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Academic Version: Applying my personal experiences and academic research as a professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies to provide a more complete understanding of political, economic, and cultural issues and current events related to American race relations, and Asia/Asian America in particular.
Plain English: Trying to put my Ph.D. to good use.
There are many things of which Japan and the Japanese citizens can be proud — technological innovation, strong economic power, and cultural trendsetter. On the other hand and just like any other country, there are other things for which Japan deserves to be criticized — nationalistic denials over its World War II atrocities, its insistence on continuing to kill whales, Read More →
Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past year or so, you may have heard that tomorrow is Super Tuesday and my home state of Massachusetts is among those states holding primaries. In case you’re interested, I have made up my mind who I will be voting for, and who I feel is the best choice to be Read More →
Jet Li is undoubtedly one of the world’s most popular action movie stars and for many Asians and Asian Americans, a spiritual successor to the legendary Bruce Lee. However, as Reuters News reports, Jet Li is forging his own legacy by devoting much of his time to charity work, rather than just cranking out more movies:
One of my blogger colleagues, Jenn Fang at Reappropriate, recently conducted a lengthy interview with Yul Kwon, Korean American winner of the Survivor: Race Wars reality show a couple of years ago, while they both participated in a voter registration drive in Nevada last week.
Jenn’s interview and Yul’s comments cover a wide range of issues, from media portrayals on Read More →
Within the context of Asian-Pacific affairs, we usually don’t hear a lot about Mongolia. Since the early 1990s, when 70 years of Soviet rule over the country ended, Mongolia is slowly starting to reassert its own unique history and culture.
As one example, National Geographic has put together an interesting short video clip that describes the resurgence of Buddhism Read More →
As the number of Asian American (as opposed to Asian) players in big-time professional sports such as football, baseball, and basketball continues to lag, it turns out that Asian Americans are finding much more success in other sports. For example, in women’s professional golf, 10 out of the top 27 money-earners in 2007 on the LPGA Tour were Asian/Asian American Read More →
I’ve received announcements to help publicize the following online surveys about Asian Americans. Please take a few minutes to help out these researchers and contribute your input (and to forward these links to your friends, relatives, and colleagues).
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Survey #1
Greetings! My name is Amy Tsai, and I am a psychology graduate student at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I am Read More →
One of my primary areas of research is entrepreneurship and self-employment, primarily among Asian Americans (but as the world and the U.S. in particular become more globalized, increasingly there is much overlap between Asian Americans and Asians and their transnational ventures).
As a reflection of that, BusinessWeek magazine has just named its Top 25 Young Asian Entrepreneurs (age 30 and younger) and Read More →
As our nation celebrates the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. today, it’s appropriate that we reflect on the state of his quest toward racial harmony and equality in contemporary American society.
Specifically, in this day and age, racial/ethnic relations seem to influence many of the most controversial and hotly-debated issues in modern American society. This includes immigration (especially illegal Read More →
Following up on my earlier post about Eric Byler and his colleague’s newest multimedia project about American immigration, Annabel Park, one of the project’s principle creators, emailed me to update me on their latest series of events this week, culminating with the Nevada primary on Saturday:
Eric Byler and I are in Nevada campaigning for Obama and we recruited a bunch of Read More →
A colleague send me this YouTube video link, entitled “A Land Called Paradise.” It’s a short video montage based on the following: In December 2007, over 2,000 American Muslims were asked what they would wish to say to the rest of the world:
I found it very touching and another example of the fact that, in contrast to the stereotypes that Read More →
As the Presidential primaries get into full swing, there are a couple of items concerning the Democratic party that caught my attention. The first concerns Nevada’s Democratic primary, taking place on January 19. I received a couple of emails from a reader, Alvina, asking me to help publicize a Democratic political rally that took place yesterday, Mon. Jan. 14. Read More →
