eBay auction of Japanese internment art pulled after protest
The seller said they weren’t violating eBay’s policies and said other major auction houses had sold similar art.
Non-AAARI News
Bringing It All Back Home: Author Daphne Andreades (’15) Returns as Harman Fellow
It’s all coming full circle for Daphne Palasi Andreades (’15). The up-and-coming author will serve as this semester’s Sidney Harman Writing Fellow, a part of the Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, which Ms. Andreades participated in as a Baruch student only a few years ago.
How South Asians are redefining the American dream
South Asian Americans living in the New York area and across the country walk the fine line between assimilation and maintaining ancestral cultural identity. It’s redefining the American dream by removing limitations on what it can mean.
Why some Asian Americans are embracing their heritage by dropping their anglicized names
Tshab Her grew up feeling like she lived a double life. Like many Asian Americans, the 29-year-old Hmong American artist was always switching between two names: an Asian name and her “American” name.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Hollywood Must Do More to Combat Asian Stereotypes
The THR columnist notes that while progress in the portrayal of Asians is real, it has been maddeningly slow: “Hollywood likes to sit back and congratulate itself. But prejudice doesn’t relax.”
What Asian American Student Activists Want
Many activists The Chronicle spoke to talked about feeling invisible to their universities. It seemed that some administrators didn’t think Asian American students needed additional support because of the numbers at which they enter and graduate from colleges as a whole. The model minority myth, the false perception that all Asian Americans are successful in … Read more