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Dear Guardian: Jim Yong Kim is American!
Today we found out that President Obama nominated Dartmouth College president Jim Yong Kim to lead the World Bank. Dr. Kim was the first Asian American to lead an Ivy League university and is...
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WLR: comedy and tragedy
Love and marriage Newlywed Caitlin Kenney of National Public Radio appears in a video on Slate V about the cost of wedding dresses. Her new husband is Asian, making this an exciting and rare sighting...
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Three new works of Asian American fiction
One great perk of the Association for Asian American Studies conference so far has been the ability to meet some up-and-coming Asian American writers (and get free copies of their books!). At the...
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Anniversaries
Today is the 37th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon. New York Times (The Learning Network): April 30, 1975 | Saigon Falls BBC: The babies airlifted out of Saigon Disgrasian: Float On GB Tran’s...
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The Clothesline Project
The Clothesline Project (CLP) is a program started on Cape Cod, MA, in 1990 to address the issue of violence against women. It is a vehicle for women affected by violence to express their emotions by...
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Little Harvard-to-Be Prep School Academy
In writing my master’s thesis on Chinese language schools, I’m reading tons of books and articles on ethnic language schools and their cousins, ethnic cram schools. Sociologists and education scholars...
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Selections from migrantography
Some recent posts from migrantography, my migrant photography Tumblr:
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Where Koreans and Latinos overlap
A few weeks ago I took issue with John’s (8Asians) assessment that Latinos and Asian Americans “haven’t necessarily crossed paths much.” I argued that both categories are rather artificial (see The...
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Lunar new year nomenclature and the multicultural metropolis
On Sunday I stopped by the Monterey Park Lunar New Year Festival with my family. For two days, the organizers blocked off several blocks of bustling Garvey Avenue to make room for street food vendors,...
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Bank towers and the Korean ethnic economy
This photograph, which shows a young man with his bike in Los Angeles Koreatown, caught my attention yesterday not for the subject in the foreground but for what it shows in the background. The subject...
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