s look at African American images and gay images it has aired Read More …
Baseball in Japan Not a Hit for Atlanta columnist
Even with all the talk of new media and the Internet, there’s still some dinosaur-like thinking out there in the journalism world. A good example is a sports column by Furman Bisher of the Atlanta Read More …
RIP Dith Pran, an Inspiration to All
Dith Pran’s life was so extraordinary it could be have been a movie, and it was. Dith, who died Sunday at age 65, inspired “The Killing Fields,” which chronicled the bloody reign of the Khmer Read More …
War with Asians column explained, questioned
Update: The editors of The Campus Press at Colorado University published a story detailing the process behind publishing a column by Max Karson that called for a war on Asians.
Colorado University columnist wants war against Asians
This column in The Campus Press at Colorado University is whacked. Max Karson’s “If it’s war the Asians want . . . it’s a war they’ll get ” column not surprisingly has got some people Read More …
Wakamatsu could become baseball’s first Asian American manager
New Oakland A’s coach Don Wakamatsu is highly regarded and may become the first Asian American manager in Major League Baseball.