8 Most Popular Posts (Last Seven Days)
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In a Post-Apocalyptic Zombie World, Asian American Man Gets White Girl
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The Difference Between Internment Camps and Concentration Camps
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A Guide To A Buddhist/Chinese/American Funeral
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The Era Of Japanese American Gardeners Coming To A Close
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Asian Guys and that One Long Pinky Fingernail
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Hizashi no Naka no Rairu
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US Table Tennis Gains visibility during the Paris Olympics
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SVAPFF 2023: ‘A Great Divide’ – Q&A and Review (Spoilers)
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Author Archives: Jeff
Alysa Liu Wins the 2025 World Figure Skating Championship
After retiring in 2022 and then unretiring in 2024, Alysa Liu has won the 2025 World Figure Skating Championship, which was held in Boston this year. She is the first American to win in 19 years. She is from Richmond … Continue reading
Posted in Local, San Francisco Bay Area, Southern California, Sports
Tagged Alysa Liu, figure skating, Michelle Kwan, Nathan Chen, Vincent Zhou
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Status of Laws Requiring the Teaching of AAPI Studies
The Committee of 100 recently released data and a visualization of that data on the status of laws and proposed laws and academic standards regarding AAPI subjects. This is an update on these laws standards since October 3, 2024. I … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Education, History
Tagged 442nd Infantry Regiment, aapi, asian american history
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Purging (and Restoring) Asian American History on US Military Websites
After reading that references to Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in baseball, were deleted from US Military websites, as part of the Trump Administration’s war against DEI and then restored after some outcry, I wondered if anything happened … Continue reading
The Long History of Chinese Americans in Texas and the Pershing Chinese
We have talked a fair amount about the history of Asian Americans in California and New York, but what about those in Texas, which has the third largest Asian American population in the United States? This Voice of America (VoA) … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Chinese Exclusion Act, Houston, John Pershing, Pershing Chinese, Texas, Unassimilable
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The Accidental Getaway Driver
The Daughter asked me if I knew anything about a movie called The Accidental Getaway Driver, and I had to confess that I had never heard anything about it. Following the link she sent, I was pleasantly surprised by the … Continue reading
The Rock Springs Massacre and “The Driving Out”
When I saw this story about historical archeologists digging in Wyoming to study a massacre of Chinese residents that happened in 1885, I thought that the Rock Springs massacre was just one of a few massacres of Chinese, such as … Continue reading
Chinatown on the Jersey Shore
Chinatown on the Jersey Shore? Sounds unlikely, but for a time, there was a Chinatown parallel to New York’s on the Jersey Shore in Bradley Beach. In the late 19th century, a program now called the Fresh Air Fund enabled … Continue reading
Great Highway Closing Reminds San Francisco Chinese Americans Voters of their History of being Unheard
San Francisco Proposition K was a ballot initiative to close the Great Highway roadway shown above and turn into to a park. Some of the roadway to the south (at the top of the picture) was going to close anyway … Continue reading
Posted in Community, History, Local, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged Great Highway, Joel Engardio, Proposition K, recall, San Francisco
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A Data-driven Analysis of the Perpetual Foreigner Stereotype
We have talked about the perpetual foreigner stereotype, but exactly how prevalent is it? Is it getting stronger or weaker? With whom is this stereotype more deeply root? A recently published paper took a data-driven approach to answer these questions. … Continue reading
Asian American Clubs among West Point Affinity Groups Shut Down
As part of the efforts to eliminate DEI in the US Federal Government, a number of Asian American Clubs at West Point (the US Army Military) academy, were disbanded. The Asian-Pacific Forum Club, the Korean-American Relations Seminar, the Vietnamese-American Cadet … Continue reading
Great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark, who established Birthright Citizenship, Talks about Trump Executive Order
The United States vs Kim Wong Ark is the case that helped guaranteed birthright citizenship – that people born in the United States would automatically be US citizens. Almost two years after the 125th Anniversary of that decision, President Donald Trump … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged birthright citizenship, Donald Trump, Norman Wong, wong kim ark
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Sheng Thao, Former Oakland Mayor, Indicted on Corruption Charges Along with Other Asian Americans
Some eight months after having her house raided by federal agents and two months after being ousted from her office in Oakland in a recall election, Sheng Thao has been officially indicted on federal charges, along with her partner Andre … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Legal, Local, Politics, San Francisco Bay Area
Tagged Oakland, Sheng Thao
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