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Setting Down Roots in the Cereal Capital

Setting Down Roots in the Cereal Capital

A heartland story

Photos by Rita Kruk

In Battle Creek , MI, several hundred people are gathered to celebrate the grand opening of the Burma Center. Burmese women in the crowd are dressed in...

Cheryl Danley | Food and Agriculture, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012

Organic Family Matters

A tale of broken-down food scraps and parents’ wills.

Why, why, why did my parents throw away the compost bin?

Meghana Reddy | Food and Agriculture, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012
Remembering Danny

Remembering Danny

Memorializing a US Army private whose suicide is under investigation.

At 11:13 a.m. on a cold Monday morning in Afghanistan, another American soldier’s life was taken away. This time, the soldier’s death was not the result of shots fired by an enemy attack nor was...

Peter J. Swing | Exposure, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012
The Language of Seeds and Tents

The Language of Seeds and Tents

Gaye Chan and Michael Arcega’s makeshift architecture and critical dialogues of public space.

It began with papaya seedlings covertly planted on a narrow strip of grass between a roadway and a chain-link fence.

Gaye Chan and her partner, Nandita Sharma, deliberately placed the...

Weston Teruya | Artwell, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012
The Power of Two

The Power of Two

Two sisters, two cultures, two new chances at life.

Writer Anabel Mariko Stenzel

I love Japan. As a child, I loved its scenery, food and the cute toys. As an English teacher there after college, I loved its clean streets, work ethic and its...

Anabel Mariko S... | First Person, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012
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Willful Creature

Willful Creature

Asobi Seksu’s Yuki Chikudate on growing up and getting better.

Writer Priscilla Totiyapungprasert

On stage, Yuki Chikudate’s energy threatens to overwhelm her petite frame. She tosses her head in a trancelike rapture, hands dancing on the keyboard. In...

Priscilla Totiy... | Music, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012
Camp in the Camps

Camp in the Camps

Tina Takemoto is Looking for Jiro.

Looking for Jiro is a short video by San Francisco-based performance artist and writer Tina Takemoto. Takemoto combines historic footage of military propaganda and men’s bodybuilding with...

Lj Roberts | Artwell, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012
Bodies and Borders

Bodies and Borders

The work of Wafaa Yasin

Wafaa Yasin literally turned her body into a boat and set sail across the San Francisco Bay. Yasin expected to fail in sailing anywhere, but she also hoped not to drown. Born in Palestine, the San...

Michele Carlson | Artwell, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012

Our House: Online Exclusive Video

Go inside the Dang family's multigenerational home

In an Exposure photo essay in ...

Lisa Wong Macabasco | Online Exclusive, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012
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Nicole Wong | Food and Agriculture, Issue 25: Generation - Spring 2012

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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.

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