Tweets: Sikh gurdwara shooting in Wisconsin
On Sunday, white supremacist Wade M. Page walked into services at a Sikh gurdwara in Wisconsin and opened fire, killing six and injuring three. He was eventually shot dead by police. Many turned to...
View ArticleBlacks, Latinos, and the push to learn Chinese
Over at my academic page I’ve written about racialized language ideology and a new mandate in the US state of Georgia to have all students learn Chinese. Update 9/11/12: I have reposted the text here....
View ArticleBeing an Asian woman in South America
My friend Miyuki Baker (“a queer, multi-racial/lingual female mixed-media artist”) has been traveling around South America as part of her year on the Watson Fellowship. She made a sketched blog post...
View ArticleGuest post: why Australia needs an Asian Australian magazine
The Plaid Bag Connection’s second guest post ever (see the first here) comes from Hoa Pham, one of the editors of Peril, an Asian Australian arts and culture magazine. Hoa is an award-winning author of...
View Article“Welcome to the Great Mall of China”
There’s quite a furor over in Australia over a segment on television news program A Current Affair that claimed that a Sydney-area shopping center was kicking out “Australian” shops to make way for...
View ArticleThis week’s blog links: Pho 99, fatty flavor, racism, and the “Desh”
Pho 99: rapping about pho culture in South Seattle – diaCRITICS I have often complained that the bowl of phở has become an all too easy shortcut to authenticate the “Vietnamese-ness” in the artistic...
View ArticleProblematic bubble tea advertising and everyday racism in Germany
Taipei-based German journalist Klaus Bardenhagen wrote a new post on his German-language blog about the McDonald’s bubble tea controversy from earlier this year. I’m mentioned near the middle of the...
View ArticleDesi connections in the US and Canada
Two very sad news articles involving South Asians in the US and Canada caught my attention this evening. A woman in New York City allegedly pushed an Indian immigrant man off of a train platform and...
View ArticleFlat3 – the Kiwi Asian Awkward Black Girl?
Angry Asian Man just posted about Flat3, a new webseries about three young New Zealand Chinese women living together after university. They’re all struggling to find their way in life, and are...
View ArticleSociological Images
American sociologists have been reading Sociological Images for years now, but I think it’s about time for this blog to go big worldwide. The blog, run by a group of US academics, offers sociological...
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