I’ve been disappointed and frustrated more than usual lately because I feel like the whole world is fallin’ for the trap of our current president. To be insensitive, racist and a sexist all in one before our very eyes has been the standards set for Americans, driven full force by our ...
Little Tokyo — the Japanese Americans have been moved out to internment camps. African Americans have moved in and a family discovers a young Japanese American hiding. Do they help him? Or betray him? Sermons and Angels (EWP, 2009) ElleVis, a guardian angel, loses a soul and saves ...
At this very moment, so many of them — our fellow Americans — they’re on the frontlines of this pandemic, trying to save lives, and still — still — they are forced to live in fear for their lives just walking down streets in America. It’s wrong, it’s un-American...
I was told to leave this country because Asian Americans are perpetual foreigners. My sons, who witnessed this and have told the story to their friends, will say, “We were told to go back to where we came from.” They took the white man’s comments personally. There is some irony in...
Americans with ancestral ties to Asia have made countless significant contributions throughout the country’s history, most have never made it into textbooks. From atomic science, to labor rights, to YouTube, here are a few examples of some of the major advancements made by Asian Americans. ...
has impacted Korean Americans, South Asians, Thai Americans, Filipino Americans, andeven Latinx Americans. Building on the momentum, politicization, and racial awareness catalyzed by the ongoing Black Lives Matter movement, Asian Americans and their non-Asian allies can reject the model minority myth...
Americans. Even programs forCountering Violent Extremismhave too often harmed law-abiding members of minority communities. Elizabeth has a plan for police reform that would fundamentally change how police work is done in America, replacing failed policies with effective, evidence-based practices that do...
actual aggression”); (3) absence of the Asian American experience in medical school (“They’re not going to mention Asian Americans at all”); (4) ignored while seeking support (“I don’t know what it means to have this part of my identity supported”); and (5) envisioning the ...
“You have a lot of Asian Americans who are excited to see an Asian American candidate who's doing as well as he's doing,” Ramakrishnan said, “I think his ability to gain more support in the Asian American community will depend both on increasing his name recognition, but also goin...
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