Before BTS, Stray Kids and NewJeans, there was The Kim Sisters, the original K-pop stars who toured the U.S. in the 1960s and appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show” 22 times.
Samantha Pak wrote about them for @Joysauce, and she also curated today’s Good Life newsletter, which includes stories about the Chinese typewriter, the first Indian woman in space, and the athlete who broke basketball’s color barrier. Find all those stories and more in this @Flipboard Storyboard.
Oh hey, just dropping in with another #ResearchSpotlight for #AAPIHeritageMonth! 👋 Looking at the demonization of AAPI communities in films and television series, Alexa Alice Joubin conducts important case studies about the impact of anti-Asian racism in media. Read Joubin's article here, and explore related work on CORE! https://buff.ly/3QMO30W
According to @Joysauce, fewer women in East Asia and Southeast Asia are choosing to have children — Taiwan has the world's lowest birth rate and South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau and Japan aren't far behind (or ahead, depending on your point of view). Jiaying Grygiel takes a look at the societal and economic reasons for these steeply falling birth rates. “People are making a perfectly rational decision about childbearing under the circumstances,” says Stuart Gietel-Basten, a professor of social science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
"Asian Americans are the least likely group to feel strongly that they belong in the U.S. Asian Americans are also least likely to feel strongly that they are accepted in the U.S.
38% of Asian Americans completely agree that they belong, while only 18% completely agree that they are accepted in the U.S. for their racial identity."
According to the National Museum of American History, more than half of all nail salons in the U.S. are owned by Vietnamese Americans. JoySauce tells the story of why that's the case — it all started with actress Tippi Hedren.
Tomorrow will be the release day of the third book of the epic MG fantasy series inspired by Chinese mythology , Winnie Zeng ! This series is a perfect read for #AAPIheritagemonth !
People usually trace Asian American movements to 1968.
But I found an old newspaper article about an "Oriental Students Association" at the University of California in 1907, with members from India, China, Thailand, and Japan.
Tomorrow's the day: We're doing the 1st preview of our San Francisco South Asian Radical History Tour.
We're putting final touches on the script, fact-checking details, printing out images, and practicing choreography for a street theater performance segment.
It's frustrating to have to drop rich details for brevity - hour-long interviews condensed to a minute. I'm hoping participants will ask questions so we can go deeper.