Carly Fiorina, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, and how the GOP will fail in their courtship of the AAPI vote
It should come as no surprise that the progressive expansion of America’s non-White populations has left the Grand Old Party in a turmoil.…
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Cops: Toddler Disfigured By Grenade in “No-Knock” Raid a “Criminal”, To Blame For His Injuries | #JusticeForBouBou
(H/T @boygainvillea) Last year, nineteen month-old Bounkham “Bou Bou” Phonesavanh was sleeping peacefully in his playpen in Habersham County, Georgia.…
I Want Off This Culture of Hype
Last week, I saw Mad Max: Fury Road, and I really enjoyed it. Yes, I found the film refreshing for all the…
Asian American Student Suicide Rate at MIT is Quadruple the National Average
Regular readers of this blog will know that mental health, depression and suicide within the Asian American community is a topic…
Espenshade: Data are not Proof of anti-Asian Discrimination | #Edu4All
Thomas Espenshade Since the publication in 2009 of his influential study (with co-author Alexandria Walton Radford) on admission patterns in…
Duke University Prof Makes Online Tirade Against “the Blacks” and “the Asians”
Duke University political science professor Jerry F. Hough — alumnus of Harvard University whose specialty is domestic identity formation at the…
Asian American US Civil Rights Commissioners Issue Statement on Harvard Affirmative Action Complaint | #Edu4All
Today, a group of between 40 and 50 Asian American organizations will hold two coordinated press conferences in Washington DC and…
135+ AANHPI Organizations Come Together In Support of Affirmative Action | #Edu4All
Last year, California was poised to return affirmative action to the state’s institutions of higher education via a state constitutional amendment…
There Can Be No Room in this Movement for Misogyny
It’s not easy being a feminist of colour. There’s this presumption that we as minority women can divorce our feminism…
Man Who Savagely Beat Hmong American Hunter Sentenced to 10 Days in Jail
Last year, I blogged about the story of Sao Lue Vang. Vang is a 64-year-old Hmong American man who was out…
May 4: The Culture Canard of the Model Minority Myth | #APAHM2015 #ReappropriateRevisited
For this year’s AAPI Heritage Month, I will take each day to pull one of my favourite posts or pieces from the…
May 3: The Overlooked Battle Against Depression and Suicide Among SE Asian Americans | #APAHM2015 #ReappropriateRevisited
For this year’s AAPI Heritage Month, I will take each day to pull one of my favourite posts or pieces from the…