10 examples of #AAPI’s rich history of resistance
In the wake of the #AsianPrivilege response hash-tag to #NotYourAsianSidekick and #BlackPowerYellowPeril, it appears as if (among other misguided ideas)…
Category: History
Hawaii Five-O tackles Pearl Harbour and Japanese American internment, and it was incredible
I can’t figure out why lists of positive, progressive representations of Asian Americans on primetime television keep forgetting Hawaii Five-O. Really.…
Abercrombie & Fitch is an exclusionary company?!? Colour me shocked.
There’s this viral thing going around the Internet: Jes Baker of the Militant Baker, angered by comments made by Abercrombie &…
Former Japanese American Internee Answers Questions in “Ask Me Anything” Feature on Reddit
A Japanese American woman, now a grandmother, was interned at Tule Lake during WWII. Recently, on Reddit, she was featured…
I Am a Child of the Vincent Chin Tragedy
Thirty years ago, today, on June 23, 1982, Vincent Chin died. Four days earlier, Vincent Chin was brutally beaten by…
Rodney King Dead at 47: Thoughts on his Life, and Remembering Sa-I-Gu
The news just broke that Rodney King, whose videotaped beating at the hands of LAPD in 1991 and the subsequent acquittal…
RIP William Hohri, Champion of Internees’ Lawsuit Against Government
I just found out that William Hohri, the lead plaintiff who spear-headed the National Council for Japanese American Redress (NCJAR)…
It’s Official – January 30th is Fred Korematsu Day in California
(H/T Angry Asian Man, Korematsu Institute) It’s official! Thanks in no small part to community efforts spearheaded by the Korematsu…
Tell Gov. Schwarzenegger to Support Fred Korematsu Day
My latest post over at Change.org: Tell Gov. Schwarzenegger to Support Fred Korematsu Day From Arizona’s SB1070 to anti-government rhetoric…
Jeff Yang’s “Born in the U.S.A.”
Jeff of “Asian Pop” has written a brilliant column this week, exploring the irony of the GOP’s war on birthright citizenship…
Remembering the Victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
(see all the unpublished photos taken of the ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from Life Magazine) Today — August 6th,…