Asian American History 
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
3/1/2021
The Muddled History of Anti-Asian Violence
The COVID pandemic has led to increased hostility and violence targeting Asian Americans. Younger activists, who want to define these attacks as crimes of bias, struggle to convince the wider society that these individual incidents are part of a historical pattern of racism.
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SOURCE: The Nation
2/23/2021
Japanese Internment, Football, and a Legendary Team
Dave Zirin's Edge of Sports podcast hosts Bradford Pearson, the author of "The Eagles of Heart Mountain," the story of a group of interned Japanese American teens whose football team dominated the state of Wyoming.
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SOURCE: New York Times
2/21/2021
What This Wave of Anti-Asian Violence Reveals About America
by Anne Anlin Cheng
Trump could not have rallied the kind of hatred that he did without this country’s long history of systemic and cultural racism against people of Asian descent.
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SOURCE: Bitter Southerner
2/18/20201
Forgotten Camps, Living History: Japanese Internment in the South
by Jason Christian
Camp Livingston, deep in the Louisiana pines, used to be the site of a World War II Japanese internment camp. Drawing from the memories of internees, the research of two Louisiana State University librarians and other historians, and the activism of survivors and their descendants, this story uncovers a buried piece of American history.
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SOURCE: Bitter Southerner
2/9/2021
Houston Hip-Hop and Chinese Chicken
by Alana Dao
The story of a restaurant run by Chinese immigrants in Houston is the story of the growth of the diverse Gulf coast metropolis and its fusion of ethnic cultures.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/29/2021
Corky Lee, Who Photographed Asian-American Life, Dies at 73
Corky Lee viewed his camera as a weapon in the fight against stereotyping and discrimination against Asian Americans, and documented many important moments in the histories of Asian communities in New York and the US.
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12/6/2020
Recognizing an Unrecognized Chinese American WWII Veteran
by A.J. Wong
In December, Congress honored all Chinese American World War II veterans with the Congressional Gold Medal, and some of their families will be eligible to receive a replica medal in their names. Hoy You Lim (林開祐) was killed in action in France in 1944. None of his survivors could complete the paperwork to receive his medal. The granddaughter of another Chinese American veteran wants to recognize his service.
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SOURCE: WGBH
11/27/2020
The Legacy Of Tunney Lee: Preserving The History Of Boston's Chinatown
An interdisciplinary panel of scholars discusses the contributions of the late MIT urban studies professor Tunney Lee to historic preservation and the relationship of immigrant communities to urban environments.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/30/2020
The Country’s Oldest Chinatown is Fighting for its Life in San Francisco
Tourism to San Francisco has fallen by half since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, and tourist spending has declined even further, impacting many of Chinatown's businesses as well as its social life.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
11/18/2020
Patsy Takemoto Mink Blazed The Trail For Kamala Harris – Not Susan B. Anthony
by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Patsy Takemoto Mink, elected in 1972 as the first woman of color in Congress, deserves recognition as a pioneering advocate for gender equity and the rights of Americans Caribbean and Pacific territories, and for preparing a path for Kamala Harris's election as Vice President.
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SOURCE: WAMU
11/7/2020
‘Game-Changer’: Kamala Harris Makes History As Next Vice President
Historian Manisha Sinha contends that Kamala Harris's ascent to the vice presidency helps to make the case for America as an interracial democracy of men and women including immigrants.
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SOURCE: KJZZ
11/5/2020
ASU Professor Explains 'Interracial Racism' And The History Between Asian And Black Americans
Asian American studies scholar Karen Kuo discusses the complex relationship between Asian and African Americans and sources of solidarity and division among minority groups.
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SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
10/29/2020
The History of Hmong Americans Explains why they Might Decide the Election
by Melissa Borja
Hmong refugees were resettled in the United States after participating as US allies in military operations in Laos. American policy of dispersing refugees in small groups away from coastal areas created Hmong communities in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota.
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SOURCE: Zocálo Public Square
10/6/2020
Does a New Wave of Anti-Asian Racism Require a New Way of Fighting Back? 10/7
Historian Lon Kurashige joins US Senator Mazie Hirono and other guests to discuss rising racism against Asian Americans and Asians in America.
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9/13/2020
Prop 16 and the "Chinese Virus" Bring Two Views of Asian American History into Conflict
by Hao Zou
Many Chinese Americans oppose California's Proposition 16, which would reinstate race-based affirmative action in state university admissions. This support stems from a meritocratic interpretation of Chinese American experiences that is challenged by the xenophobic "Chinese Virus" discourse around COVID-19.
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SOURCE: New York Times
8/13/2020
In Women’s Suffrage, a Spotlight for Unsung Pioneers
The New York Times will run a special section highlighting the contributions of lesser-known champions of suffrage and the political rights of women.
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SOURCE: TIME
6/26/2020
The Asian American Response to Black Lives Matter Is Part of a Long, Complicated History
“Asian Americans owe so much of their presence in this country to the Black struggle for freedom — from birthright citizenship to the ability to tell our stories in education and the culture to the civil rights we enjoy,” says author Jeff Chang.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
5/26/2020
How a New Show Tears Down the Myths of Asian American History
Executive producer Renee Tajima-Peña says the program is about “how we got where we are and where are we going next.”
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SOURCE: TIME
5/22/2020
In 1968, These Activists Coined the Term 'Asian American'—And Helped Shape Decades of Advocacy
Activists' decision to form a broad organization uniting many Asian ethnicities helped create a stronger political movement.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
5/14/2020
A New History of Being Asian-American
New Yorker critic Hua Hsu questions whether the PBS documentary series will simplify the experiences of Asian Americans through a lens of celebration that obscures ongoing conflict and prejudice.
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