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WHEN: Saturday, May 31
9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
WHERE: Cal State Long Beach
The main objective of the conference is to encourage and support Asian and Pacific Islander students to go to college and give them some information about admissions and health information as well.
Washington-based World Chinese League Wednesday urged U.S. TV network CNN to sincerely apologize for one of its political commentator’s insulting remarks about Chinese. The Chinese American organization said in a statement that all Chinese-Americans and Chinese were infuriated by Jack Cafferty’s outrageous comments aired on April 9 when Beijing Olympics torch relay was held in San Francisco, California.
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Most movie reviews focus in on the how great the special effects were in the film or how great the acting. My review will not focus in on those two topics but on the basic facts to which the film “21″ is based on.
Hollywood has always exploited minorities.
From the first gigantic money making blockbuster D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation where African American stereotypes were exploited to make money by white film makers.
To the casting of John Wayne as Genghis Khan, Omar Shariff again in the remake of Genghis Khan, Anthony Quinn as a Filipino freedom fighter, Yul Brynner as the King of Thailand, Ben Kingsley as Mohandas K. Gandhi.
My point is simply this:
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I was so relieved when I learned that the JabbaWokeez (an Asian American male dance crew) won the grand prize and title of America’s Best Dance Crew. I was on my cell phone sending in my votes via txt message all day. Part of their unique style is the matching masks which served as a vehicle for delivering some of their pantomime-like (the art or genre of conveying a story by bodily movements only) dance routines. They showcased their precision “bodily movements” week after week without fail. As one judge mentioned, the JabbaWokeez “set the standard for the next 10 seasons” of America’s Best Dance Crew.
Is this merely a blip in pop-culture on some two-bit dance show that nobody watches? I don’t think so. This is a sweet victory for Asian American men. Why? What kind of message does this single victory show? Think about what dancing represents– physical mastery, coordination, teamwork, competence, charisma, and sexual prowess. Yes, sexual prowess. Ladies, let’s not pretend that a man who is good at dancing is not thought of as being 100 times sexier than a man who isn’t.
But it’s also a bitter-sweet victory, because the masks enabled this crew to be seen for what they are– awesome dancers. It allowed them to not be pigeon-holed as “the Asian dudes.” It’s kind of sad that the masks were needed in order to convince the public that, in the end, they really weren’t just “the Asian dudes”.
I can’t begin to tell you how great I felt to be Asian at the very moment that they completely tossed the masks aside during their final performance. More than a physical gesture, it was a symbolic gesture to exert their dominance as the winners of this competition, despite their total and absolute humility. When asked to give a victory speech, what did the JabbaWokeez do? The very first thing that came out of their mouths was to give props to the other crew.
Chinese singer Li Yuchun performs at her solo concert held at the Shanghai Grand Stage on Sunday, March 9, 2008, ahead of her 24th birthday on Monday. At the show, Li Yuchun shed light on “Cha Sheng” (”Bad Student”), her first single this year which she co-wrote and also directed its music video. Emerging on the scene by winning the 2005 Super Girl, a singing competition similar to American Idol, the former tomboy has already had two full-length albums to her name.
David Henry Hwang is the first Asian American to win the Tony Award for Best Play he made his debut with Yellow Face, a satirical self-portrait of a writer caught in a controversy of his own creation.
Journalist Jeff Chang will be having a hip hop informal question and answer session at 3:30 p.m. and a lecture at 7 p.m. today in the auditorium at Willard J. Walker Hall. His first book “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop” is a history of the Hip hop Generation which examines the last three decades of hip-hop as it culminated from a music genre in the early 1970s into an identifiable culture. Chang earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California-Berkeley and a master’s degree in Asian American studies from the University of California-Los Angeles
Ramsay Hishinuma reflected on the time his grandfather Jinjuro Hishinuma spent at the Honouliuli Internment Camp during a forum and gathering yesterday at the Japanese Cultural Center marking the camp’s 65th anniversary.
Former residents of Honouliuli camp have mixed feelings
In 1978, a joint congressional resolution established Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week.
The first 10 days of May were chosen to coincide with two important
milestones in Asian/Pacific American history: the arrival in the United
States of the first Japanese immigrants (May 7, 1843) and contributions of
Chinese workers to the building of the transcontinental railroad, completed
on May 10, 1869. In 1992, Congress expanded the observance to a month long
celebration. Per a 1997 Office of Management and Budget directive, the
Asian or Pacific Islander racial category was separated into two
categories: Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
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Susan choi a Korean American writer has been receiving acclaim from the press and literary circles in the U.S; she was born to a Korean father and a Russian-Jewish mother and grew up in the U.S. Susan Choi’s “A Person of Interest” deals with the subtle racism that lurks in everyday American life. Her first book “The Foreign Student” is a love story between a Korean man and an American girl. The immigrant suffers painful memories of the Korean War while the girl suffers for an affair she had with a friend of her father. The LA Times called the book one of the top 10 novels of the year. Her second book, “American Woman,” published in 2003, was inspired by the 1974 kidnapping by a leftist guerrilla group of Patty Hearst, the daughter of a media mogul, who eventually accepted the group’s ideology and became one of them. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A Person of Interest” was based on the case of the Unabomber, an American terrorist who mail-bombed universities and airlines for 17 years from 1978, causing 26 casualties.