The mental health toll of being a ‘model minority’ in 2020
“Especially when you talk about the invisibility of some of their issues, in a sense, it’s almost a self-fulfilling prophecy,” psychologist Richelle Concepcion said.
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Helen Zia is Developing a TV Series on the 1982 Murder of Vincent Chin and Landmark Civil Rights Case
An award-winning author and journalist, Zia has long been urged to write the as-yet untold history behind the terrible hate crime and community efforts to right egregious wrongs.
Judy Yung, Chinatown native and early scholar of Chinese-American life, dies at 74
As a San Francisco public librarian working in the Chinatown branch during the early 1970s, Judy Yung discovered a major hole in the collection, and in scholarship in general. There were no scholars on the experience of Chinese-American women, in ordinary life.
Supreme Court Punts Census Case, Giving Trump An Iffy Chance To Alter Numbers
The U.S. Supreme Court dodged a ruling on Friday on whether President Trump can exclude undocumented immigrants from a key census count.
South Asian, Chinese New Yorkers among the hardest hit by Covid, study shows
The research shows the importance of disaggregating data for Asian American patients — and the need to do more, advocates say.
A Surprising Finding on Diabetes in Vietnamese Americans
New research has found that nine out of 10 Vietnamese Americans with diabetes are not obese. Even when researchers lowered the body mass index (BMI) cut-off point for defining obesity, the researchers found that over three-quarters of diabetic Vietnamese Americans were non-obese. In comparison, only 50% of diabetic non-Hispanic whites were not obese.