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#AsianAmericans(Honorary White People) say they're American but feel like outsiders especially #Chinese yet still so profoundly ignorant to #UShistory-#Slavery-#JimCrow.#CivilRightsMovement lead to #HartCellerAct of 1965. #AntiBlackRacism,#AAPIHeritageMonth 
How the civil rights movement opened the door to immigrants of color facingsouth.org/2017/02/how-ci… #AntiADOS,#AntiBlackRacism,#AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPI #civilrightsmovement
What South Asian Americans owe to Civil Rights dukechronicle.com/article/2023/0… #AntiADOS,#AntiBlackRacism,#AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPI #civilrightsmovement
As we rest, reflect, & remember on this holiday weekend, here’s my 129th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to help ya do all three! Enjoy, & share more below, please. #twitterstorians
Starting with a few favorites from the week as usual, including @ehphd’s delightful thread of some of the best Tina Turner scholarship in honor of the icon’s passing:
Taryn White wrote for @SmithsonianMag on Edna Lewis, the mother of soul food:
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No American story is more pitch-perfect for the combination of #MemorialDay & #AAPIHeritageMonth than that of the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team, the all-Japanese American #WWII regiment that would by war's end become the most decorated unit in US military history.
The 442nd's more than 14,000 awards & honors include a posthumous Medal of Honor, awarded in March 1946 to Private Sadao Munemori for his heroic actions to save the lives of two fellow soldiers during heavy fighting along Italy's Gothic Line.
& as I write in my new @SatEvePost Considering History column, Munemori is just one of many Asian Americans who've received a posthumous Medal of Honor for their service & sacrifice. #twitterstorians
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"As we celebrate #AAPIHeritageMonth, the key word is 'belonging' for our patients, faculty, staff and students."
- Chancellor and Provost @jeffreypgold welcomes keynote @knguyenpoetry at @unmc @NebraskaMed for Asian American Heritage Month.
- Chancellor and Provost @jeffreypgold welcomes keynote @knguyenpoetry at @unmc @NebraskaMed for Asian American Heritage Month.
"Poetry and medicine are rarely mentioned in the same sentence, which is why I am so excited to join the two today. It is the art of taking what is unknowable and making it known."
- @knguyenpoetry, Vietnamese American award-winning poet and keynote for #AAPIHeritageMonth
- @knguyenpoetry, Vietnamese American award-winning poet and keynote for #AAPIHeritageMonth
"What makes narrative medicine so important is its emphasis on the literary arts. It boldly claims that an understanding of storytelling is necessary in medicine. It transforms a patient from symptom input to a real person who lives outside the diagnosis."
- @knguyenpoetry #AAPI
- @knguyenpoetry #AAPI
More than a century before Trump and his supporters vowed to "Keep America Great," White segregationists were striving to keep California White. They passed the state's flagrantly anti-Asian "Alien Land Law" on this day 110 years ago in 1913. An #AAPIHeritageMonth 🧵 1/
The growing presence of Japanese people alarmed racist White Californians. They formed the Asiatic Exclusion League in 1905. By 1908, the League had about 100,000 members. By the way, in 1910, about 40,000 Japanese people lived in California out of a population of 2.4 million. 2/
In the 1900s, 1910s and 1920s, the racist actions of the Asiatic Exclusion League were numerous. They boycotted Japanese-owned restaurants and tried to segregate the 93 Japanese students in San Francisco's public schools from the rest of the student body in 1906. 3/
🚨 JUST OUT ➡️ The 2023 STAATUS Index
Now in its third year, the STAATUS Index (Social Tracking of #AsianAmericans in the US) is the leading nationally representative survey of Americans' attitudes towards #AsianAmericans
🧵of some findings @taaforg #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIHM
Now in its third year, the STAATUS Index (Social Tracking of #AsianAmericans in the US) is the leading nationally representative survey of Americans' attitudes towards #AsianAmericans
🧵of some findings @taaforg #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIHM
1 in 4 Americans believe that #AsianAmericans are MORE LOYAL to their country of origin than to the United States
1 in 5 Americans still believe that Asian Americans are partly responsible for #COVID19
1 in 5 Americans still believe that Asian Americans are partly responsible for #COVID19
31% of Americans believe that #AsianAmericans should be subject to MORE SCRUTINY when working in areas considered critical to US global strategic competitiveness
On this #MemorialDayWeekend, at the end of another painfully long week, here’s my 78th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast eps, new & forthcoming books from the week. Add more below & solidarity! #twitterstorians
Gonna start with the best thread I read this week on guns in America, @UnlawfulEntries on lessons from her “Guns, Money, & Politics” class:
As we mourn with Uvalde, also an important moment to remember the town’s inspiring activist histories (h/t @CarisAdel):
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#AAPIHeritageMonth In 1912, when most Chinese were banned from entering America, 16-year old Mabel Ping-Hua Lee -on horseback - helped lead one of the largest suffragette marches of the time in NYC's Washington Square Park. (Her photo from the NY Tribune) newspapers.com/clip/54974276/…
Mabel Lee grew up in NYC's Chinatown - the daughter of a Chinese Protestant minister - it was a time when racist exclusion immigration laws made gender ratio of Chinese men/woman about 14:1 She attended @BarnardCollege & then @Columbia - 1st woman to receive PhD in Economics.
At age 18 she wrote for a student journal in which she argued that suffrage for women was necessary to a successful democracy - her speech "The Submerged Half" at invitation of the the Women's Political Union about the rights of woman in China was covered by the New York Times.
Thrilled to kick off our #AAPIHeritageMonth program with keynote speaker @chancellor_li from @UNOmaha to discuss the importance of community!
We are all from different families, cultures and backgrounds. The strength of an academic health center is in its diversity!
We are all from different families, cultures and backgrounds. The strength of an academic health center is in its diversity!
"This is a time of tragedy with recent hate crimes. This is also a time of opportunity. The more we can bring our communities together the better we can eliminate disparities. We are so lucky to have @chancellor_li's leadership!"
- Chancellor @jeffreypgold at #AAPIHeritageMonth
- Chancellor @jeffreypgold at #AAPIHeritageMonth
"With our 10,000 plus employees at @NebraskaMed, I am thrilled to celebrate #AAPIHM and to learn from our colleagues. Our culture is so important to our work in healthcare."
- @drjlinder CEO on the importance of diversity on our teams.
- @drjlinder CEO on the importance of diversity on our teams.
Here it is, my Diamond Jubilee (that’s 75 for you uncultured types) #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing, work, podcast eps, new & forthcoming books from the past week! Raise a glass and share more, please! #twitterstorians
Gotta open with a handful of the many vital pieces on this week’s deeply disturbing news out of the Supreme Court. Starting with @jackiantonovich’s great thread of @nursingclio pieces:
One of my favorite pieces of the week was @mollyjfarrell’s for @Slate on Ben Franklin & abortion:
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slate.com/news-and-polit…
#AAPIHeritageMonth My family was told by the military authorities that internment was for our own protection, but the machine guns and searchlights in the guard towers surrounding Heart Mountain, our internment camp in northern Wyoming, faced inward" - Norm Mineta 1931-2022
Remembering Norm Mineta who passed away this May 3 at age 90. Incarcerated by the U.S. Government as a little boy under Executive Order 9066 he grew up to become the first AAPI Mayor of a major US City, ten-term Congressman & first AAPI Cabinet member.
Norm Mineta was Secretary of Transportation on 9/11 & played an instrumental role in the crisis control of that day including grounding all air traffic within 2+ hrs. Ten days after the attacks he forbade all US airlines from racially profiling Middle Eastern & Muslim passengers.
🚨 JUST OUT: The 2022 STAATUS Index
Despite a new administration, attacks against our community continue to increase, reminding us that racism against #AsianAmericans is deeply embedded in US history, culture & institutions, and have been for over 150 years.
🧵 of some findings
Despite a new administration, attacks against our community continue to increase, reminding us that racism against #AsianAmericans is deeply embedded in US history, culture & institutions, and have been for over 150 years.
🧵 of some findings
1/ Compared to 2021, Americans in 2022 are nearly TWICE as likely to say that #AsianAmericans are at least partly responsible for #COVID19: 11% vs 21%
2/ Alarmingly, in 2022, 33% Americans believe that #AsianAmericans are MORE LOYAL to their country of origin than to the United States, up from 20% in 2021.
#AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIHM #APAHM
#AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPIHM #APAHM
#AAPIHeritageMonth Survivor Amanda Nguyen drafted the Sexual Assault Survivor's Bill of Rights in 2016 - it was signed into law by President Obama less than a year later as only the 21st bill in modern US history unanimously passed. Her organization @RiseNowUS has passed 40+ laws
helping to protect sexual assault survivors, including ensuring rape kits will not be destroyed before statute of limitations expirations. @RiseNowUS & @nguyen_amanda are working on a United Nations General Assembly resolution focused on sexual violence survivors' rights.
In 2018 Amanda Nguyen was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her work with Rise to pass the Sexual Assault Survivor's Bill of Rights - one of only 16 women to ever been nominated in the 117-year history of the prize. risenow.us
Good time to remember that ordinary people of color pioneered our modern Constitutional rights by bringing legal cases against racist laws & attitudes. Equal Protection owes a debt to a Chinese laundry owner who brought the case of Yick Wo in 1886 to SCOTUS. #AAPIHeritageMonth
In Yick Wo v. Hopkins 118 U.S. 356 (1886) laundry owner Lee Yick challenged the racist application of a San Francisco law requiring permits for laundries housed in wooden buildings. Why was it racist? Because of the 320 laundries in SF, 310 were wood & 240 were owned by Chinese
but not a single Chinese laundry was granted a permit. Chinese immigrants Lee Yick & Wo Lee were jailed after refusing to pay fines. They sued, arguing that the law violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment even though it was race neutral on its face.
It's #AAPIHeritageMonth! While #ItsAnHonorJustToBeAsian, I hope you can forgive me for straight-up bragging about all the Asian artists and activists that I've had the privilege of meeting. (I could never add everyone but I'll try to add this thread every day this month.)
@mayatuttle is a voice actor and drummer extraordinaire. (Check out @thecolourist) I've known her since 2nd grade, and since then she's taught me that if you show up and make art every day, you can go farther than you ever dreamed. Plus, she had a PUPPY PARTY at her wedding.
@mayatuttle @thecolourist @kinglchoi (instagram.com/bukakaydrag) blends drag and activism like no other. In his 5-min lip-synchs, you'll gasp, laugh, cry—and empty your pockets for queer youth and immigrants. And the dramatic reading at his wedding of the 1st Tinder convo with his hubby—ALL THE HAPPY TEARS
It's #AAPIHeritageMonth! I've always been a little overwhelmed at how to honor #APIDA/NHPI stories, esp after such overexposure in recent years. I've been processing a lot over the past, present, and future ... 1/
We can tell stories to complicate the binaries of black/white in the U.S. We can address racial triangulation and wedge dynamics. We can address overlaying and intermingled theologies that make up our faith , about how we see God and the church. #AAPIHeritageMonth 2/
Asian American & Pacific Islander American Heritage Month starts May 1st! I'll be doing posts each day in May #AAPIHeritageMonth focused on legal & other contributions by AAPIs - good time to remember: Asian American Studies curriculums began 50 years ago but still hard to find.
We have close to 4000 colleges degree granting colleges & universities in the United States today but only about 32 offer Asian American Studies curriculums.
Students have always been the catalyst starting in 1968 with a 5-month strike led by the Third World Liberation Front - a coalition of student groups demanding the creation of academic programs focused on histories of people of color.
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Presenting “Ellison Onizuka—The First Buddhist in Space.” An offering in celebration of #AAPIHeritageMonth and #MemorialDay.
Ellison Onizuka was born June 24, 1946 in Kealakekua on the Big Island of Hawai'i. His grandparents were immigrants to the sugar plantations, while his parents ran a small general store. Like many Hawaiian Buddhists of his generation he was active at the temple and in scouting.
Onizuka graduated from the University of Colorado in 1969 with a masters in aerospace engineering and immediately began his career in the Air Force. He served as a flight test engineer and test pilot on various bases in California before joining the astronaut class of 1978.
In 1874, J.L. Chow opened Chow Chow Laundry at 904 Elm Street. He was the first person of Asian descent to be listed in the city directories. By 1891, 41/49 laundries in Dallas were Chinese-owned.
Fueled by decades of bigotry, a propaganda campaign was initiated against Chinese laundries by White competitors.
The Dallas Daily Times Herald ran an editorial in 1894: Danger in Inferior Laundries: Dallas Customers Cannot Be Too Careful Where They Send Their Soiled Clothing.
The Dallas Daily Times Herald ran an editorial in 1894: Danger in Inferior Laundries: Dallas Customers Cannot Be Too Careful Where They Send Their Soiled Clothing.
"… the employees of the inferior laundries referred to, run the risk of contracting some vile disease… The people should give white laundries a chance" texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/met…
Presenting “Shimeji Kanazawa—Bodhisattva Leader in Compassionate Caregiving.” An offering in celebration of #AAPIHeritageMonth.
Shimeji Ryusaki (known as Shim within the community) was born in 1915 on the Big Island of Hawai'i, the oldest of 11 children. Her father was variously a famer, cowboy, cook, movie theatre operator, taxi driver, and auto mechanic, and her mother was a picture bride and farmer.
While Shim was living away from her family attending high school in Hilo and living at the Jodo Shu temple, her sister Emiko died at age 12. Shim was forced to confront the transiency of life and the need to treat others with care every single day.
In honor of #AAPIHeritageMonth,* let's talk about 1) why Asian Americans should be invested in advocating for Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a tool of racial liberation and 2) why this moment provides an opportunity for building deep and healing coalitions. 🧵 1/n
#CRT began as a critique of the failures of the civil rights movement in the works of brilliant scholars including Derrick Bell, @sandylocks, and Charles Lawrence III. It has two major tenets: 1) "colorblind" laws have failed and 2) we should aspire to true equity. 2/n
Race Crits speak the truth! Our cities are still segregated. The biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action are white women. Pay equity is a fantasy. And the Global South is suffering at the hands of the West. The heroic narrative of civil rights is settler colonial fiction. 3/n
Now that we are almost halfway through #AAPIHeritageMonth, I genuinely hope you’ve been celebrating the true diversity of #AAPI communities - from Pacific Islanders to queer/trans AAPIs to #BrownAsians and more.
Today, let’s talk more about Brown Asian American Movement.
Today, let’s talk more about Brown Asian American Movement.
If you don’t know about the #BrownAsian movement, here’s an article I wrote in 2019 about its history and current context. It’s titled “The Brown Asian American Movement: Advocating for South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Filipino American Communities”.
aapr.hkspublications.org/2020/02/02/the…
aapr.hkspublications.org/2020/02/02/the…
May we all acknowledge the many dynamics that occur in #AsianAmerican communities - especially when certain groups’ experiences are centered and presumed as the norm or most authentic, while others are forgotten, marginalized, or treated as mere afterthoughts.
Presenting “Rev. Kenryu Tsuji: Modern Buddhist Circuit Rider.” An offering in celebration of #AAPIHeritageMonth.
Takashi Tsuji was born in 1919 into a family of poor British Columbia farmers. His parents were immigrants to Canada from Shiga Prefecture, in central Japan. Despite his agricultural background, he determined to enter the Jodo Shinshu ministry.
Tsuji was the 1st Canadian to pursue ordination. He experienced culture and language issues while studying at Ryukoku University in Kyoto. Nevertheless, he achieved ordination, receiving the Dharma name Kenryu. He left Japan in Oct 1941 on the last ship to Canada before the war.
NAIK FAMILY AULAKI (POHA)
I teamed up with @comcast to share my recipe for a Maharashtrian Spiced Flattened Rice in celebration of #AAPIMonth. I ate this delicious dish all the time at home growing up in NY and in India when I visited.
Enjoy my rendition of Aulaki!
I teamed up with @comcast to share my recipe for a Maharashtrian Spiced Flattened Rice in celebration of #AAPIMonth. I ate this delicious dish all the time at home growing up in NY and in India when I visited.
Enjoy my rendition of Aulaki!
Vegan Aulaki:
1 c Flattened rice rinsed 5x, drained
1 russet🥔 peeled & diced
1 small red 🧅 diced
1-2 serrano chilies minced
1/2 fresh🍋
Handful fresh coriander chopped
1-2 tsp neutral oil
2 tbsp🥜
1/2 tsp hing
salt
1 tsp Turmeric
1/2 tsp sugar
1/4 c 🥥
Sev for garnish
1 c Flattened rice rinsed 5x, drained
1 russet🥔 peeled & diced
1 small red 🧅 diced
1-2 serrano chilies minced
1/2 fresh🍋
Handful fresh coriander chopped
1-2 tsp neutral oil
2 tbsp🥜
1/2 tsp hing
salt
1 tsp Turmeric
1/2 tsp sugar
1/4 c 🥥
Sev for garnish
Method:
1. Over medium heat, saute together onions, chilies, potato, peanuts, hing and salt in neutral oil until potatoes are fork tender (cover occasionally). Add in turmeric, sauce another 3-5 minutes.
@comcast #comcast #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPI #AAPIHM
1. Over medium heat, saute together onions, chilies, potato, peanuts, hing and salt in neutral oil until potatoes are fork tender (cover occasionally). Add in turmeric, sauce another 3-5 minutes.
@comcast #comcast #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPI #AAPIHM
