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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
Smithsonian Magazine has a good article about Wong Kim Ark, who fought to assure birthright citizenship for all Americans. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-fight-for-birthright-citizenship-reshaped-asian-american-families-180981866/
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
This is a video essay, with a lot of references, bringing together different ideas about representation, race swapping in portrayals, and desirability and gender. It’s pretty good. I can’t evaluate beyond that, because I haven’t studied this too much. Discussion where I found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/aznidentity/comments/1j44s67/representasian_asian_desexualization_race/ Original Post: 2023-03-10 I made a tiktok that recommended feminism…
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
These two terms came up during the discussions about the Monterey Park shooting. It was also raised in the murder of Tyre Nichols, and the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay. The following definitions are from the Canadian Race Relations Foundation:
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
This article has moved to this niche blog.
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Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
These are the sources for a few memes I created.
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
People are upset about stereotypes, and often conflate the Model Minority Myth with the stereotype that Asians are good at math. So, to “challenge” the stereotype, an Asian person will say they aren’t good at math. They misunderstand the point of the MMM stereotype.
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WSJ Election-Hype Poll about Perceptions of Prejudice Excluded Asians
Every once in a while, I get upset by something AWA puts up, especially anything that discourages Asian American participation in politics. This time, it was a poll about how the two parties differ in who they think suffers discrimination.
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Fascism Videos (Explaining It)
I’m going to accumulate videos explaining this midcentury political movement that’s getting a resurgence today.
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
This video’s made the rounds, and I felt compelled to write some about it. It’s not a great panel, but it’s good that the video was made and put out there for a general audience that might not be too familiar with the current debate/infighting.
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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Making a Graduated Cylinder Measuring Cup from a Jar
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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Workstyles and Productivity
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February Links
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Turn Audio Links into inline audio players
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Inventing Black and White
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Chili History
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Indigenous Identity Fraud; Zionist Cultural Theft; Can the subaltern speak?
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Update for April 29, 2019
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Protected: Getting Up in AI Models
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Israel General Strike; IDF Shoots FilAm “Amado Sison”; Labor Zionism and South African white workers
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ACP and MAGA Communism
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Adding Google OAuth Authentication to the Symfony HWI OAuth Bundle
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 1
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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Israel Arms Embargo Popularity; Israel Collapse; Trans Dehumanization; Local Lists
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Async PHP Libraries and Frameworks
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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Links to MLK Speeches and Writings
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Directory Structure Checking Script
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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Polls; Macron Coup?; ICE Detainees Strike; Technofeudalism
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The Hose Bibb Flat Washer Conspiracy (000 15/32″ or 11mm)
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MS Access: VBA CRC32 Function
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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My Home Backup System (Triple Backups)
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Recent Studies Look for Actual Spread of SARS-CoV-2 the COVID-19 Virus
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Umeboshi and Maesil Rot
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Gone Missing from the Keyboard
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How is that Asian students both international and Asian Americans are so good in college?