Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics

For the API community in Arizona, SB 1070 was a wake-up call. The “illegal immigration” raised enduring, fundamental questions about who was “in” or would be cast “out” of our society.

Call me old-fashioned or idealistic, but there is something really touching about the Four Freedoms paintings Norman Rockwell produced during World War II. Though we live in a different political landscape today, those freedom are no less...

A new service in Oakland's Chinatown delivers meals like chicken and black fungus wine soup to new moms.

Over the years, there has been debate over how to address those immigrants who have moved to America without the right paperwork. Each culture has its own unique way of and reason for describing them, from ‘living in hiding’ in Punjabi to ‘...