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.

September 21, 2005

Written by C.N.

North Korea to Give Up Nuclear Program

As many news organizations such as CNN are reporting, North Korea has just announced that it has agreed to give up its entire nuclear program, after initially demanding that it retain the right to develop its civilian sector use of nuclear energy:

“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) committed to abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and returning Read More →

September 19, 2005

Written by C.N.

New Asian American Communities

From a demographic point of view, it is only a matter of time before any given Asian American enclave becomes too crowded. After that happens, Asian Americans will then inevitably disperse and move into new areas, creating new Asian American communities. This has happened in southern California, the New York City metro area, and now, as the Philadelphia Inquirer Read More →

September 15, 2005

Written by C.N.

Cultural Change in China

CBS News has an article that describes the growing cultural divide in China — on the one hand, young, urban, and upwardly mobile citizens who care more about material success and comfort than political democracy, and on the other, poor, rural, and older workers who are increasingly fed up with the rampant corruption and bureaucracy of the communist party:

There was Read More →

September 14, 2005

Written by C.N.

“Anti-Asian” Laws Passed by APA Politicians

Two stories in the news recently caught my eye, both dealing with proposed legislation that many Asian American-owned small businesses say would hurt their livelihoods. The interesting irony in both of these cases is that the proposed legislation was drafted and advocated by Asian American politicians.

In the first example, reported by AsianWeek Magazine, describes proposed legislation in California that would Read More →

September 13, 2005

Written by C.N.

Outsourcing to India Slowing Down?

Those of you who have been following the issue of labor outsourcing know that the country at the epicenter of the global economic phenemenon is India, which boasts cheap labor and a well-educated labor force. However, CNN/Money Magazine has an article that suggests India’s outsourcing boom may be ending soon due to rising wages and a developing labor shortage:

A new Read More →

September 11, 2005

Written by C.N.

Jason Scott Lee

I was browsing through AngryAsianMan.com and saw that he had this link to a story about what Jason Scott Lee has been doing recently. You might remember Jason as playing Bruce Lee in the movie “Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story,” one of the few major Hollywood productions in the last 15 years or so that had an Asian American man Read More →

September 8, 2005

Written by C.N.

Education Gone Wrong

You’ve probably heard of the reality TV show “What Not to Wear.” Well, maybe someone should profile Lafayette High School in Brooklyn as “What Not to Do” in terms of supporting the equal education of Asian Americans. As Newsday reports, the Bush administration has just brought federal civil rights charges against Lafayette High, alleging that it failed to address Read More →

September 7, 2005

Written by C.N.

Hmong Hunter Trial to Start

As CBS News reports, the trial of Chai Soua Vang, the Hmong American accused of killing six Whites after a hunting confrontation in Wisconsin, is set to begin this week. In an earlier post, I commented that Vang’s defense is that he was subjected to numerous racial taunts and epitaths during the confrontation and that he only shot back in Read More →

September 6, 2005

Written by C.N.

Technology and Asian Fetish

Did you hear about the young Vietnamese American woman who was flashed by a White guy who was masturbating while riding the NYC subway with her? While he was whipping out his tool, she was whipping out her own tool — her camera phone, and snapped some pictures of him to show the police.

She later posted it to Read More →

September 5, 2005

Written by C.N.

Apparent Hazing Death at Asian American Fraternity

As reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune, police are investigating a death of a young Asian American student, Kenny Luong, who was participating in a fraternity-related football game involving California Polytechnic University Pomona and U.C. Irvine students. Witnesses describe that the activity was “a hazing disguised as a football game.” Luong apparently died from massive head injuries.

Simple hazing is Read More →

September 2, 2005

Written by C.N.

Chaos and Injustice in New Orleans

You’ve probably seen the images of a devastated New Orleans and its desperate residents. Perhaps you’ve also heard that for whatever reasons, emergency help and relief supplies have been very slow in getting to those in need. Like a growing number of sociologists and other observers, I’d like to wonder aloud about the race/class dynamics of this tragedy and Read More →

August 31, 2005

Written by C.N.

New Little League Champs from Hawaii

Congratulations to the new Little League World Champions: Team USA from Ewa Beach, Hawaii, who won the championship on a dramatic walk-off two-run home run by Michael Memea.

You might recall that Hawaii has the largest proportion of Asian Americans of any U.S. state — around two-thirds of the state’s population has Asian or Pacific Islander ancestry. I’m not sure Read More →

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