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Judge Denny Chin Nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals
The White House announced today that Judge Denny Chin, the accomplished judge who presided over the infamous U.S. vs. Madoff case earlier this year, has been nominated by President Obama to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Here...
80/20 and Asian American Salaries in the Sciences
Followers of this blog will remember that I’m not the world’s biggest groupie of 80/20, a political action committee (or P.A.C. as the lingo goes) that I find self-promoting and an embarrassment to the grassroots Asian American political...
Asians Behaving Badly: Tufts University
(Hat-Tip: Asian Pacific Americans for Progress) In a way, on-campus student body elections are a telling glimpse into how important political strategists and marketing people are for politics; every fall semester, we get to see just what happens whe...
Fan Secret Identities and APIA Vote
Just a quick note: become a fan of Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology and APIA Vote on Facebook!...
Bao Phi on Race, Violence, and Police Brutality
Hat-tip: Racialicious Bao Phi writes about the little-known stories of victims of police brutality. Here’s an excerpt: We all have our fears. Some of these fears are consciously and subconsciously taught to us by society, some of them may be ...
Heroes, Season 4 Episode 1
Yes, I’m already a week behind on blogging about the latest season of Heroes. Blah. Heroes is noteworthy for being one of the few shows on primetime to feature a multi-racial cast of characters. With the generally abysmal representation of A...
Congratulations, John Liu!
John Liu isn’t Asian America’s singular political leader (do we even have one?), but he’s pretty dang close. Those of us who have been around the politically active wing of the APA community have seen how John Liu, a New York City ...
First Ever AsAm ComiCon
Man, I wish I could go to this. The First-Ever Asian American ComiCon Comes to New York on July 11, 2009! Event gathers top mainstream and alternative comics creators, including FRED CHAO, BERNARD CHANG, SEAN CHEN, CLIFF CHIANG, DEREK KIRK KIM, CHRI...
Ron Takaki, RIP?
Got this email just now: Angry Asian Man and various Facebook friends are reporting that Dr. Ronald Takaki (author of Strangers from a Different Shore, UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies professor) has passed away. There’s no official notice yet fr...
Margaret Cho on a new Lifetime show
CNN interviews Margaret Cho about her latest project, Drop Dead Diva. An excerpt: CNN: You’ve talked before about your less-than-positive experiences working on a sitcom [”All-American Girl”]. Any apprehension about doing this seri...
Where Can I Get My Giant Repellent Umbrella For Stupid?
(Hat-tip: Angry Asian Man) Just when I thought that parody commercials couldn’t get more awesome, this parody commercial hit whole new levels of awesomeness. Earlier this year, a group calling itself Nation For Marriage put together this wonder...
Secret Identities: Parry Shen Unmasked
The Backstory: This interview is the first in a series of interviews with the editors of Secret Identities, an anthology of comic short stories about Asian American superheroes from Asian American writers and artists. Secret Identities hit books...
Our Work Isn’t Done
Dear Asian American Democrats of Texas Members, Supporters, and Friends, In the last few weeks many of you have received emails from us (AADT) and the Texas Democratic Party about Rep. Betty Brown’s unfortunate comments about Asian American vot...
The Secret’s Out: Secret Identities Is Here And It’s Awesome!
The first few pages of Secret Identities chronicle an exchange between Jeff Yang (writer of Asian Pop! at the San Francisco Chronicle) and Keith Chow (freelance writer) that originally inspired the Asian American superhero anthology released today. Y...
More on Betty Brown
From the Texas Democrat listserve: As you may have heard - and as you will see in the news clips below - Republican State Rep. Betty Brown had quite the week. With her comments that Asian-American Texans wouldn’t have problems with a propose...
You’re Too Weird; You Need to Change
I just got wind of this through Asian Pacific Americans for Progress and I was so flabbergasted, I actually turned off my Pandora (playing a rousing Rick Astley song) to listen to one of the most ignorant comments ever uttered (in recent weeks) from ...
Kal Penn Joins Obama Administration
Kal Penn is my new hero. CNN’s Political Ticker writes that Penn has chosen to quit his job as a main cast member on House to join the Obama administration. And not only is Penn going to be working in politics, he will be dealing directly with ...
That Sinking Feeling
When I turned on CNN this morning, the headlines blared about a nameless gunman who had gone on a rampage at an immigrants’ services centre in Binghmaton, New York before turning his gun on himself. Having gone to school in upstate New York, a ...
Out of Touch with the Offline
Lisa, over at A Woman’s Ecdysis, wrote a post last week about disconnecting from the online feminist blogosphere. I wanted to try and disengage from the online world of feminism and refocus that energy into the human interactive relationships I...
I Certainly Don’t Choose “Join”
(Hat-tip: Keith) I received an email over the weekend about an Asian American art student who has launched an online art project called “Join or Die”. The artist, Justine Lai, paints herself in various sexual positions with former preside...
It’s Coming! ‘Secret Identities’
I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I am about this: MEDIA ALERT “SECRET IDENTITIES: THE ASIAN AMERICAN SUPERHERO ANTHOLOGY,” BURSTS OUT OF A PHONE BOOTH AND INTO A BOOKSTORE NEAR YOU – JUST IN TIME FOR ASIAN ...
Obama Appoints Nobel Prize Winning Asian American Physicist as Energy Secretary
Sources inside the Obama transition team today told news outlets that Obama was nominating Dr. Steven Chu, winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics, as energy secretary. Chu is the second Asian American to be nominated by Obama this week, after ...
Obama Names Shinseki to Secretary of Veteran Affairs
I think Barack Obama is going to have one of the most diverse administrations of any president in history. Obama announced earlier this week that he was nominating acclaimed Army official, and Vietnam War veteran, retired Gen. Eric Shinseki as Secre...
Korean Americans on Obama
CNN reports on Kevin Kim, a talk radio host whose audience are primarily South Korean. Great to see Asian Americans getting involved — although it is a little frustrating to see yet another report on Asian Americans that only goes as far as the...
The Invisible Asian American Vote
Earlier this month, Slate posted a great article by writer Christopher Beam on the relative obscurity of the Asian American vote. Beam insightfully notes that though Asian Americans represent 5% of the national population, our community still only en...
Obama’s Blueprint for APIAs
Last week, Barack Obama and Joe Biden released their 29 page Blueprint (Get it? Democrats are blue!) for the Asian American community. It’s really exciting to see a national presidential campaign outreach to the Asian American community, w...
Gook: John McCain’s Racism
I was in Barnes and Noble last night when I stumbled upon a book called Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters. The book is written by Irwin Tang, who holds an M.A. in Asian Studies and has authored books about his experiences as an A...
Call + Response
Saw this on CNN today: Embedded video from CNN Video It’s a report on a new documentary called Call + Response, created by an organization (of the same name) describing itself as a modern-day abolitionist movement. Produced and directed by a gu...
Institutionalized Racial Hierarchy
A CNN video report talks about a case where an Asian Indian man killed his African American daughter-in-law, mother to his granddaughter — allegedly because the man believed his son, an Asian Indian American man, should marry only within his ra...
Holy Sushi!
(Hat-tip: Lost in Ube) We’re right in the thick of summer and it’s about 110 degrees Farenheit outside here in Tucson. Which of course means that the primetime TV networks are rolling out their lame post-season filler shows to try and...
