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CSUN Today
April 28, 2018
The AAPI Heritage Month event is designed to honor ethnic heritage through a connection with ancestral cuisine. CSUN students, staff, faculty and community members are encouraged to share their thoughts on how food relates to identity or understanding of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders heritage viaÃâà...
Patch.com
April 28, 2018
SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA – Attorneys representing the city of Santa Clara and a group of Asian-American residents who filed a lawsuit alleging the city's election system dilutes the power of their votes presented closing arguments Thursday morning and now await a judge's ruling. Santa Clara votersÃâà...
Swarthmore College The Phoenix Online
April 27, 2018
Earlier this semester, Swarthmore Asian Organization announced that the college will be offering the student-run course “Introduction to Asian American Studies” in the education studies department. The course will cover topics such as the history of Asian American immigration, present-day intermarriage,Ãâà...
wgbh.org
April 27, 2018
In their study, they found that whites were more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with mental health disorders than Asian Americans, and even among ... Fan said if providers were better able to understand this stigma and the vocabulary many Asian-American patients use to communicate emotional orÃâà...
NBCNews.com
April 27, 2018
Drawing on family stories, creators craft new generation of Asian-American superheroes. Comic giants Marvel and DC as well as smaller publishers have introduced a wider range of diverse characters in recent years. by Lakshmi Gandhi / Apr.26.2018 / 5:49 AM ET. Sketches of Tai, a character in the upcoming "GreenÃâà...
The Daily Princetonian
April 27, 2018
While the work of pioneering Asian-American scholars to assert an Asian-American identity by isolating and homogenizing it was politically important, Cheng encouraged thinking about Asian Americans studies in relation to other categories and Asian-American-ness itself as a very heterogeneous categoryÃâà...
OCRegister
April 26, 2018
The recent promotion of the Asian American Studies Program to a department. Ãâ÷ The third annual Titan Night Market, held April 18, which celebrates the Titan experience through the lens of the campus's Asian American community. “That's what we're here for tonight — to stand visible and united as one,Ãâà...
New York Times
April 26, 2018
Her essay perpetuates a stereotype about Asian-Americans that may bear a hint of truth for some families but that buries the diversity of immigrant stories and perspectives. It paints my parents and the parents of my Asian-American peers as unassimilated foreigners whose children need an instructionÃâà...
HuffPost
April 26, 2018
“An entire generation in the United States missed out on seeing Asian-American families represented in film and television. This is significant since families are central to belonging and community,” Wang Yuen wrote in a blog for HuffPost. “The exclusion of Asian-American families from popular cultureÃâà...
CBS San Francisco Bay Area
April 24, 2018
SANTA CLARA (KPIX 5) — Asian Americans make up about a third of Santa Clara's population, but you would never know it by looking at the faces on the city council. Now, Asian American voters are taking the city to court to make their political voices heard. Wesley Mukoyama is a plaintiff in a lawsuit filedÃâà...
The Ithacan
April 24, 2018
IPAAFF is a student-run, student-led festival meant to support Asian American and Pacific Islander film, video and media makers by promoting films created by, starring or about Asian Americans. It was created by Katie Quan '15 and has been held annually since 2015. This year's festival was put togetherÃâà...
Oregon Daily Emerald
April 24, 2018
Last weekend, the Eugene community gathered together for the DisOrient Asian American Film Festival of Oregon, a five day film festival packed with 12 ... Mak explained to the crowd how Asian-Americans' owning of laundromats and restaurants stems from the fact that there used to be legal limitations onÃâà...
Smithsonian
April 23, 2018
Monument Marks Little-Remembered Case That Set Precedent for Asian Americans to Testify in Court ... most of the trans-Mississippi West for Chinese litigants, and it was even used to apply to other Asian-American minorities,” write Arif Dirlik and Malcolm Yeung in Chinese on the American Frontier.
NextShark
April 23, 2018
There are now more Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) than ever participating in American politics, an apparent shift from the inactivity that the group has long been criticized for. The increase has been observed in both the numbers of candidates and voters. For one, a record number of AAPIsÃâà...
Edwards Air Force Base
April 23, 2018
To kick off Edwards AFB's observance, volunteers will be handing out leis, event calendars and cake May 1 from 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in the Exchange entry way. This year's annual cultural show and food tasting event is May 22 at the Airman and Family Readiness Center from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. The eventÃâà...
New York Times
April 5, 2018
“Democrats' failure to mobilize” Asian-Americans, Desai writes, “has been a major missed opportunity.” Outside of Virginia, many other swing states and House districts — in California, Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and elsewhere — have meaningful Asian-American populations.
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
March 5, 2018
For many students, the event was a networking opportunity for students and activists who share a mutual interest in topics frequently encountered by Asian-Americans. “I heard this was a great place to network and talk about social issues related to Asians in general,” said Calvin Xie '18, University ofÃâà...
Mills Campanil
March 3, 2018
This 2018 Winter Olympics has been an amazing time for the Asian-Americans on the U.S. team. In snowboarding, Chloe Kim at 17-years-old became the youngest female to win a medal, taking gold. Vincent Zhou became the first skater to land a quadruple lutz jump in any Olympic game ever.
CNN
March 3, 2018
But when it comes to Hispanic-Americans and Asian-Americans, the Academy Awards still have a long way to go to flip the script. Take a look ... And what you see is that even as African-Americans have fared better in recent years, Hispanic-Americans and Asian-Americans are woefully underrepresented.
The Rafu Shimpo
March 3, 2018
According to 2015 ACS data, nearly 69,000 Asian Americans in the region are burdened by the high cost of housing, spending 30 percent or more of their household income on housing costs. Over 52 percent of Asian American renters and 49 percent of Asian American homeowners with a mortgage spendÃâà...
New York Times
March 3, 2018
It also provided a social alternative for Asian-Americans who felt excluded from the night life scenes in the meatpacking district and the Lower East Side. But its exclusive nature was not embraced by everyone. In 2013, after nearly a dozen non-Korean clubgoers complained to the New York attorney generalÃâà...
Splinter (blog)
March 2, 2018
The absence of visible Asian Americans in music points to pretty clear racism, obviously. But it also points to the broader issue of what, exactly, it means to be Asian American. That's a complicated conversation, especially since America has a fairly narrow idea of what a person of Asian descent looks likeÃâà...
OCRegister
March 1, 2018
Asian American studies was pivotal in the launch of CSUF's Asian Pacific American Resource Center and continues to partner with such groups as the Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance, Korean Resource Center, Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Orange County andÃâà...
Cornell University The Cornell Daily Sun
March 1, 2018
The Residential Student Congress called for the creation of an Asian and Asian-American cultural residential area consisting of one floor in a residence hall by passing a resolution in a Monday meeting, according to a Facebook post. The resolution encouraged the University to consider establishing aÃâà...
89.3 KPCC
February 21, 2018
More than two-thirds of the San Gabriel Valley's burgeoning Asian-American population is made up of immigrants, according to a new report. Nearly 525,000 Asian-Americans call the San Gabriel Valley home, and about 67 percent of them are foreign-born, according to the report released Wednesday byÃâà...
The Hill
February 20, 2018
People do not think of border security as an Asian-American issue. The $25 billion wall for border security would result in more deportations and harm to border communities and the environment. It is wasteful and bad policy. I refuse to believe that the senators who voted for the Rounds-King proposal trulyÃâà...
HuffPost
February 16, 2018
As Ellen D. Wu, a history professor at Indiana University Bloomington and author of The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority, writes, Asian-American assimilation was a necessity born out of segregation. Racist episodes such as the U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act and theÃâà...
The Boston Globe
February 6, 2018
A State House effort to categorize Asian-Americans into specific ethnic groups is clashing with a vocal and well-organized opposition that has likened the effort to racial ... But critics say Chan's efforts would “subdivide Asian-American ethnic groups” and likened it to a registry to track Asian-Americans.
NBCNews.com
December 31, 1999
His election is part of a trend of growing political power for the Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, especially in the state of ... California voters will find at least a dozen Asian Americans contending for office in the June primary election, including state treasurer John Chiang, who isÃâà...
NBCNews.com
December 31, 1999
Research presented in 2016 by the Center for Asian Health at Temple University found that Asian Americans experience health disparities in cancer, chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, mental health, and among the elderly. Asian Americans had the highest mortality rate for liver andÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
December 31, 1999
Being Asian American sometimes feels like rooting for a perennially underrated and forgotten team that almost never gets a nationally televised game and is rarely discussed as a title contender. And when you finally make it to the championships, somebody mispronounces your name and your city andÃâà...
