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Where are Asian Americans in the Immigration Debate?

... lettuce, cleaning hotel rooms, mowing lawns, or running a store in a rough neighborhood. In other cases, he has exceptional skills – ... wants to keep immigrants in or out, there is a need to step back and examine the larger picture of undocumented immigration. Perhaps, this ...

hyphen-migration - 05/18/2015 - 5:16pm - 8 comments

The Hyphenite's Social Calendar: Fox and Jewel, Sulu DC

... gravel after most of the remains were exhumed and shipped back to China, via Hong Kong, in two major disinterments: 1928 and 1949. ... Book signing with CYJO and KYOPO Participants in the Museum Store follows after panel discussion. More info on the Kyopo Project on the ...

hyphen-migration - 09/09/2015 - 4:10pm - 0 comments

AUGUST 2020 NONFICTION: WITCHCRAFT

... would say to avoid one such sister commenting behind her back, “Hmm, that woman didn’t ask about me?” “Of course! And you ... the same idyllic image on a cardboard box at the grocery store the next day and asked my mother to purchase it. Without any ...

Grace Lee - 08/18/2020 - 2:11pm - 0 comments

The Problem With Crash

... by Hollywood.2) I'm tired of Hollywood taking a step back from actually having less than perfect plot turns, and while I can give ... Persians appreciated being typecast running a convenience store and that they are the bad guys with the guns. Yes, the Asian role was ...

hyphen-migration - 05/18/2015 - 5:16pm - 33 comments

JUNE NONFICTION: Have You Ever Seen an Electric Torch?

... sense of reprieve even if it’s only to take a longer road back to where you should really be. It was no surprise that time was moving ... the watch he’d bought me a few days previously at a Wako store. I thanked him again for the gift before stepping back and letting my ...

Amy Zhang - 06/17/2018 - 12:00pm - 0 comments

JANUARY 2021 NONFICTION: NO MATTER THE LANGUAGE

... from an opinionated co-worker to an arrogant convenience store cashier. Even now, my mouth will not cooperate when I try to speak ... a slight shift. Upon hearing my accent, they would hold back, not knowing if I could relate to them or comprehend their words. ...

Grace Lee - 01/07/2021 - 7:06pm - 0 comments

Hyphen TV: Are You Playing Angry Birds?

... Rs and Ls. All that was needed was a little eye pull-back action to complete the re-fried elementary school taunt level of comedy: ... was the only chef who was truly resourceful in the Target store they had to work in, MacGyvering a double-cooker for his grilled cheese ...

hyphen-migration - 05/18/2015 - 5:14pm - 4 comments

On Asian American Dating

... Asian women are selfish. They consistently put their own issues and desires over anything else while it seems other ethnic women are ... to join them. The moment they get bored of you, you swim back and say "We Asian girls always supported you Asian men! You guys rock!" ... it's ok for blacks to get followed around in the store? Asians sure do. Why? It's because they're not the ones being ...

hyphen-migration - 05/18/2015 - 5:13pm - 194 comments

CON-VERSE-SATIONS

... and being inventive with language, experimenting with moving back and forth between English and other languages. Cathy Park Hong is somebody ... in the collection attests to the vast possibilities in store. Rose (BOA Editions) by Li-Young Lee In Lee’s ...

hyphen-migration - 09/13/2015 - 10:20pm - 1 comment

Teased Kids in Grade School? You Have a Future in Radio!

... He's just kidding around people. Lets all take a step back and stop taking ourselves so seriously. What bad will become of his ... being Asian. Walking home from work, leaving the grocery store, these fathers/brothers/sons/husbands were innocent Americans going about ...

hyphen-migration - 05/18/2015 - 5:16pm - 47 comments