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Introduction to Asian Issues.

♦ Anti-Asian Racism, Civil Rights and Social Stigmata ♦
 

1. Asians Against White Supremacy: On the origins of anti-Asian racism and how we have fought back
2. Asian emasculation, racism & rampage
3. Racist Casting - Upcoming '21' Movie about MIT Blackjack Team
4. Asian Americans Seen Negatively - Results of Landmark Survey Disheartening
5. Discrimination Against Asian Americans for College Admission
6. Videogames Stereotype Asians (article)
7. American Youth Killing Asian Teens for Sport (called 'chink bashing')
8. Closet Racists and the Things They Say
9. Mistakes White People make when talking about Race
10. Economic Inequality: The foundation of the racial divide
11. Asian kid fends off racist and may get charged
12. Australian Police thinks of banning Asian events stops violence.
13. Asian Canadian community unites over attacks on anglers - Part II
14. The Asian-Jewish connection: Is it really kosher to call Asians the "new Jews"?
15. Jeff Yang’s Profile of an Asian Male Porn Star
16. Korean woman humiliated by anti-Chinese slurs in Vegas
17. Remembering Whatcom County’s Chinese expulsion 125 years later
18. California Apologizes to Chinese Americans
19. Internalized Racism: A Definition By Donna Bivens
20. Article: Stereotypes in the media
21. Jill Stanek: Asians Eat Babies
22. The Xenophobic, Anti-Asian Bias in Recent Media
23. Mad TV Clip about IR Couple, revealing closet racism
24. Mass Conditioning, Social Norms, Asian Images
25. The Racist Portrayal of Asian Americans in America
26. How Media affects Asian Youth's 'Self Concept'
27. Hollywood fails ethnic realism test
28. Asian Americans in the TV Media: Creating incentive for change
29. Men jailed for brutal bashing of Chinese pair
30. No Miley Justice on racist eye pulling
31. Lou Dobbs to resign from CNN after pressure by advocacy groups
32. Interview with Anti-CNN Founder Qi Hanting
33. Jeff Yang writes on "Is white the new black"?

♦ Education, Politics, Economics, War and the World ♦
 

1. Michael Hudson's "Super Imperialism": The Economic Strategy of Imperial America
2. American Racism/Xenophobia over Toyota Joining Nascar
3. Ward Connerly: UC admission plan allows discrimination
4. China says 'No Thanks' to G2 by Jian Junbo
5. Neoliberalism, White male privilege & the current financial crisis
6. The Chinese on Gold Rush (Australia)
7. American Hegemony - The Time
8. Asian Intellectuals & knowledge production
9. The Exclusion of Asian Canadian Studies: Marginalization of Academia
10. Economic Inequality: The Foundation of the Racial Divide
11. Where are the Asian CEOs?
12. The Timeline of American Hegemony
13. Globalization and Racism
14. Anti-CNN to drop name, change identity
15. Him Mark Lai: Dean of Chinese American history passes away 1925-2009)
16. Why We must End The War (Korean War)
17. Official U.S. history of atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is more fiction than fact
18. 26 Asian Students Attacked at Philly High School
19. Canada 'scratching the surface' with China: Harper
20. Obama and Hu announce comprehensive strategy for clean energy and climate change collaboration
21. Asian American Civil Rights Groups Applaud Signing of Federal Hate Crimes Legislation
22. Chris Lu, Cabinet Secretary, Talks about being Asian American in the White House
23. Obama signs executive order to restore AAPI initiative
24. Serial Pedophile Who Bought 5-Year-Old Vietnamese Sex Slave is Up For Parole
25. Australia foreign student abuse, Protestors in Action
26. Why We Must End the Korean War
27. Macleans Racism (Part I) - Macleans says "Too Asian", We say "Too Racist",
    Macleans Racism (Part II) - Open letter to Maclean's calling for end to "anti-Asian racism"
    Macleans Racism (Part III) - 'Too Asian?' and the Firestorm It's Fanning
28. Petition: Stop the U.S./South Korean Attack on DPRK
29. Philadelphia Settles Anti-Asian Pogram in Schools

♦ Asian Identity, Heritage & Awareness ♦
 

1. Passing as an Asian
2. Asian American identity problems
3. Sharing Experiences of a 'Whitewashed' Phase
4. Educating nonAsians on Asian American Issues
5. Our Child Only Speaks English and It’s Not Okay
6. Another Uncle Tom'ish Asian American Comedian: Tina Kim
7. Help Promote Asian American Studies!
8. Obligation to learn and speak your heritage language?
9. Assimilation or Multi-Culturalism?
10. Asian American Assimilation vs Acculturation
11. Youtube CNN Vid: Asians and College Pressure.. Obsession Over Prestige
12. The Rise of China and the Future of the West
13. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
14. Why can't we all just be colorblind?
15. 'Tracking the trend of angry Asian men'
16. Why They hate China
17. Hong Kong refuses entry to British paedophile
18. Can a Super Self-Hating Asian Male Icon Help Asian America?
19. NY Times Article About 'White Worship' Among Asians
20. White Worship as a Tolerance?
21. Common Lame Excuses by Self Haters and Proper Responses
22. Global Luxury Brands Target Asian Desire to Show Off Wealth
23. I believe it starts with the parents
24. Raising the next generation of Asian American men
25. Roger Fan: 'Not enough Asian American unity/pride, Asian Americans assimilate [too much], at loss of
26. identity'
27. Misconceptions on Asian culture
28. Does anyone here follow the Asian religions?
29. Undocumented Immigrants
30. Culture and point of view
31. Adoptions must stay in Korea, no Hollywood trend adoptions
32. Chinese-Americans taken at face value By Rong Xiaoqing

♦ Impact of Mass Media and Asian Representation ♦

1. One of the dumbiest things you can do is pay to be insulted
2. Chow Yun Fat: "Hollywood does not accept Asian actors for leading men"
3. MANAA - Restrictive Portrayals of Asians in the Media and How to Balance Them (MANAA)
4. Opinion: ‘21’ Discriminatory Casting Unjustified
5. Stereotype of Asian Male Oppression
   
6. Vanishing Son By Amy Kashiwabara (paper)
7. Tila Tequila on MTV, any opinions?
8. Hollywood remakes of Asian films. Cultural imperialism?
9. Collection of Asian American Videos
10. Impact of Korean Entertainment on Asian Women
11. Anime & Comic 'whitewashing' is Hollywood's adaptation
12. TODAY: 'Slanted Screen' Documentary on NPR and PBS!!
13. A problem with Asian owned Media
14. 'Law & Order' actor B.D. Wong on mission to raise respect for one another's differences
15. How Do We Increase the Niche Asian American Market?
16. Top 25 All-Time Most Infamous Yellow Face Film Performances, Part I
17. Studies Find No Upward Social Mobility for Asian Americans
18. List of Asian American characters we want and need to see in the media
19. Running Diary of Last Night's TV Experience
20. Why Do Manga and Anime Characters Look the Way They Do? (white worship)
21. Seeing Yourself in Film, Media
22. Brandon Lee:"30 yrs later, nothing has changed"
23. Another Uncle Tom Asian American Comedian: Sung Hee Park
24. Collection Thread of Anti-Olympics, Anti-Chinese Western News
25. Survey: Asian American Journalists Worry About Commitment to Newsroom Diversity
    
26. Time's Article on Morality (and why Asians keep getting murdered)
    
27. Restrictive Portrayals of Asians in the Media and How to Balance Them
28. Mr. Hyphen' Contest Winner Uses Activism To Redefine The Image Of Asian-American Men
29. Angry Asian Man' aims to trump stereotypes
30. Matsui's MVP Award Important For Asians, World In MLB
31. A look at Hollywood's China syndrome
32. Directing Hollywood Movies - It’s a White Guy’s Thing
33. Asian American actor refuses to participate in table read for 'Red Dawn' remake
34. Rosie O'Donnell: 'Ching Chong' Jokes
35. Why E.R. Will Never Have an Asian Male Doctor
36. Asian young spend nearly 10 hours a day consuming media: study
37. List of Yellow Face Still Used in Current Media
38. How Influential is Mass Media?
39. Examples of How the Media Influences Your Behavior [article] 

♦ Racist Interraccial Relationships / Inequality driving dating trends ♦

1. Interesting Wiki Quote on 'Asian Fetish'
2. Deconstructing 'Asian fetish' - the appeal of physical appearance and/or cultural traits
3. The phenomenon of "Asian Fetish"
4. A Hapa Calls Out AF/WM Pairs Who Degrade Asian Males
5. Racist love or physical preference?
6. Dec 15 Facebook Conversation between Kevin and Alvin
7. Another Crap Asian American Movie: 'Falling for Grace'
8. The Postmodern Dilemma of the Asian Female: Why can't I find a white man who doesn't fetishize me?
9. In another group: 'Are Asian Girls Easy?'
10. An Economist Solves the Mysteries of [Interracial] Dating
11. Interracial dating & marriage
12. Asian Women & White Men - What's the Dealio?
13. INTERESTING Data from Study of Online Dating Websites
14. Female Tries to Justify Not Considering Asian Men
15. "Is Love Colorblind?" by Steve Sailer
16. Interracial Fetish/Worship Articles Thread
17. AA Activism and IR
18. Racist attraction manufactured by society / Media?

♦ Development of Asian Feminism, White Patriarchy, Women in Media ♦

1. L'Oréal Wanted Thin, White Women For Jobs
2. Essay: 'Why the Joy Luck Club Sucks'
3. Cinematical Seven: Asian-American Actors Ready To Break Out
4. Feminism, Race, and Class
5. Asian Feminists vs Asian American Feminists
6. Asian/Asian American Women Face 'Model Minority' Pressures links to Highest Rates of Suicides
7. Women Immigrants Change America (and Themselves)
   
8. Thought from an Asian American Woman on Asian Beauty
9. Youtube: 'Asian American Beauty' (must see)
10. Time Magazine article: Asians remaking themselves to look more Caucasian 
11. Gina Choe, vid of her disaster moment on 'America's Next Top Model 
12. Korean Paper about Miss Universe: "Lee Ha-nui is becoming more beautiful in the eyes of the White race too.
13. My Piece on Attraction
14. Crimes targeting at asian women
15. 'K' tells Montel About Asian Nose, Eyelid Plastic Surgery
16. Youtube Vid About Why Korean Men Are So Hot?
17. Shiseido FINALLY uses Japanese Women in its own Ads 
18. Asian Male Body Image
19. Asian Female Body Image
20. Skin: The New Status Symbol 
21. Murder Through the Looking Glass By Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
22. Apple's degrades and cheaply sell Asian women apps
23. Meet Tamlyn Tomita, the Leading Lady of AAPIs in Hollywood
24. Asian Women Scholars in Higher Education
25. Melrose Place degrades Asian women, a student prostitute stereotype?
26. Australian Jeanswest Denim depicts a racist message
27. Minority and women writers remain underemployed and underpaid in Hollywood
28. Historic Nominations by President Obama of Asian Americans to Federal Bench
29. Melbourne: The racist killing of university researcher
30. Judy Chu Wins is the first Chinese American congresswoman in U.S.
31. R.I.P People Power's Philippine Saint: Corazon Aquino, 1933-2009

♦ Asian / Pacific Islander Health Issues ♦

1. Asian American Lifestyle - US - November 2009
2. Understanding STD's and Health Disparities in Asian American Communities
3. Asian American Acculturation, Sexuality, and Health
4. Asian American Women Missing Out on Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer Risk
   
5. Asian Women Face 'Model Minority' Pressures
6. Soy May Help Shield Asian-American Girls From Breast Cancer
   
7. Suicide In Asian Americans
8. Asian Suicide, it's not caused by "Culture" or "Confucianism"
9. In Sickness and in Health: UCSF Clinical Fellow Donates Kidney to Ailing Wife
10. New report reveals grave Education disparities among Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Education in California
11. Asian Americans more likely to die from suicide than any other ethnic group
12. Minority Groups Pick Up Worst European Eating Habits, Study Finds