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Why Asian American Representation on RuPaul’s Drag Race Matters

Why Asian American Representation on RuPaul’s Drag Race Matters

Diversity and inclusivity? Shantay you stay — by Chandler Rumbaugh
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Chandler Rumbaugh
Reconciling with the Ghosts of Our Past — Japanese Internment Camps

Reconciling with the Ghosts of Our Past — Japanese Internment Camps

The year is 1942 and you are woken up by the unrelenting sound of soldiers banging on your front door. They inform you that you only have…
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Chase Grimmer
Advertising, The Great (Asian) American Art Form: What Possible Futures Come From Seizing the Means…

Advertising, The Great (Asian) American Art Form: What Possible Fut...

Here’s a bold idea already fraught with some impending criticism: advertising is a form of poetry. Maybe it isn’t impossible to conceive…
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Jackson Cross
The Toxic “Positive Representation” Idea: Asian American Women in Media

The Toxic “Positive Representation” Idea: Asian American Women in M...

Look back and remember the time when you first saw someone who looked just like you on TV. How did that moment feel? Were you shocked? Were…
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Anna Chang
How ‘Gook’ Breaks the Racial Barrier Between African-Americans and Asian-Americans and Why it is…

How ‘Gook’ Breaks the Racial Barrier Between African-Americans and ...

On April 29, 1992, the LA Uprising took place. Violence, protests, and riots were initiated in the city. Asian American Justin Chon’s…
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Mateo Pastor Vasquez
Biopolitics, Techno-Orientalism, and the Asian American community

Biopolitics, Techno-Orientalism, and the Asian American community

Michel Foucault’s revolutionary concepts of biopolitics and biopower has be applied in a variety of fields, ranging from medical…
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Jackiegu
Environmentalism in Iep Jaltok: Poems From a Marshallese Daughter

Environmentalism in Iep Jaltok: Poems From a Marshallese Daughter

Pacific-Islander and Native communities have historically been victims of economic and environmental exploitation, at the hands of global…
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xenweakly
“Girls Carry on the Lineage”

“Girls Carry on the Lineage”

The Writings of Haunani-Kay Trask and Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner as Exploration of Indigenous Women’s Resistance to Colonial Legacies
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Emma Salyards
The Filipino Nurse Stereotype & Why It Makes You Uncomfortable

The Filipino Nurse Stereotype & Why It Makes You Uncomfortable

While the Filipino nurse stereotype, in and of itself, is not harmful, its foundation of imperialism and racial prejudices are.
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Angelica Sevilla
Asian American Literature- Who is Successful and Who is Not?

Asian American Literature- Who is Successful and Who is Not?

By: Nasya Richardson
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Nasya Richardson
Claiming Asian American Queer Ancestors — Validation and Representation

Claiming Asian American Queer Ancestors — Validation and Representa...

Asian American values and cultural norms have had much to do with early and modern white supremacy and the effects of colonialism on Asian…
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Kyra Pollock
The Intersectionality of Queerness and Asian-Americanness in Individual Identities

The Intersectionality of Queerness and Asian-Americanness in Indivi...

Introduction
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logan p.
Hawaii: through a transparent lens

Hawaii: through a transparent lens

Vacations. Top-notch service. A paradise that seems so unreal it seems like fantasy. When most Americans think of Hawaii, this is probably…
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Haritha Mohan
Anticommunism: An excuse for hypocrisy and murder

Anticommunism: An excuse for hypocrisy and murder

Throughout human history, empires have relied on ideological legitimacy in order to sustain themselves, both at home and abroad. Even as…
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Oscar
Morals and the Model Minority Myth

Morals and the Model Minority Myth

Typically, when you think of the word “myth” your mind is drawn to thoughts of natural phenomena, supernatural events, or intense and…
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Gavin Masa
The Activism Haunani-Kay Trask: The Fight for Hawaiian Sovereignty

The Activism Haunani-Kay Trask: The Fight for Hawaiian Sovereignty

With the post-pandemic boom, tens of thousands of US tourists have flooded the island of Hawai’i in search of a paradisiacal escape. This…
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Betissak
Asian-American Refugee Experience in the United States

Asian-American Refugee Experience in the United States

Since the inception of America, there had been a plethora of Asian American refugees. Inside these Asian immigrant communities, there…
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Kyaw Aye
The Case of the Marshall Islands

The Case of the Marshall Islands

By Sania Khazi
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Sania Khazi
American Colonization in Hawai’i and Guam and the Ongoing Fight for Autonomy

American Colonization in Hawai’i and Guam and the Ongoing Fight for...

For hundreds of years, the United States has heralded itself as a beacon of freedom around the world, following its independence and…
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Cameron Johnson
“America’s” Islands Under Attack: U.S. Destruction, Exploitation and Colonialism

“America’s” Islands Under Attack: U.S. Destruction, Exploitation an...

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Ahjada Ingram
Justice Equals Change

Justice Equals Change

Oftentimes, the harsh realities of minorities are portrayed in media such as, music, and on the big screen. They detail drama-filled, yet…
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Matthew Greene
The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans: How Claire Jean Kim’s argument helped increase the…

The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans: How Claire Jean Kim’s ...

The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans: How Claire Jean Kim’s argument helped increase the knowledge of the inequality of Asian…
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Juliatay
Immigration, Assimilation, and Multi-Generational Trauma: Asian American Experiences in Film

Immigration, Assimilation, and Multi-Generational Trauma: Asian Ame...

As Western film media ever-expands to feature films coming from more diverse backgrounds and perspectives than it has traditionally…
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Evan Davison
@gentle.oriental

@gentle.oriental

Instagram Transformed as an Interactive Museum of Asian American Culture
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katherinecrutchfield
How do the complex dynamics among racial groups and the tensions from societal systems contribute…

How do the complex dynamics among racial groups and the tensions fr...

As a society, we can trace back instances of racism towards Asian Americans from as early as the gold rush. Westernized society surmounting…
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Kerragan Brunner
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