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Category Archive: Asian American history

The Quixotic Search for South Asian Media Representation

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Mindy Kaling’s new Netflix series raises a vexing question: even if we agree that representation matters, what counts as good representation?

Aditya Desai May 27, 2020 Asian American history, Asian Americans, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, class, media studies, Popular culture, television

Getting the American Dirt on the Tiger Mother – or What Asian Americans Can Learn From Latinx Writers about Challenging Misrepresentation

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Why are certain stories and storytellers amplified while others are ignored or silenced?

Miliann Kang April 6, 2020 American Dirt, Asian American history, Asian Americans, class, literature, race

Coronavirus, Racism, and the Health of Our Communities

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The ugly spectre of anti-Asian racism, a mainstay of American history, is back in an even more intense and vicious form in the age of Corona.

desiballer March 22, 2020 Asian American history, Asian Americans, coronavirus, race

An Asian Man Who Likes Math: Anti-Asian Misandry and Transformative Hospitality

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The media did not take Andrew Yang’s path-breaking and radical campaign seriously. Seulghee Lee explains why so many got Yang so wrong.

seulghee March 13, 2020 Asian American history, Asian Americans, elections, gender, politics, race, radical politics

Of Abject Fathers and Angry Mothers: Chia-Chia Lin’s The Unpassing

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Chia-Chia Lin’s novel captures the bittersweet flavor of Asian-American dreams – those broken and realized alike.

Wendy Cheng March 5, 2020 Asian American history, Asian Americans, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, family, fiction, immigration, literature

Interracial Coalitions and the Hawaiian Sugar Strike of 1946

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A divide-and-conquer strategy for plantation labor led to the building of an extraordinary interracial coalition in Hawaii, argues historian Miyako Martinez.

Miyako Martinez July 15, 2019 Asian American history, Asian Americans, Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, capitalism, Hawaii, immigration, labor, Philippines, race

Green Cards and Red Lights: The Problem with Indian American Activism

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The constant emphasis on protecting the interests of “high-skilled” workers neglects everyone else and reveals the myopic biases of some migrants, argues anthropologist Stanley Thangaraj.

desiballer April 3, 2019 Asian American history, Asian Americans, class, conservatism, India, politics, race

Our Family Values, and What We Truly Value

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The “family” has been so critical in the stories we tell ourselves and others about ourselves.  Even the […]

desiballer July 18, 2018 African American history, Asian American history, conservatism, immigration, Mexican Americans, race

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