Hyphen magazine - Asian American arts, culture, and politics

Latest Magazine Articles

Features

Farming Silicon Valley

Farming Silicon Valley

Chinese farmers continue to wage a battle for farmland in the heart of the tech industry

ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Watch a video of the Kuangs working on...

Li Miao Lovett | Food and Agriculture, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
Islands in the Sand

Islands in the Sand

Why thousands of Hawaiian prisoners are languishing in the Arizona desert

Written by Toshio Meronek

Toshio Meronek | Feature, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
Fixin’ to Go Mainstream

Fixin’ to Go Mainstream

Asian Americans are on the rise in Southern politics.

A look at today's Southern crop of Asian American leaders.

Lin Yang | Politics, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
| Comments: 1
'Round Here

'Round Here

Some 250 years ago, a group of Filipinos escaped Spanish galleons off the coast of Louisiana. They were the first Asian Americans. In this issue, we explore the South, a region vital to, but often...

Lisa Wong Macabasco | Editor's Note, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013

Issue 26: The South Issue Contributors

As a 32-year-old woman frequently mistaken for a 16-year-old boy, writer Mandy Hu caught a performance by gender-bending comedian D’Lo and found it a revelation. In a profile of D...

Lisa Wong Macabasco | Contributors, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
A Sweet Gig

A Sweet Gig

Confectionery artisan and designer Jenna Park adds sugar and spice to the blog world.

It’s hard to identify Jenna Park by what she does. Is she an entrepreneur, art director, designer, blogger or photographer? In this case, it’s all of the above, and Park is skilled in all she does...

Gloria Kim | Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013, Takeout
Discrimination Down to a Science

Discrimination Down to a Science

How genetic data shapes science and medicine and what is being done to change it.

With direct-to-consumer genetic testing, much is promised about your future bodily doings and destiny, from cancer treatment to the composition of your soul. But is the promise really for you? I...

Dharushana Muth... | Health, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
| Comments: 1
Southern Exposure

Southern Exposure

How I learned to take pictures

Photographer & Writer Indigo Som

A year before Hurricane Katrina, I landed in New Orleans with my partner Donna Keiko Ozawa, a generous grant from Creative Work Fund and too much...

Indigo Som | Recipe, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
Behind the Fried Rice Curtain, Part 1

Behind the Fried Rice Curtain, Part 1

Personal histories from Southern Chinese American restaurant families

I grew up in my parents’ Chinese restaurant in Abbeville, SC. We were the only Asian Americans in a town of not quite 6,000 that was known as the “birthplace and the deathbed of the...

Anita Chen | Food and Agriculture, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013
Behind the Fried Rice Curtain, Part 2

Behind the Fried Rice Curtain, Part 2

Personal histories from Southern Chinese American restaurant families

Growing up in the 1940s in Macon, GA, where we were the only Chinese family in town, I never knew Chinese restaurants existed.

John Jung | Food and Agriculture, Issue 26: The South - Spring 2013

Current Issue: 26

The South Issue

Mosey with us through the South, a region rich with history and culture -- and one that is vital to, but often overlooked in, Asian American history.

Current Hyphen Magazine Issue

Hyphen Email Updates

Be Our Friend

Facebook Twitter YouTube Flickr

Digital Issue

The previous issue of Hyphen is available in its entirety for your perusing pleasure. Almost as good as having it right in your hands!

San Diego Asian Film Festival

Twitter

HYPHEN ON FACEBOOK