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Part 55 (1) An interview with Yumiko Murakami, one of the first to focus on Asian America

Murakami Yumiko, a writer and researcher of ethnic culture, has been reporting on Japanese American…

Ryusuke Kawai • Dec. 13, 2024

Asian Americans authors Japanese Americans Taro Yashima

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Part 53: What is Asian America?

Start by knowing When the new coronavirus, which was first identified in Wuhan, China, also raged …

Ryusuke Kawai • Oct. 25, 2024

Asian Americans book reviews ethnicity group identity identity reviews

The JABA Legacy Project: Justice Sabrina McKenna—The First Openly LGBTQ Asian American to Serve on a State Court of Last Resort

As the first openly LGBTQ Asian American to serve on a state court of last resort, Justice Sabrina …

Lana Kobayashi • Sept. 2, 2022

Asian Americans Hawai'i LGBTQ+ people United States

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Asian representation: It’s getting better, but still has ages-old challenges

Japanese Americans and the wider Asian Americans and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities are seeing…

Gil Asakawa • Dec. 22, 2021

Asian Americans Madama Butterfly (play) opera stereotypes

Japanese American Soldiers in World War II Fought the Axis Abroad and Racial Prejudice at Home

Imagine being forced from your home by the government, being imprisoned in a detention camp under a…

Susan H. Kamei • June 18, 2021

armed forces Asian Americans Hawai'i Japanese Americans retired military personnel United States United States Postal Service veterans World War II World War II camps

My Name is Neal

Journal Entry #First Aired 3/30/64: "What's the Question?"

A weekly visual journal/cartoon about an easily-annoyed fourth generation American of Japanese desc…

Neal Yamamoto • April 10, 2021

Asian Americans cartoonists cartoons humor racism

The Commodification of Asian Americans

It is strange to be a commodity. When I was younger, I didn’t like the fact that I was Asian. Even…

Kyra Karatsu • Jan. 22, 2021

Asian Americans identity Japanese Americans

Keywords For Being Nikkei In A Moment of Racial Reckoning

“I recognized that the heartbeat, historically, of racism, has been denial.” — Ibram Kendi B…

Tamiko Nimura • July 15, 2020

Asian Americans history identity racism

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I've heard "Go back where you came from" too often

I was driving on the highway one night some years back between Denver and Boulder, when I got haras…

Gil Asakawa • Oct. 9, 2019

Asian Americans Donald J. Trump identity racism

Tad Nakamura, His Life and FSN 1972

Los Angeles’s Japanese American community has always been ‘home’ to filmmaker, Tad Nakamura. Growin…

Kayla Tanaka • July 26, 2019

Asian Americans At First Light (exhibition) At First Light: The Dawning of Asian Pacific America exhibitions filmmakers generations Japanese American National Museum Japanese American National Museum (organization) Japanese Americans Visual Communications (organization) Yonsei

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