Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics

Councilmember Marion Barry has made yet another upsetting comment about the Asian American community. Despite an interest in meeting with the Ambassador of the Philippines, will Barry remain unapologetic?

Since I was very young, I have seen photographs of Jerome, AR. In one, my grandmother is standing in front of a black tar paper-covered barrack. She is holding my infant mother, who is wrapped in a wool blanket, a white cap on her head. There are...

When an event begins with something like, “Yes, it’s meant to be racist and discriminatory,” you can probably guess that some people are going to be upset. That’s exactly what UC Berkeley’s Campus Republicans did with their...

Grace Wang offers one of the smartest responses to Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother that we've read (and we've read a lot).