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Phil Yu
@angryasianman
Angry Asian Man. RISE: A Pop History of Asian America From the Nineties to Now. They Call Us Bruce. All The Asians On Star Trek. Stay Angry.
angryasianman.comJoined August 2008

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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.
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Ah shit. Suehiro Cafe.
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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. latimes.com/california/sto
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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 ’s Oriental Students’ Association, sixty years before the standard origin story 👇🏽
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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 👇🏽 secretdesihistory.com/oriental-stude
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FYI: Season two of Catch! Teenieping is coming to Netflix on May 21. Look, this is exciting news in my household.
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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.
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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.
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Airing tonight on PBS, also streaming on PBS YouTube and the PBS app
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FYI: The excellent documentary FREE CHOL SOO LEE is making its broadcast premiere on PBS' Independent Lens starting April 24. pbs.org/independentlen
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