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 I'm editor in chief of Hyphen, a magazine about Asian America for the culturally and politically savvy. Check out Disgrasian.com bloggers Diana Nguyen and Jen Wang and more in The Trailblazing Issue.
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Diana Nguyen and Jen Wang of Disgrasian.com in an outtake from the cover shoot for Hyphen magazine's Trailblazing Issue. (Photo by Derek Liu) Hyphen just published its Trailblazing Issue, with Disgrasian bloggers Diana Nguyen and Jen Wang on the cover. Read all about it on the Hyphen blog and my editor’s note from the magazine. Interesting tidbit from a New York Times story about a study of interracial college roommates: Those who roomed with Asian Americans became more prejudiced. The Times article focused mostly on black-white relationships but this paragraph caught my eye: Several studies have shown that living with a roommate of a different race changes students’ attitudes. One, from the [...] In his latest piece at SFGate, Asian Pop columnist Jeff Yang wonders if the term Asian American has relevance in today’s world. Activists began using “Asian American” during 1960s civil rights movement as a way to forge their own identity in a society that considered them orientals and outsiders. What does Asian American mean now? It’s a question we [...] Very sad news about the passing of Ronald Takaki and Him Mark Lai. Both were great scholars, historians and human beings. Hyphen’s own Lisa Lee was honored by our old friend Angry Asian Man on his 30 Under 30 list of influential Asian Americans. Angry Asian Man picked Lisa, Hyphen’s publisher, “Because she’s making sure Asian Americans have a voice in print.” See the full post at Hyphen magazine’s blog. I was going to see the “Star Trek” reboot tonight, but my in into the advance screening bailed on me, so I’ll wait till this weekend. We brought back a couple of “Star Trek” related articles on Hyphenmagazine.com to mark the movie’s opening. One is a Q&A with John Cho, who plays Sulu in the movie, [...] Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is resigning, according to the San Jose Mercury News and other sources. Yang has told Yahoo employees that he will stay on until a replacement is found. John Cho in 'Star Trek.' I had to geek out about the just-released full trailer for the “Star Trek” prequel that’s coming out next year. This may not come as a great shock, but a new comprehensive study of Chinese Americans finds that they face “glass ceiling” obstacles in the workplace. This video is funny but true. Lots of Asian food, no Asian people on the Food Network other than Ming Tsai, and his show isn’t on the network anymore. An aside: I saw Tsai, the East Meets West star, when I was celebrating my birthday at Alan Wong’s restaurant in Honolulu a few weeks back. Didn’t [...] |
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