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Trump Administration Plans to Hold Thousands of Migrants at Guantanamo
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersPolitics

Trump Administration Plans to Hold Thousands of Migrants at Guantanamo

JennFebruary 4, 2025February 4, 2025

Over the last two weeks, ICE conducted several raids across the country, and have reportedly detained 8,000 immigrants. While NBC…

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Trump Makes Moves to End Federal DEI Initiatives
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersPolitics

Trump Makes Moves to End Federal DEI Initiatives

JennJanuary 24, 2025January 24, 2025

The Trump administration made several moves this week to end federal diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Among the most…

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States, ACLU Sue Trump White House to Halt Unconstitutional Attack on Birthright Citizenship
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersImmigrationPolitics

States, ACLU Sue Trump White House to Halt Unconstitutional Attack on Birthright Citizenship

JennJanuary 21, 2025January 24, 2025

Less than a day after President Trump signed an Executive Order targeting birthright citizenship, several states joined together to file…

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Trump Assaults Birthright Citizenship, Ends White House Initiative on AANHPI
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersPolitics

Trump Assaults Birthright Citizenship, Ends White House Initiative on AANHPI

JennJanuary 20, 2025January 23, 2025

Within hours of his inauguration today, President Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders – many of them foreshadowed…

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Three Faculty of Color Killed in University of Nevada-Las Vegas Shooting
Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders

Three Faculty of Color Killed in University of Nevada-Las Vegas Shooting

JennDecember 8, 2023December 11, 2023

This post was updated on December 11, 2023 to include the identity of the third shooting victim, Dr. Naoko Takemaru.…

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Young Texas Asian Americans don’t feel represented in government
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersElectionsGuest ContributorsPolitics

Young Texas Asian Americans don’t feel represented in government

Guest ContributorNovember 30, 2023November 30, 2023

AUSTIN, TEXAS. — Austin, Texas is known as a liberal haven in a famously red state. The city should be…

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Filipinx American Identity: A Personal (Ongoing) Journey of Positionality 
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

Filipinx American Identity: A Personal (Ongoing) Journey of Positionality 

Guest ContributorSeptember 27, 2023September 27, 2023

About a year ago, I stood before the faculty and students of my psychology graduate program and declared, “Before I…

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My great-grandfather had a horse and a pistol.
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

My great-grandfather had a horse and a pistol.

Guest ContributorJuly 7, 2023July 7, 2023

He had a horse and a pistol. He also had a house that was so big that when British soldiers…

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Asian Americans must reckon with how the fight to remove affirmative action is rooted in anti-Blackness
Affirmative ActionAsian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest Contributors

Asian Americans must reckon with how the fight to remove affirmative action is rooted in anti-Blackness

Guest ContributorJuly 5, 2023July 5, 2023

Asian Americans must reckon with the fact that this latest blow of injustice was made in our name. Again.

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“A Great Divide” is a Compelling Exploration of anti-Asian Racism that Deserves More Time
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersMovies

“A Great Divide” is a Compelling Exploration of anti-Asian Racism that Deserves More Time

Frankie HuangJuly 2, 2023July 2, 2023

An expansive, desolate wilderness. A lone, gleaming mansion on a hill. A family arrives at their palatial new abode, but…

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Where I Am Really From: Or, Sometimes I Think About the Etymology of ‘Gook’
Asian Americans & Pacific IslandersGuest ContributorsPersonal Essays

Where I Am Really From: Or, Sometimes I Think About the Etymology of ‘Gook’

Guest ContributorJune 29, 2023June 30, 2023

Sometimes I think about the fact that Robert Aaron Long carried out the 2021 Atlanta spa shooting on the fifty-third anniversary of the infamous massacre at Mỹ Lai.

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Re-imagining Reappropriate to better serve our readers
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Re-imagining Reappropriate to better serve our readers

JennJune 17, 2023June 17, 2023

This year marks just over twenty years of Reappropriate. I first launched this site in December of 2002 as a…

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