Asian-Nation : Asian American News, Issues, & Current Events Blog

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.

January 28, 2007

Written by C.N.

Survey on Asian American Women

A colleague of mine asked for my help in recruiting Asian American women to take an Internet survey she’s created to help analyze work and family issues. It’s open to all women who self-identify as Asian American. It’s not exactly a short survey — it’ll take about 30 minutes to complete — but the data will be very valuable Read More →

January 25, 2007

Written by C.N.

Another Anti-Arab Student Attack

You might remember that back in November 2006, an Iranian American student at UCLA was tazered by campus police for refusing to show his student ID. On the heels of that, this past week three Palestinian college students were called racial slurs, terrorists, and physically attacked by 15 football players from Guilford College, a small Quaker college in Greensboro NC:

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January 24, 2007

Written by C.N.

Princeton Student Newspaper Controversy

You might remember that recently an Asian American student applicant who was rejected at Princeton sued the university claiming racial discrimination. The people at Princeton’s student newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, decided to write about his case. Unfortunately, they tried to do so using a parody that included mocking Asian language accents and basically playing off offensive stereotypes against Read More →

January 23, 2007

Written by C.N.

China’s Growing Gender Imbalance

For decades now, China’s government has enforced a strict “one child” policy that restricted most Chinese families to just one child, in order to curb China’s rising population. Combined with the fact that traditionally, males enjoyed many more legal rights than females, many Chinese couples end up aborting female fetuses in hopes of waiting for a boy. Unfortunately, this Read More →

January 21, 2007

Written by C.N.

First Japanese Professional Hockey Player

First, there was baseball, then football, then basketball. Now the Japanese have hit all four major professional sports — as CNN/Sports Illustrated reports, Yutaka Fukufuji just became the first Japanese hockey player to play in the National Hockey League:

Fukufuji entered to start the third in relief of Barry Brust. He faced five shots, but allowed Wideman’s goal 7:32 into Read More →

January 20, 2007

Written by C.N.

Anti-Immigration in Yellowface

Asian Americans and other non-Hispanic minorities tend to be inconspicuous in the immigration debate, but that may not be sitting well with some whites who vociferously campaign for stringent immigration control. Some of these individuals who take a hard stance on immigration are not waiting for non-Hispanic minorities to weigh-in; they are taking the preemptive step of engineering ethnic anti-immigration Read More →

January 18, 2007

Written by C.N.

Asian Immigrants Dominate Entrepreneurship

As I have written about before, Asian Americans tend to be overrepresented in entrepreneurship/small business ownership. New data shows the extent to which this is still the case today — one-quarter of all technology start ups in the last decade were started by immigrants, and that Indians were the most likely to do so:

A new study had found that more Read More →

January 16, 2007

Written by C.N.

Michelle Wie Being Overshadowed by Tadd Fujikawa

For the past couple of years, much of the golf world’s attention has been focused on Michelle Wie and her attempts to compete in PGA men’s golf tournaments. Despite her immense talent and the equally immense hype surrounding it, she has yet to make the cut in any of the men’s tournaments. This weekend however, she is being overshadowed Read More →

January 14, 2007

Written by C.N.

Foreign Adoptions Declining

As many people know, foreign adoption has been a hot topic among Asian Americans for several decades now, especially as foreign adoptions have almost tripled in the past 15 years or so. However, as the Associated Press/Orange County Register report, there was a substantial decline in foreign adoptions in 2006, which could have significant consequences going forward:

Overall, according to new Read More →

January 11, 2007

Written by C.N.

Hmong Hunter Shot in Wisconsin

You might remember that in late 2004, Hmong American Chai Vang shot six White Americans to death in Wisconsin, claiming that they shouted racial epithets at him and fired shots in his direction. He was subsequently convicted of six counts of murder. Now comes word that another Hmong American was found dead from an apparent gunshot wound, also in Read More →

January 9, 2007

Written by C.N.

First Baby of New Year Controversy

Each year, Toys R Us gives the first baby of the new year a scholarship of $25,000. This year, the first baby born in the new year was a Chinese American. After initially being declared the first baby of the new year, officials learned that her mother was an undocumented immigrant and her title and scholarship was stripped and Read More →

January 7, 2007

Written by C.N.

China Opening Confucius Institutes in US

In recent years, China has opened up over a hundred “Confucius Institutes” in 50 countries around the U.S., including several in the U.S. (the latest one is at the Univ. of MA at Boston). The goal of such institutes is to promote the learning of Chinese language and culture and academic exchange with host universities. But as the Christian Read More →

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