Asian Americans must reckon with how the fight to remove affirmative action is rooted in anti-Blackness
Asian Americans must reckon with the fact that this latest blow of injustice was made in our name. Again.
Tag: Anti-Blackness
Asians 4 Black Lives: Structural Racism is the Pandemic, Interdependence and Solidarity is the Cure
By Guest Contributor: Asians4BlackLives (@Asians4BlkLives) This essay was originally posted on Medium, and is republished here at the request of…
Focusing on Parasite’s Success Misses an Opportunity to Challenge Anti-Blackness
By Guest Contributor: Nicholas Wong Last month, people around the world celebrated the underdog success of Korean film Parasite as…
Andrew Yang’s Problematic Reinforcement of the Model Minority Myth
Tonight, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Andrew Yang joined the nine other top Democratic presidential candidates on the debate stage at Texas…
#NotYourModelMinority: Asian Americans Are Not Your Proof that Donald Trump Isn’t Racist
Asian Americans are not your model minorities. We are not your wedges. We are not your license for guilt-free anti-blackness.…
Respect Must be Earned: BTS’ Journey Towards Gaining its Stripes in Black America
By Guest Contributor: Monique Jones (@moniqueblognet) A version of this post first appeared on Just Add Color. When I first wrote…
The Power of Anti-Black Ideology
By Guest Contributor: Sudip Bhattacharya The acquittal of police officer, Betty Shelby, in the shooting death of Terence Crutcher was…
26 Years After the Murder of Latasha Harlins, Asian Americans Still Have a Lot of Work to do Around Anti-Blackness
In Charlotte, North Carolina, the Black community is calling for a boycott of Missha Beauty after the owner Sung Ho…
Unpacking Get Out’s “Asian” character
By Guest Contributor: Melissa Phruksachart (@mphruksachart) Though Jordan Peele’s Get Out has been primarily read (and marketed) as an excoriation of white…
In Search of a More Authentic Metaphor for the Asian American Struggle
Guest Contributor: Dr. Keith Chan This article appears as a response to a recent guest writing by Mark Tseng Putterman that…
5 Lessons I Learned While Protesting a Trump Rally
By Guest Contributor: Sudip Bhattacharya “I need to pee, and I need a cookie,” I told my friend as we drove…
Dear Black Folks
By Guest Contributor: Stacy G Dear Black folks I don’t know what it’s like to question authority because I had…