Dartmouth Asian American faculty, staff and students call for establishment of Asian American studies program
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‘Is This Patriot Enough?’: Asian-American Veteran Reveals Scars as He Calls Out Bias
“People question my patriotism, that I don’t look American enough,” Lee Wong, an elected official in an Ohio township, said at a recent public meeting.
Bowen Yang Offers Incredibly Powerful Message On ‘SNL’ Against Asian American Hate
“Things for Asians in this country have been bleak for the past two weeks — and all the weeks before that since forever,” Yang said on “Weekend Update.”
How Vincent Chin’s Death Gave Others A Voice
Writer Paula Yoo was 13 years old and finishing up seventh grade when Vincent Chin was killed. Chin was a 27-year-old draftsman who was celebrating his impending wedding at a strip club in Detroit, when he was bludgeoned to death by a pair of white men. Those men were apparently upset by their perception that … Read more
What Can Universities Do to Combat Anti-Asian Racism?
After a series of shootings at Asian spas killed eight people in Atlanta – six of them Asian women – the country is undergoing a reckoning with anti-Asian racism. Asian American faculty and staff say campuses have a role to play in this moment.
‘Am I Asian Enough?’ Adoptees Struggle To Make Sense Of Spike In Anti-Asian Violence
Bethany Long Newman says she saw herself in the victims of last week’s shooting outside of Atlanta, when a gunman rampaged through three spas and killed eight people. Of the eight victims, six were women of Asian descent.