Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Asian Americans’ psychological state over the last few years has been one of hypervigilance and pretending — constantly having to act as if everything is “business as usual” even amid high-profile anti-Asian attacks and the aftereffects of collective trauma, health advocates and experts tell Axios.
Current Masters and PhD-level students are invited to apply for $3,000 awards to support their research on the experiences of people of Japanese descent in the Americas and the Pacific. Open to all nationalities and scholarly fields.
The revised statistics follow preliminary numbers that indicated a slight decrease in hate crimes that year.
“The pattern they see is regardless of whether they’re involved in these ERGs, they’re not seeing much in the way of progress,” said Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder of AAPI Data.
Internment. Incarceration. Not many people make a distinction between the two terms or understand why it’s so important to do so. But in a historic decision aimed at accuracy and reconciliation, the Los Angeles Times announced Thursday that it would drop the use of “internment” in most cases to describe the mass incarceration of 120,000 … Read more
Berkeley’s Eastwind Books — which focused on justice and solidarity, published when others wouldn’t, and stocked everything from rare recordings to academic texts to martial arts paperbacks — will close on April 30.