Asian Americans

“We await our moment, in pursuit of the picture that Corky envisaged, a portrait of a community that is too large and too brilliant.”

Galvanized by an act of racial violence, the band A Grain of Sand brought a new version of Asian American activism and identity to the folk music scene.

How white-dominated racial power produces inter-ethnic group conflict.

The woman with the pen name Onoto Watanna had a stunningly productive literary career as a cookbook writer, novelist, and screenwriter.

Lee's life and work suggested that Asian American identity did not possess—and did not need—any underlying reality beyond solidarity.

How an Asian American literary pioneer fell into obscurity.

Chin’s killing, 40 years ago, has inspired documentaries, young-adult books, and countless works of scholarship. What do we want from his story, and the people who tell it?

Asian Americans have been both the victims and perpetrators of racial discrimination.

The idea of Asian Americans as a “model minority” has a long and complicated history.

In “The Loneliest Americans,” Jay Caspian Kang asks whether Asian American identity can be rescued from people like him.

"By not showing up in American history, by not hearing about Asian Americans in schools, that contributes to that sense of foreignness."

Remembering Asian-American activists Corky Lee and Yuri Kochiyama.

Educators say that anti-Asian racism is directly linked to how the AAPI community is often depicted in U.S. history lessons .

While American conservatism remains largely White, it has slowly but surely become less so.

Generations of Asian Americans have struggled to prove an Americanness that should not need to be proven.

Proudly embracing their role as outsiders, a group of writer-activists set out to create a cultural identity—and a literature—of their own.

The ruling class used false claims about white women’s sexual virtue to regulate sexuality. But the “white slavery” panic was also about race, class and labor.

This election year, two women of South Asian descent—Kamala Harris and Usha Vance—take center stage. What can their identities tell us about their approach?

Asian American artists who performed for primarily white audiences in the 1930s and ’40s both challenged and solidified racial boundaries in the United States.

The famed opera has been criticized for its racist portrayals of Asian-Americans.

The Max series makes a radical argument for what constitutes American history.

The Supreme Court considers new arguments challenging admissions practices that colleges use to select a diverse student body.

Twenty years ago, Sandra Day O'Connor's deleted draft opinion rejected favoring white applicants over Asian Americans. Why did Clarence Thomas adopt it?

The 1982 attack against Vincent Chin redefined hate crimes and energized a push for today’s stronger legal protections.

What the differences between Hiram Fong and Nikki Haley tell us about changes to the GOP.

The idea of proportionality has roots in midcentury Japanese American advocacy.

My Chinese-immigrant parents dreamed big for me, their American-born daughter whom they raised in the suburbs east of San Francisco.

40 years after Vincent Chin’s murder, the struggle against anti-Asian hate continues.

Pachappa Camp, the first Korean-organized immigrant settlement in the United States, was established through the efforts of Ahn Chang Ho.

The line from America’s earliest empire in the Philippines to Japan, Korea, Vietnam—and anti-Asian violence at home—is straight, clear, and written in blood.