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Asian American Pacific Islander

Univ. of Mississippi to Open Japanese Saturday School

OXFORD Miss. The University of Mississippi plans to open a Japanese Saturday school for children whose families are moving from Japan to work at a Toyota plant that is being built in Blue Springs.

July 15, 2007

Students

Loan debt: a new view

Student loan debt. It weighs heavily upon hundreds of thousands of Americans. It also is the leading reason African Americans drop out of college. Yet, surprisingly, a new study shows that indebted Black students actually are carrying a lighter debt load than their White and Asian peers. And they tend to come from households that have comparably higher incomes.

July 12, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

Carving Out Their Own Niche

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

May 30, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

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.”

May 9, 2007

Students

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.

April 19, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

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.

March 1, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

Overshadowed

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

February 7, 2007

Students

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.”

January 28, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

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.

January 20, 2007

Asian American Pacific Islander

Sincerely “Reaching Out”?

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

December 27, 2006

Asian American Pacific Islander

Refuting Myths

Very good analysis…

November 1, 2006

African-American

Perceptions and Realities

Tension may exist between Blacks and Hispanics over jobs and political power in the United States…

October 4, 2006