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Loving Loving
I remember driving down to rural Caroline County, Virginia, in 1992, to visit Mildred Loving. I was writing a piece for The Washington Post about the 25th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 landmark Supreme Court case that struck down barriers to interracial marriage, and I wanted to visit the woman whose name was […]
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East of California
Asian American studies, like other ethnic studies programs, was developed to help change the focus of college curricula from the achievements of great white men to the history, demographics, experiences and needs of everyone in this diverse nation. The Third World Strikes at San Francisco State and U.C. Berkeley in 1968 and 1969 established California […]
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Asian Am. Studies Conference in Chicago
The 25th annual Association for Asian American Studies Conference held in Chicago last week had workshops, panel discussions, literary readings, neighborhood tours, banquets — and an earthquake.
Like previous AAAS conferences, this one provided opportunities for out-of-towners to get out and see the local APA community. The Chinatown -
A Better Electoral System
Each year at this time, I ask my Asian Pacific American public policy students at the University of Maryland to compare the electoral systems of the United States with those of the other democracies of the world. We select one country from the following list: the United Kingdom, Ireland,
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Anniversaries: 10 and 30
This month marks my 10th year as an AsianWeek columnist and my 30th year as a regular contributor to Asian Pacific American community journalism. I have a yellowed cover from the June 8, 1978, New York Nichibei on my shelf, which represents the first time I wrote for that
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A Teachable Moment on Race
Forty years ago, this nation came to grips with the stark reality that racial segregation and the unfair treatment of African Americans was still with us, almost two centuries after the founding of the Republic. After a year spent researching the urban unrest that had erupted in several cities in 1967, the National Advisory Commission […]
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Mining the Home Movie
Why would any serious scholar be interested in home movies? We’ve all seen them. The kids in Cousin Shirley’s backyard pool splashing the puppy. Your best friend’s shots of himself gawking at the camera in front of every monument in Europe.
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We Have A Dream
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has been historic from the start. Building on the candidacies of Jesse Jackson and other African American candidates, he has gone further than any previous non-white campaigner.
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2009: The Year of Michi Weglyn
Consider this story: A minority woman, due to circumstances beyond her control, does not finish college. Instead, she embarks on a career in fashion design and serves as costume designer for one of the biggest television shows of her generation.
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jabba wockeez roCkS!!
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Unfortuantely, Asian "interest groups" have taken a cue from the Sharpton/Jackon clique. Everyone wants a grubby hand in the racial spoils trough.
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Who cares what the census says? By that stupid logic someone from Vladivostok should also be considered for this award.
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"White lords"? Oh jeez. You couldn't use more cilched liberal arts language if you tried. That being said, I agree they should have chosen an asian to play the asian character.
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"We need immigrants willing to do some of the low paying jobs in order to keep the inflation low. " Nonsense.
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I agree with your comment. In most cases we are left alienated however, Asians are expected to perform well academically by the school system.
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Obama's efforts to connect to the Republican Party, specifically Bush, and Dick Cheney, of the Halliburton Company, dates back to the Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and indeed Cheney was once an executive officer of Halliburton.
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Er... Hello? This is AMERICA!!! If whites want to live in Chinatown, why the hell not? If you want to live amongst the Chinese, take a one-way to Beijing from JFK.
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Regarding the CCSF expansion: All you have to do is look at who was being paid by the Hilton lobby group, and who was volunteered their time to mobilize and educate the community.
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Huang Fong: You continue to one-up everyone else hereabouts. And I love it. However, forty-buck meals are now history in the starched-linen precincts of our finer-diner establishments, even as four-buck meals are barely within reach for the common working stiff.
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