from ACJ Advisory Board Member Frances Kai-Hwa Wang:
Before I came to Michigan for graduate school, the only thing I knew about Michigan was that it was where Vincent Chin was killed. My parents’ Japanese-American neighbors warned me to sell my father’s Toyota 4Runner and buy a Ford Bronco. I asked about safety as much as I did about academics before I decided to come.
This year marks the 29th anniversary of the baseball bat beating that caused the death of Vincent Chin. Unfortunately, with the recession and rise in anti-immigrant sentiment, the case is even more relevant than ever.
click on link for more: Crime Without Punishment: Why the Death of Vincent Chin Resonates Today | InCultureParent
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Adventures in Multicultural Living: The importance of ethnic new media for filling out the conversation
from ACJ Advisory Board Member Frances Kai-Hwa Wang in AnnArbor.com:
As my children scurry around excitedly before our neighborhood’s annual Memorial Day Parade—decorating their bikes, finding bags for the candy the Girl Scouts will throw, thinking about doughnuts in the park, planning to barbeque with friends afterwards — I remind them to be respectful, that Memorial Day is not just about the parade, that it is actually a very somber occasion, one that honors the brave men and women who have given their lives to protect our freedom in America, and that although we do not glorify war, their great-grandfathers and grandfathers were all in the military.
Yet, every year when parade organizers ask if I want to bring a group of Chinese School kids to march or lion dance in the parade, I hesitate. I worry. I agree only if I can get a big group of parents to walk with the kids, as security, just in case someone thinks people who look like us do not belong.
Of course, I know that people who look like us do belong.
click on link for more: The importance of ethnic new media for filling out the conversation
As my children scurry around excitedly before our neighborhood’s annual Memorial Day Parade—decorating their bikes, finding bags for the candy the Girl Scouts will throw, thinking about doughnuts in the park, planning to barbeque with friends afterwards — I remind them to be respectful, that Memorial Day is not just about the parade, that it is actually a very somber occasion, one that honors the brave men and women who have given their lives to protect our freedom in America, and that although we do not glorify war, their great-grandfathers and grandfathers were all in the military.
Yet, every year when parade organizers ask if I want to bring a group of Chinese School kids to march or lion dance in the parade, I hesitate. I worry. I agree only if I can get a big group of parents to walk with the kids, as security, just in case someone thinks people who look like us do not belong.
Of course, I know that people who look like us do belong.
click on link for more: The importance of ethnic new media for filling out the conversation
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Prof. Goodwin Liu Withdraws Judicial Nomination | AngryAsianMan.com
From AngryAsianMan.com: May 26, 2011: Judicial nominee Goodwin Liu, who was appointed by President Obama to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, has withdrawn his nomination...
click on link for more: http://blog.angryasianman.com/2011/05/goodwin-liu-withdraws-judicial.html
More at Slate.com (via Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) who writes: "It shouldn't have turned out this way"):
http://www.slate.com/id/2295572/
click on link for more: http://blog.angryasianman.com/2011/05/goodwin-liu-withdraws-judicial.html
More at Slate.com (via Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) who writes: "It shouldn't have turned out this way"):
http://www.slate.com/id/2295572/
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Adventures in Multicultural Living: Explore the richness of the Asian Pacific American experience with literature and the arts
from ACJ Advisory Board member Frances Kai-Hwa Wang in AnnArbor.com:
Asian American writer Lisa Yee, author of Millicent Min Girl Genius, recently wrote an article for parentdish.com about how her mother instilled in her a love of reading. She opened by recollecting the books she and her mother read together:
When my daughter Hao Hao read the introduction (over my shoulder, as always), she said, "I know all those books." Then we joked that if she wrote a similar article someday, it would read, "My mom read me Ed Young, Allen Say, Laurence Yep, Grace Lin, Lisa Yee, Linda Sue Park..."
click on link for more: Explore the richness of the Asian Pacific American experience with literature and the arts
Asian American writer Lisa Yee, author of Millicent Min Girl Genius, recently wrote an article for parentdish.com about how her mother instilled in her a love of reading. She opened by recollecting the books she and her mother read together:
“When I was little, my mother and I had a nighttime ritual. After my bath, when I was zipped into my pink footie pajamas, she'd sit on the bed and read to me. Mom's voice wrapped me up in fairy tales about princesses beset by trolls, a monkey named George and the adventures of Madeline who resided in an "old house in Paris that was covered in vines.”
When my daughter Hao Hao read the introduction (over my shoulder, as always), she said, "I know all those books." Then we joked that if she wrote a similar article someday, it would read, "My mom read me Ed Young, Allen Say, Laurence Yep, Grace Lin, Lisa Yee, Linda Sue Park..."
click on link for more: Explore the richness of the Asian Pacific American experience with literature and the arts
Friday, May 20, 2011
"the failure to allow professor liu an up-or-down vote is appalling" | angry asian man
from AngryAsianMan.com:
"Still pretty angry about the filibuster of Professor Goodwin Liu's nomination to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Senate Republicans, who once upon a time argued that it was unconstitutional for senators to deprive a judicial nominee of an up-or-down vote, did just that on Thursday: Shame on GOP senators who blocked Goodwin Liu
Here's an excerpt from the press release issued by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and the Asian American Justice Center expressing outrage over the Senate's failure to pass a vote on Professor Liu's nomination:..."
click on link for more: "the failure to allow professor liu an up-or-down vote is appalling" | angry asian man
"Still pretty angry about the filibuster of Professor Goodwin Liu's nomination to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Senate Republicans, who once upon a time argued that it was unconstitutional for senators to deprive a judicial nominee of an up-or-down vote, did just that on Thursday: Shame on GOP senators who blocked Goodwin Liu
Here's an excerpt from the press release issued by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association and the Asian American Justice Center expressing outrage over the Senate's failure to pass a vote on Professor Liu's nomination:..."
click on link for more: "the failure to allow professor liu an up-or-down vote is appalling" | angry asian man
Monday, May 16, 2011
Hyphen APA Heritage Month Profiles: Helen Zia | Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics
Hyphen Magazine profiles Helen Zia for APA Heritage Month:
Helen Zia has been breaking barriers for most of her life. She was among the first women to...
click on link for more Hyphen APA Heritage Month Profiles: Helen Zia | Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics
Helen Zia has been breaking barriers for most of her life. She was among the first women to...
click on link for more Hyphen APA Heritage Month Profiles: Helen Zia | Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Adventures in Multicultural Living: Challenging stereotypes and defensiveness regarding the Geronimo codename and the Paper Tiger
from ACJ Advisory Board member Frances Kai-Hwa Wang in AnnArbor.com:
Seven-year-old Little Brother came home recently wearing a spiffy new Cleveland Indians baseball cap with a bright red Chief Wahoo embroidered on it. A gift.
He was so happy to have this special gift from special friends.
But Chief Wahoo? Seriously? Still?
I did not want to criticize the friends who gave it to him — nice, well-meaning folks who know nothing about the controversy surrounding the use of Native American caricatures as mascots.
Caught between the conflicting desires to honor this friendship and not perpetuate harmful stereotypes, I let Little Brother wear the cap around the house for a few days until the newness wore off and then let nature take its course — the cap got swallowed up and disappeared somewhere in the mess that is our house.
Then we went to the library and read about real Native Americans to gently supplant that stereotype in his young mind.
A week later, the message that Osama bin Laden had been killed came across the news, “Geronimo E-KIA” (“Enemy-Killed in Action”).
Again. Disbelief. Geronimo? Seriously? Today?
click on link for more Challenging stereotypes and defensiveness regarding the Geronimo codename and the Paper Tiger
Seven-year-old Little Brother came home recently wearing a spiffy new Cleveland Indians baseball cap with a bright red Chief Wahoo embroidered on it. A gift.
He was so happy to have this special gift from special friends.
But Chief Wahoo? Seriously? Still?
I did not want to criticize the friends who gave it to him — nice, well-meaning folks who know nothing about the controversy surrounding the use of Native American caricatures as mascots.
Caught between the conflicting desires to honor this friendship and not perpetuate harmful stereotypes, I let Little Brother wear the cap around the house for a few days until the newness wore off and then let nature take its course — the cap got swallowed up and disappeared somewhere in the mess that is our house.
Then we went to the library and read about real Native Americans to gently supplant that stereotype in his young mind.
A week later, the message that Osama bin Laden had been killed came across the news, “Geronimo E-KIA” (“Enemy-Killed in Action”).
Again. Disbelief. Geronimo? Seriously? Today?
click on link for more Challenging stereotypes and defensiveness regarding the Geronimo codename and the Paper Tiger
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