Category Archive: Asian American history

All Together on a Life Raft in the Wine-Dark Sea

Pandemic life has shown us that loneliness and togetherness are closer to each other than we once thought.

When Is Asian American Life Grievable?

Seulghee Lee discusses pernicious misconceptions about anti-Asian hate and violence — notions often promoted by Asian American intellectuals themselves.

Love Note to and Mourning for Asian American Atlanta

Stan Thangaraj on the city and the communities he loves, in an ocean of tragedy.

The Quixotic Search for South Asian Media Representation

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

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

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

Coronavirus, Racism, and the Health of Our Communities

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.

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

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

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

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