Asian American

And it’s time for the University to acknowledge it This op-ed was collaboratively composed by a multi-generational coalition that includes Doug Chan, Kevin Fan Hsu, Katie Gee Salisbury, Jacob Wang, and Connie Young Yu. There’s nothing like the feeling of entering Stanford University through the majestic, tree-lined approach of Palm…

This piece was rejected from Sine Theta Magazine’s summer writing contest on June 24, 2022. the peculiar taste of fire Melody tilted her head to the sky and wondered how the rain would feel against her blushing red skin, the roof of her mouth. It would be cool, probably. Cool and sweet. …

My 85-year-old father recently told me on Father’s Day that he hates chocolate. We were never that close, so I never knew, but it came up when I offered him a chocolate dessert after our meal. I was already familiar with his miserable childhood and how much he had to…

And How I Met the Global Sensation Before Linsanity On Feb. 4th, 2012, in a game where it seemed like much is lost, Jeremy Lin checked in for the Knicks off the bench, who were playing the New Jersey Nets that day. …

By John C. Yang, Connie Chung Joe, Grace Pai Vincent Chin would be 67 today if he hadn’t been killed. Forty years ago, he was brutally beaten to death by two white men in Detroit who had mistook him, a Chinese American, as Japanese and a foreigner. …

“I Speak ABC”: Asian American Ironic Consciousness in the Asian Renaissance Excerpted remarks for mine and Alvin Henry’s three-day seminar, “Asian Fun,” at ACLA 2022. It is clear as ever that even the possibility of a collective “we” in and of Asian America has been largely foreclosed by our intelligentsia…

Read Abigail Lee’s winning essay for the 2022 Vincent Chin Memorial Scholarship — By Abigail Lee, 2022 Vincent Chin Memorial Scholarship Recipient Abigail Lee is the 2022 recipient of the Vincent Chin Memorial Scholarship. Below is her winning essay. As the 40th anniversary of the murder of Vincent Chin draws closer, we wanted to share some of these essays here on Defined for…