CUNY SPH Welcomes Visiting Scholar Masako Tanaka

While in New York City, Dr. Tanaka will be collecting data to understand Nepalese migrants’ access to contraception and abortion services in NYC, as part of a comparative study with Japan.

80 Years from Executive Order 9066: 53rd Manzanar Pilgrimage to Launch April 30

Dale Minami, Fred Korematsu’s lead counsel in his 1983 coram nobis case, Alan Nishio, former Southern California co-chair of what was then the National Coalition for Redress and Reparations, Karen Umemoto, director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, UCLA Kyodo Taiko, and Bombu Stories will be featured during the 53rd annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, to … Read more

Experts: Asian Population Overcount Masks Community Nuances

The specifics are difficult to determine because all Asian communities are grouped together under the same race category in the census. This conceals the wide variety of income, education and health backgrounds between subgroups and tends to blur characteristics unique to certain communities, some advocates said. It may also perpetuate the “model minority” myth of … Read more