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The Inadequacy of the Term “Asian American” Details MEDIA WATCH-Sarath Suong has often felt like the term “Asian American” doesn’t really serve him. “I was told that I am Asian American when we came here,” says Suong, a Cambodian refugee who immigrated to the US as a child. “But I faced a lot of colorism, a lot of classism, and not a lot of understanding about who Southeast Asians are and how we fit into the Asian American context.” Suong and his family were among tens of thousands of refugees who fled during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, eventually settling in the Boston area. When he arrived in the US, he struggled to find where exactly he fit in a country where everyone from teachers to neighbors made him feel unwanted. ....
May 5, 2021 Paul Ong, director of UCLA’s Center for Neighborhood Knowledge, was featured by the American Planning Association in a tribute to Asian American and Pacific Islander leaders who have shaped the nation’s history and communities. Ong, who is a research professor in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, was one of 12 planners, architects, historians and community organizers who have “influenced our built environment, fought for historical and cultural preservation, and championed social justice to help make great communities for all,” the association’s Planning magazine said. He joins a list including modernist architect I.M. Pei, statesman Norman Mineta, Vietnam Veterans Memorial designer Maya Lin and racial justice attorney Manjusha Kulkarni, who co-founded the hate crime reporting center Stop AAPI Hate. ....
TORONTO Community leaders from six Canadian cities are calling for federal support to increase security and promote tourism in order to help revitalize hard-hit Chinatowns across the country. So organizers say addressing this has to be a national priority. âWe need to support our Chinatowns. We need to support our workers [and] our small businesses in the community,â Justin Kong, executive director of Chinese Canadian National Council â Toronto Chapter, told CTVâs Your Morning on Thursday. He called for âan approach that centres local communities and marginalized people who live in our neighbourhoods.â Kong and his group are among community leaders from Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver who are banding together in an effort being spearheaded by the Center for Research-Action on Race Relations. ....
Last week, San Diego airport bartender Anita Burbage got the call she’d been waiting months to hear – that it was time to go back to work. Burbage, 56, who came to the United States in 1991 from her native Philippines, didn’t mind that she’d be instead working as a server, and for just two days a week. After spending most of the past year unemployed, the Chula Vista, California, resident was grateful to be working again. She and her hospitality worker colleagues have survived the year in part because of regular Zoom chats organized by their union in which they share their fears: That they won’t be able to make rent. That they’ll get COVID. Or for her fellow Filipino colleagues, that they’ll be assaulted – simply because they’re Asian. ....
Hidden side of Asian-American immigration story 2 hours ago Don Lee, Tribune News Service It wasn’t until after the Atlanta shootings last month that members of Hyun Jung Grant’s family understood she worked in a massage parlour, rather than a cosmetic shop, as the South Korean immigrant had told her children. The predominant image in America of immigrants from Korea, China, India and other Asian countries is one of highly skilled, driven workers, often dominating technical, medical and other demanding fields, and their children, who seem to fill the top ranks of prestigious US schools. But Grant and five other Korean and Chinese women killed in the attack revealed a less recognised and growing segment of the Asian-American immigration story one that has been particularly hard hit by the pandemic. ....