NEW YORK - Jin is a rapper. He is also an Asian American. His parents emigrated from Hong Kong and settled in Miami, where he...
By Alona Wartofsky | Special to The Washington Post
November 24, 2004
The public editor of the Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA), Marvin Lake, announced in a November 14 Virginian-Pilot column that the newspaper had dropped right-wing pundit and...
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November 23, 2004
The major broadcast networks have made strides in bringing minorities into the TV picture, but Asian Pacific Americans are still underrepresented, according to Multi-Ethnic Media...
By Lynn Elber | AsianWeek.com
October 24, 2003
Oct. 10, 2003 | A lot of guys might jump at the opportunity to take a free trip to Los Angeles, have sex with a...
By Harry Mok | Salon.com
October 10, 2003
Is negative racial stereotyping of ethnic minorities in the media harmful to our society and to our children as they grow up in a nation...
By Kok Heong McNaughton | A/PI Caucus of DRUUMM
July 19, 2003
When gender-bending celebrity actor Leslie Cheung jumped to his death recently, he wrote a postscript to the wild, uninhibited era of Hong Kong film, a...
By Andrew Lam | Pacific News Service
April 19, 2003
In the film "Better Luck Tomorrow," a perfectionist Asian-American male high school student relieves his stress by flirting with the darker side of life. By...
By Olivia Tam | USC Daily Trojan
April 16, 2003
E-mails about it have been popping up in my inbox more often than Viagra ads. Asian American magazines have been treating it like long-awaited salvation...
By Gavin Tachibana | In the Fray
April 12, 2003
"Better Luck Tomorrow" has been derided by some for its violent subject matter and amoral characters, while championed by big-name critics for its sharp wit...
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April 06, 2003
"I wanted to be blonde and beautiful. And this was the closest I was going to get," says Meena, an Indian-American. The thought of being...
By Lakshmi Chaudhry | Alternet
February 04, 2003
We can't all have the instant recognition of Connie Chung. But her success has helped inspire young Asian-American women to become TV journalists. An Asian...
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January 30, 2003
And television has not been especially welcoming to Asian characters. Medical series Presidio Med and MDs came under fire last fall for being set in...
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January 23, 2003
Let’s not kid ourselves—if this incident had occurred between a white and a black man, it would have caused an explosion of outrage. Had Yao...
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January 20, 2003
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December 21, 2002
Tony Award-winner LEA SALONGA stars in the production as Mei-Li, a young girl from Communist China who finds her way to San Francisco's Chinatown in...
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September 18, 2002
"Beyond The Yellow Peril: Asian Americans And Hollywood": Battling racial discrimination and stereotyping, Asian Americans have been influencing Hollywood, both in front of and behind...
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September 04, 2002
Sandy Dalal Indian fashion designer and native New Yorker Dalal was a student at Yune's alma mater (the University of Pennsylvania) until the world...
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September 02, 2002
EurasianNation: You guys really brought the house down at the Def Poetry Jam. How did that feel? Catzie: It feels kind of rewarding, kind of...
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September 01, 2002
It‘s no surprise, and nothing new. The hit film “The Fast and the Furious” also stole an Asian cultural phenomenon – import racing – dropped...
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August 26, 2002
The all-star panel for "Race: A Laughing Matter" included Guy Aoki, president of the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, which led the protest against...
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August 25, 2002
A presentation of the National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA), the 21st SFIAAFF will run from March 6-16, 2003 at the AMC Kabuki 8 Theatres...
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August 15, 2002
On the "Star Trek" legacy of casting people of color: "I'm very proud to be part of a franchise that for the past 16 years...
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July 22, 2002
Two years ago, the coalition secured agreements from the four major networks to increase the number of minorities on screen and off. There have been...
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July 20, 2002
The ad -- which depicts Adulyadej as a bling-bling hipster with bleached highlights, lines shaved into his hair, stone-encrusted glasses and a shirt that sports...
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June 30, 2002
A comedian of Indonesian descent calls her show "Kate's Chink-O-Rama." A Vietnamese American college newspaper editor mocks himself in print as "editor-in-Chink." A Taiwanese American...
By James Sullivan | San Francisco Chronicle
June 27, 2002
SINGAPORE (AP) -- Singapore pop star and television actress Fann Wong proudly extends a slender arm to show off her battle scars: a cut, a...
By Alexa Olesen | Associated Press
June 20, 2002
While the festival's diverse span of topics and genres includes characters who navigate jagged gender and sexuality terrains, gay Asian characters also must tread along...
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June 10, 2002
Kicking off the summer broadcast, Summer's Hottest Figures (1:00 p.m - 4:00 p.m. EST) featured 20 taut & toned bodies sweating, showering, and crowd-humping their...
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June 02, 2002
In a most unexpected move, after premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January to rave reviews, MTV picks up the first ever film about...
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June 01, 2002
The cocktail reception and silent auction begin at 6:00. This year's awards will recognize the feature film The Debut and the TV series Off-Centre and...
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June 01, 2002
The Rock is of black and Samoan heritage, while Diesel is reportedly of black and Italian descent (he won't elaborate--"just say I'm multicultural," he told...
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May 29, 2002
The past couple of years have seen the romance heat up between mainstream pop culture and all things Asian. The trend extends from the world...
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May 19, 2002
So what more do these kids want? A big, fat payoff. According to the "BoycottAF" Web site (www.boycottaf.com), run by a nationwide coalition of Asian-American...
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May 15, 2002
But the thing that got my attention first was that the first place I saw this billboard was right in the middle of Beacon Hill...
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May 13, 2002
As you might have figured out, in an age where there is no such thing as bad publicity, Abercrombie hit a gold mine. The kind...
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May 11, 2002
When this 23-year-old actress is not soaring through the air with Chow Yun Fat in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or kicking Jackie Chan’s ass in...
By Ji Hyun Lim | AsianWeek
May 09, 2002
In the attention-deficit-disorder world of mainstream music, the average listener plays a finicky musical nomad, unremittingly traversing from one soundscape to the next. Right now...
By Bobby Kim | KoreAm Journal
May 09, 2002
Abercrombie & Fitch tried to sell some silly T-shirts with Asian caricatures a few weeks ago. One showed a pair of slant-eyed Chinese men with...
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May 01, 2002
