Archive as Memorial gathers oral histories, artifacts, art installations, and other documents of AAPI experiences during the pandemic.
Asian American
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The Collective Ethos at the Heart of Asian-American Activism
Voice a Wild Dream dismantles the idea that activism is driven by individual charismatic figures; in reality, social change is possible because many hands come together.
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Anna May Wong Becomes the First Asian American on US Currency
Regarded as Hollywood’s first Chinese American movie star, Wong faced racism and discrimination during her career.
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At Queens’s Noguchi Museum, Banners by Asian Artists Address Racism
Chemin Hsiao, winner of the museum’s Open Call for Artist Banners, and runners-up Woomin Kim and Mo Kong discuss their designs with Hyperallergic.
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How a Jeopardy! Champ’s Play to Become a Feminist Public Intellectual Crashed
The new documentary Who is Arthur Chu? is a cautionary tale about the dangers of getting too online.
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Mixing Racial Messages
Starting with its title, the group exhibition War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art at Seattle’s Wing Luke museum asks a provocative question: how do those seen by Americans as products of either colonial domination or subversive desire move past those categories?
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The Kamikaze, The Temptress, The Manipulator, The Guru and Other Asian-American Stereotypes
Marvels & Monsters and Alt.Comics, the current tag team exhibition at Museum of Chinese in America, offers a one-two punch that unmasks the American comic book industry’s often conflicted relationship with Asians and Asian-Americans.
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A Billion Hits and Counting: Asian Americans and YouTube
Young Asian Americans dominate a great swath of the messy territory called YouTube, holding their own against the well-funded and famous. This fact makes two major points: there is a great pool of Asian Americans who, against the grain of “model minority” professionalism, need an outlet for humor and creative expression. Perhaps more importantly, these numbers prove the existence of a huge audience, largely Asian American, who want to see the experiences and talents of Asian people in popular media.