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Jeff Yang ponders whether Barack Obama could become the first Asian American president, even though he’s black, just like Bill Clinton was once called the first black president, even though he’s white.
My trip to Chicago last week for the Unity Journalists of Color convention drew some parallels the “Across Asian Middle America” feature in the Road Trip Issue of Hyphen, which hits the streets in August. Read More …
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.
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 …
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 …
According to a senior thesis by Jenny Tsai, some Asian American students at Harvard ” ‘act white because ‘acting Asian’ is equated with acting foreign or like a nerd.” Tsai’s paper seems to describe a Read More …
Asian Americans, Latinos and African Americans have a deep mistrust of each other and engage in significant stereotyping, a poll found, but a majority of those surveyed said they should put aside differences.
The University of California is figuring out that Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders don’t all look the same.
Yellow alert from presidential candidate Fred Thompson, who says Hillary Clinton’s association to illegal fundraising by Asian Americans in 1996 should have made her cautious about accepting $850,000 from fugitive Norman Hsu.
Since visiting last year, I take an interest at any news I come across about South Africa. This Los Angeles Times story highlights a long-simmering problem of social unrest in Zimbabwe and the mass migration Read More …