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Pain, Passion and the Transnational Flow of Chinese Bodies
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Racism and the Experience of Asian American Students
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Posted by Andrew on Wednesday, May 03 @ 18:31:27 EDT (9260 reads) |
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©2005 The National Education
Association
Excerpted from A Report on the Status of Asian Americans and Pacific
Islanders in Education
I take public transportation to and from school every day. As I walk to
the bus stop, I hear kids in the school bus call me “chink” and many other
things that are negative about Asians. When this happens I feel a sense of
non-belonging. [1]
There were always those kids that called you names or tried to put you
into that (pause) if you’re not white you’re not American. [2]
AAPI students are the targets of both overt and subtle forms of racism. These
experiences with racism—from the overt acts of anti-AAPI violence to more subtle
instances of exclusion—are often informed by stereotypes. Numerous studies
highlight the fact that AAPI students are stereotyped by their non-AAPI peers
and by school staff. Many stereotypes of AAPI students exist: the smart and
hard-working Asian, the lazy and incapable Pacific Islander, the illiterate
refugee draining the community’s resources, the gangster, the quiet and
mysterious Other, and so forth. In this section, particular attention will be
paid to the negative impact on AAPI students of two of the most pervasive and
persistent stereotypes of AAPIs, namely, the model minority stereotype and the
perpetual foreigner stereotype. |
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Inside the Asian Pressure Cooker
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Asian Adoptees, American Parents, Struggle to Mesh Cultures
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Posted by Andrew on Wednesday, April 06 @ 10:00:00 EDT (6647 reads) |
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By Noreen O'Donnell
©2005 The Westchester Journal News
March 20, 2005
Growing up on Long Island, where almost everyone around her was white,
Lee-Ann Hanham would forget she had been adopted from South Korea. Really
forget, she said, until she would pass a mirror.
"And you would stop and you would be surprised that, 'Oh my God, I'm not
5 foot 10, blond-haired and blue- eyed,' " Hanham recalls.
"It was difficult trying to seek out anything Asian outside the Chinese
restaurants," she said. "I remember we did have Asian dolls, but there
was no talking about it. It just kind of was." |
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Posted by Andrew on Tuesday, February 08 @ 10:00:00 EST (5149 reads) |
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Multiracial patients must 'win the lottery' to find bone marrow match
By Erin Texeira
©2005 The Associated Press
February 2, 2005
Luke Do was a lively 18-month-old awaiting the birth of his first sibling
when he was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia.
The hopes of his parents, both doctors in San Jose, immediately turned to a
bone marrow transplant, but they soon learned some distressing news -- Luke's
ethnic heritage made him a tough match.
Sarah Gaskins, Luke's mother, has Japanese and European ancestors and his
father, Lam Do, is Vietnamese-American. Because bone marrow matches usually are
made with a relative or someone with the same racial or ethnic background as the
patient, multiracial people rarely have success. |
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Asian Americans Respond to Tsunami Disaster
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Western Decadence Enters the Asian Food Chain
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Posted by Andrew on Wednesday, August 25 @ 10:00:00 EDT (6213 reads) |
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DalaiWu writes "Clustering in Cities, Asians Are Becoming Obese
By Seth Mydans
©2003 New York Times
March 12, 2003
MANILA — A wave of obesity is sweeping through Asia as its population shifts into vast new cities where the food is faster and fattier and the lifestyle more sedentary.
As it did in the West a generation ago, obesity is bringing with it a range of ailments led by cardiovascular disease. Once uncommon in Asia, diseases of the heart and cardiovascular system are now the continent's leading killers.
Most visibly and most dangerously for the future, obesity is spreading among children, bringing a severe form of diabetes and putting them at risk for years to come. " |
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Family Deported to Philippines after Almost 2 Decades in U.S.
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Posted by Andrew on Thursday, July 29 @ 10:00:00 EDT (6679 reads) |
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sinsoldier writes "Cicero A. Estrella
©2004 San Francisco Chronicle
July 1, 2004
Delfin and Lily Cuevas choked up during the speeches at their eldest child's graduation ceremony earlier this month at Cal State Hayward. A camera hung around Delfin's neck, at the ready for the special moments that would be savored in later years.
The Fremont couple, dressed in light clothing and sunglasses to block the morning sun, blended in among thousands of well-wishers.
Over two decades, Delfin and Lily had become experts at not calling attention to themselves. They raised three children -- Donna, 24, Dale, 23, and Dominique, 21 -- drove minivans and lived a modest existence in a middle-class East Bay neighborhood. They achieved the American dream, only without the government's blessings.
Members of the Cuevas family lived illegally in the United States for 19 years. Late Wednesday night, their American dream ended when they boarded a 747 for the Philippines, deported by the Department of Homeland Security. The three adult children will live in a country they barely remember. " |
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Asian Youth Face a Harsh Reality
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All-American, With One Foot in China
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Posted by Andrew on Tuesday, March 30 @ 10:00:00 EST (7151 reads) |
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moser writes "
By Kari Huus
©2004 MSNBC Interactive
March 25, 2004
Like a lot of 8-year-olds, when Meg Garrison is mad at her parents, she occasionally threatens to run away. She even has a destination, says her father, Bill, a realtor in Seattle: “She says: ‘I’m running away — to China!' ” In some ways, it is a typical childhood antic, but it is also a sign that she has started reckoning with her beginnings as an orphan in China.
Meg is one of tens of thousands of children, most of them girls, adopted from China by U.S. families in the last decade. They now make up the largest number of children adopted from a given country at any one time. In 2004, the number is set to rise even higher as China lifts a quota on foreign adoptions in an effort to relieve a backlog of applications.
Inevitably, as these children grow up, they are beginning to look around and raise questions about why they were abandoned and how they came to be adopted, and wonder about their skin color and the shape of their noses. It can be a painful process of discovery, as foreign-born adoptees of past generations have found. " |
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Chinese and American Cultures Clash in Custody Battle for Girl
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A Changing World Makes the Homeland Seem Like Home
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Abused Asian Women Assisted in Fresh Starts
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Asian Americans Critical of 'Rickshaw Rally' Theme
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Asian-American Youths' Struggles Belie Stereotype
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Transracial Adoptees Take On The Adoption Industry
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Posted by Andrew on Thursday, October 23 @ 10:00:00 EDT (4423 reads) |
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Anonymous writes "Stephanie Cho and Kim So Yung are fighting to expose the unequal power between the white adoption industry and children of color adoptees. Here, they reflect on how their childhood experiences made them think about racism and adoption, and how they became political activists.
By Stephanie Cho and Kim So Yung
Eurasian Nation
June 2003
Stephanie Cho and Kim So Yung are co-founders of Transracial Abductees, an organization that works to educate transracial adoptees and communities of color and expose the unequal power between the white adoption industry and children of color adoptees. They choose the word "abduction" to describe how the adoption industry forcibly removes children of color from their families and communities and assimilates them into their new white families and society.
In this article, they reflect on their experiences growing up in the Northwest United States, when they started thinking about racism and adoption, and how they became political about it.
Stephanie: Sometimes my memories are pictures that are revisited. I can't remember if it is a picture I saw when I was younger or if it is really my own memory but I think I first noticed racism when I met my white family. There have been arguments made that racism happens when contact between white and colored meet. This might have been true for me." |
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GI Babies in the Philippines Seek U.S. Citizenship
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'Transracial Adoption Should Be a Last Resort'
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Posted by Andrew on Thursday, September 04 @ 10:00:00 EDT (2339 reads) |
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The Portland Oregonian
August 27, 2003
Liz Rogers lives in Portland, where she is a caseworker for Asian and Pacific Islander families at the Asian Family Center. Born in Korea, Rogers, 25, was adopted at 15 months by a Massachusetts couple from a Korean foster family.
Rogers' parents, who had three biological children and a son they also adopted from Korea, encouraged her to explore her roots; in college, she majored in sociology and East Asian languages. Here, she reflects on her upbringing:
"Growing up, I didn't have much opportunity to make connections with other adoptees, let alone other Koreans. But my parents knew they didn't have the answers for everything, so they encouraged me to go to whatever lengths I needed to find them.
"It wasn't until I went away to college that I realized I was a person of color and had friends of color. Adoption had always been an open issue in my family. But race and adoption only began to crisscross for me after I left for college. I went to China my junior year and, for the first time, I was surrounded by people who looked like me. |
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Hmong Pool Their Resourcefulness
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Posted by Andrew on Monday, August 04 @ 10:00:00 EDT (1794 reads) |
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By Lourdes Medrano Leslie
©2003 Minneapolis-St.Paul Star-Tribune
July 23, 2003
The Xiong family of Brooklyn Park is a perfect example of what economic
progress looks like in the Hmong community.
The oldest son, 34-year-old Shoua, and his wife, Soua, work late into the
night making medical devices at a Chaska factory. His mother, Yer Yang, looks
after the couple's five children until her two other sons, Toua, 24, and Kao,
20, come home from work. The matriarch's youngest daughter-in-law, Ying Yang,
21, helps with the cooking and cleaning.
All those who work help pay the bills. Although their wages are modest,
pooling their income has allowed them to start moving into the middle class.
Together, they can afford to pay for a four-bedroom house that they bought four
years ago in a neighborhood filled with manicured lawns and shade trees. |
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Posted by Andrew on Wednesday, July 30 @ 10:00:00 EDT (7470 reads) |
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South Koreans make them, Americans buy them
By Matthew Rothschild
The Progressive
January 1988
Seoul, South Korea. Five pregnant women sleep on blankets on the tile floor
of a small room. They keep their personal belongings in three wooden closets on
one wall above their feet. This is home, at least until the babies come. The
dormitory is called Ae Ran Won, and it is one of a dozen homes for unmarried
women in South Korea. Ae Ran Won can hold fifty pregnant women in its ten rooms,
but when I was there in November, it had only thirty-five. These women supply
the raw material for a peculiar South Korean business: the export of babies to
the United States. U.S. families are adopting 6,000 Korean children a year, most
of them infants, at a price of about $5,000 a head. |
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Vietnamese American Youths Embrace Culture, Look to Future
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Child Abuse Among Asian Americans
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Posted by Andrew on Monday, July 21 @ 10:00:00 EDT (15974 reads) |
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Emily writes "By Emily Guey
Special to ModelMinority.com
July 2003
Introduction
Child maltreatment among Asian Americans today sadly remains unexposed. The purpose of this paper is to uncover the nature of child abuse and neglect, also called CAN, in Asian Americans and reasons for its lack of visibility. Only from taking this first step of uncovering child abuse can an effective effort to fight it develop, because only there can all-out efforts be made to try and protect victims.
It is through my vulnerability as an Asian American who has personally experienced child abuse that I unravel its complex cultural roots. My impetus, as implicitly stated in the title, reflects my determination to create wholeness from a broken past by sharing, rather than remaining torn, embittered and silent. I am neither condemning nor rejecting the values of my heritage, but rather, making others aware that child maltreatment can arise from cultural roots. I also hope to shed light on the hidden nature of abuse that keeps this problem locked behind the closed doors of family homes." |
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Many NYC Asian American Children Face Poverty
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Am I Chinese? Stop Bugging Me
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Posted by Andrew on Monday, June 16 @ 10:00:00 EDT (2366 reads) |
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B.D. Wong's Real-Life Journey to Becoming a Gay Father
By David Wiegand
San Francisco Chronicle
June 16, 2003
The young Asian American hostess in the smart blue uniform at the Compass
Rose is happy to provide an out-of-the-way table for a reporter to tape an
interview with B.D. Wong, who is staying upstairs at the Westin St. Francis.
"This one would be fairly quiet, I think," she says with a professional
smile. Then, unable to help herself, she adds: "Wow, B.D. Wong is here. Oh, I
love him -- an Asian actor."
A few minutes later, the actor who has often campaigned for greater
visibility for Asians in film, television and stage, grins broadly when he's
told about Janice Yee Bolosan's comment. He knows how she feels. Growing up in
the Sunset District as Bradley Darryl Wong, he remembers being confused and
then angry watching all those TV shows with no Asian faces. And although he's
beaten the odds in his own career since his Tony-winning gender-bending turn
in the title role of "M. Butterfly," it still gets him upset that things
haven't improved that much for other Asian American actors. |
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Asian-Americans' Incomes Fall at Ends of Spectrum
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Posted by Andrew on Thursday, May 29 @ 05:00:00 EDT (3231 reads) |
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A Century of Social Memory in a Chinese American Family
By Yong Chen
The Oral History Review
Winter/Spring 2000
This article is not the history of a Chinese American family, but an analysis
of how Ah Quin, a Chinese American immigrant pioneer, is remembered by his
descendants.(1) It explores what is remembered and what is forgotten, and how
memory is shaped.
The life experience of Ah Quin has become an increasingly important part of
our social memory of the early Chinese American experience.(2) After coming to
the U.S. in 1863 at the age of fifteen from the Pearl River Delta region in
Guangdong Province (the native region of most early Chinese immigrants), he
worked as a laborer in a number of places in California and Alaska. He moved to
San Diego in 1880 as a railroad labor contractor, a job he obtained because of
his bilingual skills and contact with white Americans.(3) He remained there for
the rest of his life, becoming a small businessman and a community leader (he
was known as "mayor of Chinatown") and raising a large family (he and
his wife had twelve children). We have considerable knowledge of Ah Quin's life
for two important reasons. First, he left numerous personal documents,
especially a lengthy diary that he kept intermittently between 1877 and 1910.
Although written primarily in English, in an apparent effort to improve his
fluency in that language, rather than in his native Chinese, it candidly
recorded his daily activities and private thoughts. Secondly, his descendants of
different generations have made efforts to maintain memories of Ah Quin.(4) |
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