New York is now roughly 13% Asian according to a recent New York Times article, but that’s not reflected in city services or positions of power: social service organizations that focus on (Asian Americans) receive only 1.4 percent of the Council’s discretionary allocations, and less than a quarter of one percent of the money for [...]
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The Pan-Asian Invasion
Posted in articles, identity, politics, race on June 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Blood Quantum and the Politics of Looking
Posted in identity, mixed-race, musings on June 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In the realm of mixed race, what you look like matters a lot. No matter who you are on the inside, culturally or linguistically or politically, people treat you the way you look. This isn’t news, but it still matters. Generally I’m all for preserving culture and self identifying, and I know this sounds bad, but [...]
In the defense of bottled blondes
Posted in identity, media, tagged Grace Park, Maggie Q on September 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Among “enlightened, progressive Asian Americans”, there’s a common pastime, which involves accusing other Asian women of self hate because they wear color contacts or lighten their hair to various shades of orange or yellow (I’m aware that I made some gross generalizations. Just go with it.). The reasoning is that these blond “self hating Asians [...]
