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.
Category Archive: Asian American history
The media did not take Andrew Yang’s path-breaking and radical campaign seriously. Seulghee Lee explains why so many got Yang so wrong.
Chia-Chia Lin’s novel captures the bittersweet flavor of Asian-American dreams – those broken and realized alike.
A divide-and-conquer strategy for plantation labor led to the building of an extraordinary interracial coalition in Hawaii, argues historian Miyako Martinez.
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.
The “family” has been so critical in the stories we tell ourselves and others about ourselves. Even the […]
Hip-hop’s founding myth places the culture’s birth at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, where on a summer […]
In the summer of 2014, my grandma began digging into the old pile of long-forgotten photographs she hoarded […]