May 8, 2008
Is Eri Chan Appropriating an Asian Culture?
NPR’s Second Stage music section profiles American ex-pat Lizzie Moore who lives in Japan and performs Asian-inflected indie/electro music under the name Eri Chan. Her debut album—entitled Fire Fox—has a lead track “KitsuneBi” (“fire fox” in Japanese) and much of the album explores, in the artist’s words, "the thoughts of a girl living in Japan, fascinated by folklore and possessed by a fox."
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May 6, 2008
Everybody Loves the JabbaWockeeZ
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Flourishing Asian American Consciousness in Detroit
In a May 4th article, Erin Chan Ding from the Detroit Free Press discusses second-generation Asian American life in Detroit, a city historically known for its boom in community activism and cultural identity after the 1982 racially-motivated murder of Chinese American Vincent Chin.
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May 5, 2008
The Right to Get Married
There was a really great article comparing the same-sex marriage struggle to the fight against anti-miscegenation laws in the Pacific Citizen.Continue reading "The Right to Get Married"
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May 2, 2008
Win a Festival Pass to the the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Where are all my winners at?UPDATE: The pass has been given to B. Lam with the correct answer. The Los Angeles Pacific Film Festival was formerly known as the VC Film Fest. Congratulations and enjoy!
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May 1, 2008
Interview with TCM Asian Images in Film's Peter X. Feng
As Harry mentioned last week, Turner Classic Movies will be airing a month-long retrospective, "Race and Hollywood: Asian Images in Film," this June. I spoke about Asian/American images with the festival's co-host Peter X. Feng who is Associate Professor of film, ethnic, and cultural studies at the University of Delaware and author of the book Screening Asian Americans.Continue reading "Interview with TCM Asian Images in Film's Peter X. Feng"
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April 30, 2008
The 24th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
Ah, May is just around the corner and if you don't know already, it's Asian Pacific Heritage month. We here at Hyphen are sponsoring a great deal of awesome events for you.To kick things off, what's better than the 24th Annual Los Angeles Pacific Film Festival (formerly known as the VC FilmFest) for all you hip Los Angelenos?
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Vietnamese Deportation
Photo by Ari Simphoukham
I have been meaning to blog about last week's student actions in response to the recent agreement signed between the U.S. and Vietnam, allowing for thousands of folks currently living here to be deported.
Here's a story in the Daily Bruin about last week's student demonstrations, which included UCLA, UCSD, UC Davis, and other campuses.
According to Rhummanee Hang, a Cambodian American student at UC Davis who's a member of Southeast Asians Making Immediate Change (SEAMIC), last Wednesday's demonstration at her campus had a turnout of 200. There was a march, speakers and performers, spoken word artists, emcees, dancers, and signing of postcards to representatives.
This is how she explained, in an email, why students, particularly Southeast Asian students, are speaking up against the pact:
"Southeast Asians came to the United States as a result of the wars in Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos). Many of the 1.5 generation are the ones at risk of getting deported because of these policies. They came here when they were very young, grew up in this country, and their lifestyle, their way of thinking and being is very "American". Many of these people are not fluent in their native language and know little about the country where they were born. To send them back to a country that they are unfamiliar with and are still suffering from the affects of the war is unfair.
The current policies itself are unfair, because it offers no second chance. There is no due process for nationals who sign their rights away. But there are numerous reasons for why they might do that. Because this affects my community, I feel it is important. We speak up because they can't do it themselves."
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April 29, 2008
Philip Lim for GAP
I was on my way to East West Players' 42 Visionary Awards last night (post to follow) when I crossed a major intersection in Hollywood and saw this:
Anyway, do you see what I see?
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April 25, 2008
Of Potheads, Heroes
Check out this podcast by Arun Rath at Studio360 looking at why "Harold & Kumar" is so popular and why two Asian American potheads make such great underground heroes.Continue reading "Of Potheads, Heroes"
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