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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.

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.”

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

Hunter College/CUNY Computer Science PhD student Yiming Tang, mentored by Raffi Khatchadourian, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE) of Concordia University in Canada.

Many people arrested in assaults on Asian residents in New York have had a history of mental health episodes, arrests and homelessness, complicating the city’s search for an effective response.

Media response to the Atlanta massacre shows why ethnic studies is so essential.