RISE: A Pop History of Asian America From the Nineties to Now. By Jeff Yang, Phil Yu and Philip Wang. Now available everywhere from Harper Books: https://harpercollins.com/pages/Rise
Today’s (5/5) Google Doodle celebrates the life and work of late photographer, journalist and activist Corky Lee — the unofficial photographer laureate of Asian America. Rest in peace. https://google.com/doodles/celebrating-corky-lee…
See you tonight at the VC x JANM Party in Little Tokyo! Kicking off the 39th edition of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and AANHPI Heritage Month.
On the left is my 9-yr-old daughter during the 2007 strike. On the right is her today—a writer on the staff of a big-budget Amazon show and a strike captain. She is the reason we went on strike then, and here she is fighting for her generation and the next.
I wrote about the eviction of Little Tokyo's Suehiro Cafe. I ask whether rail development is reproducing freeway racism, because it's most harmful effects are borne by Chinatown, Boyle Heights, Inglewood, Little Tokyo, Koreatown and others. https://latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-03/historic-suehiro-eviction…
I just got this message on IG and was given permission to share it.
I try not to be too self important, but like. These books fucking matter. She was horrified. She deserved to know. She wasn't protected as a child when no one told her. They were just setting her up.
Another year, more of the same. When survey respondents were asked to name a famous Asian American figure, top responses were:
Don't Know 26%
Jackie Chan 12%
Bruce Lee 6%
-- The Shib Sibs! -- about their new book AMAZING: Asian American and Pacific Islanders Who Inspire Us All. And they discuss The Good/Bad/WTF of working with your sibling.
The belief that China is a threat has implications for perceptions of #AsianAmericans
Most Americans think of #China when they think of the AsianAms' countries of origin
Recall that 1 in 4 Americans believe that AsianAms are MORE LOYAL to their country of origin than to the US
78% of Americans see #China as a threat. Among those who do...
83% believe that China is a military/national security threat
74% believe that China is an economic threat
31% of Americans believe that #AsianAmericans should be subject to MORE SCRUTINY when working in areas considered critical to US global strategic competitiveness
1 in 4 Americans believe that #AsianAmericans are MORE LOYAL to their country of origin than to the United States
1 in 5 Americans still believe that Asian Americans are partly responsible for #COVID19
🚨 JUST OUT ➡️ The 2023 STAATUS Index
Now in its third year, the STAATUS Index (Social Tracking of #AsianAmericans in the US) is the leading nationally representative survey of Americans' attitudes towards #AsianAmericans🧵of some findings
Happy #AAPIHeritageMonth!
People usually trace Asian Am movements to 1968, but I found an old newspaper article that made me rethink that
Check out this thread about the 1907 launch of
1/ The standard story of the Asian American movement begins in the 1960s
But I just found an old newspaper article about an "Oriental Students Association" in 1907 California, with members from India, China, Siam, and Japan.
Here's the story https://secretdesihistory.com/oriental-students-association-793e40f71896…
As I say perennially: for some of us, every month is Heritage Month. May is just the month we officially make you celebrate with us. So yay go learn something. Or whatever.
Happy Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Yes, we get a month, as decreed by the U.S. government. May your celebrations be loud, proud and delicious.
"Despite corroborating statements confirming Mr. Perkins' use of anti-Asian, racist slurs such as 'chink' and 'ching chong' [AT STUDENTS, IN THE CLASSROOM]... the WSD investigator still found no grounds for a determination of harassment."
Thank you to the BSC super fans for making this story happen. I’m so grateful to tell Hodges Soileau’s story. Here’s a link to the @washingtonpost story: https://wapo.st/3VderlE
Bullying and hate continue to harm our youth. On May 18, we are honoring #VincentChin and empowering #AAPIyouth to speak up against injustice.
Join our special Gala ft.
FYI: The excellent documentary FREE CHOL SOO LEE is making its broadcast premiere on PBS' Independent Lens starting April 24. https://pbs.org/independentlens/blog/what-happened-to-chol-soo-lee/…
, host of the podcast K-POP DREAMING, a journey through the rise and history of K-pop in the U.S., mapped against Vivian's own Korean American coming-of-age in Los Angeles.