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March 16 - 22, 2001
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In the immortal words of James Brown, the ’60s self-proclaimed “Godfather of Soul,” “Say it loud, I’m (blank) and I’m proud”
Blank? These days it’s hard to say.
The national conversation on race is about to change, dramatically so. Between the multi-race and the uni-race among us, when it comes to identity, even the Census Bureau threw its hands in the air this year and said quite frankly, “What do you want to call yourself?”
For years, I’ve eschewed Filipino American, or the more census-correct Asian Pacific Islander, for my own term: “As-panic.”
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Lead Editorial: What It Really Means
We’re here. And we’re all human! For some time, we’ve been gearing up for the census. In 1999, outreach efforts began to encourage participation, especially in low-income, urban and minority communities, where under-counting is common compared to middle-class suburbs. Last year, census billboards could be seen throughout the Mission in San Francisco, and speakers of Russian, Spanish and Chinese were recruited to take the census door to door. And we all got our forms in the mail.
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Floss Talk:
Job Freedom. Youth columnist Queena Lu loves her work at ACT ONE while juggling work, school, and Mom.
Letters to the Editor:
Media Alert -- TV Guide Online; API Writers and Their Audience; Kudos to AsianWeek; Now Is the Time for Better Schools in S.F. |
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