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Carving Out Their Own Niche

African-American cultural expression is one of the many influences fueling Asian-American artistry.

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Lawyer: Duke Cheating Case Hit Asian Students Hardest

DURHAM, N.C. Asian students involved in a cheating scandal at the Duke University business school were punished more severely than others, their attorney says.

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Asian Panel Debunks “Model Minority” Myth

When early news reports about the Virginia Tech shootings indicated the alleged perpetrator was Asian, Yixin Li, a University of Maryland freshman, said he prayed the shooter, Seung Hui Cho, would be Korean or Vietnamese and not a fellow Chinese. That distinction didn’t matter to some observers because “after the incident people started calling me Cho,” Li recalled Wednesday at a forum, “The End of the Model Minority Myth: Reflections on the Virginia Tech Tragedy from Asian American Perspectives.”

Asian Americans Urge Not to Stereotype Community

Asian-American community members are fearful of a backlash given the recent events at Virginia Tech and are urging Americans not to reduce the tragedy into stereotypical assumptions about Asian Americans or Korean Americans in particular.

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UCLA Expert Challenges The Asian-American “Model Minority” Assumption

Asian-American youth are often portrayed as the “model minority” who have perfect SAT scores and attend Ivy League schools, but there is a segment of the Asian American population who are low-income students struggling to become the first in their family to earn a college degree.

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Overshadowed

Ask the average person what comes to mind at the mention of the Black Panther Party…

Message To College Papers: Leave Racial Satire Alone

Recent parodies of Blacks and Asians in college newspapers in the name of satire have been met with condemnation, including journalism scholars who say free-thinking future journalists need to “grow up and put on their thinking caps.”

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Princeton Newspaper Column Prompts Calls Of Racism

PRINCETON BOROUGH, N.J. An article in the annual joke issue of Princeton University’s student newspaper has left some readers accusing its staff of racism. The Daily Princetonian issue included a column with a byline that closely resembles the name of Jian Li, an 18-year-old Asian man who filed a civil rights complaint against the university last summer after he was denied admission.

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Sincerely “Reaching Out”?

I was appalled by the fact that a column addressing “reaching and recruiting under represented students” was…

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Taking a Stand

Every December, the nation pauses to remember Pearl Harbor, the site of the 1941 Japanese surprise attack that propelled…

Historians John Hope Franklin, Yu Ying-shih Named Winners of 2006 John W. Kluge Prize for the Study of Humanity

Drs. John Hope Franklin and Yu Ying-shih have been named the recipients of the third John W. Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the study of humanity, the Library of Congress announced Wednesday. They will share the $1 million prize.

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Refuting Myths

Very good analysis…

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