What do 19th century railroad builders have to do with 21st century home care workers? More than you’d think. - CM
Blacks and Asians Denied Entry to Dallas Bar, Ex-Employee Charges
A former employee at Kung Fu Saloon in Dallas claims she was ordered to deny reservations to callers who sounded “ghetto or too Asian.”
You literally name you bar “Kung Fu Saloon” and then turn away Asian customers? Okay then. Tell me more about how entitled you feel to other people’s cultures. - CM
The status of the Glendale comfort women memorial is going to be decided in court soon. (Constitutional scholars think the case being brought against the city of Glendale is really not likely to In the meantime, Kimberly Choi stops by as frequently as she can to help maintain the memorial. - CM
True life: one time I asked someone I just met where they were from (no, where are you really from?) after they kept prying about my ethnic heritage and they were mostly just dumbfounded.
(Someone should do one of these about stuff white people say to Desis.)
Jason Lagria of Asian Americans Advancing Justice - AAJC levels Eugene Volokh’s argument that Asians are white. With data, of course.
Eddie Huang directly addresses questions about language, reappropriation, and Fresh Off the Boat with TIME.
I have all kinds of mixed feelings about the show, but I’m definitely interested to see how things go.
KCET profiles artists working at the intersection of the Asian American & Latino communities in southern California. We particularly love Shizu Saldamando’s portraits of her friends and neighbors, bending the boundaries of race and gender.
We’ve been doing what we can to honor Yuri Kochiyama’s life, but we’ve been frustrated with the lack of mainstream coverage of her legacy and accomplishments. If the U.S. Postal Service rolled out a Yuri “forever” stamp, I’d proudly put it on all my mail.
Join us to ask the Postal Service to create a Kochiyama stamp.
Community Futures Collective
The Community Futures Collective is helping the Kochiyama family build an archive of her papers and records. Check it out!
In 1981 Yuri Kochiyama participated in the Community Documentation Workshop, and produced two zines about her life. Vol. 1 deals with her family origins, World War II, her marriage to Bill Kochiyama, and her move to New York City with him. Vol. 2 covers the Civil Rights era, meeting Malcolm X & Amiri Baraka, and the birth of the Asian American Movement.