Opinion: To be an Asian woman in America

Jennifer Ho, the daughter of a refugee father from China and an immigrant mother from Jamaica, is the director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she also holds an appointment as Professor of Ethnic Studies. She is the president of the Association for Asian American Studies, … Read more

Illinois House committee approves Asian American history curriculum proposal amid xenophobic attacks

Less than 24 hours after targeted attacks on Asian Americans in Georgia, representatives in Illinois discussed a proposal to require an Asian American history curriculum in schools. Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz says this is personal, as she’s a third-generation Chinese American. The bill sponsor said her own family faced discrimination and deportation under the Chinese Exclusion … Read more

‘Minari’ portrays strong Korean women

Although there are so many charming and poignant layers in “Minari,” the critically acclaimed film by Lee Isaac Chung about a Korean immigrant farming family, most describe it as an American Dream story. While others have rightly argued that it’s notat all about the dream (spoiler alert: think lost lifelines, lost marriages, lost identities), one … Read more