“When they cast me as Eddie, they did it in part because in a lot of ways, we’re alike. I mean, it’s not just that we kind of look alike: We say what’s on our minds and we do what we feel like we gotta do, and we both really love food.”
The president alone may not rewrite immigration laws—but importantly, he or she does have a lot of latitude to determine how federal agencies ought to prioritize their enforcement of existing laws.
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San Francisco’s South of Market area is known for swank tech-company offices, gleaming luxury apartments, a baseball park with breathtaking views of the bay. Few know that it was also home to one of the country’s earliest Filipino communities.
“Finally, I decided, I am not a doctor. I am going into my profession, which was dance.”
“I am so proud to be a part of this show, a show that follows the story of an Asian American family. I’m also extremely proud to represent an Asian American girl on television.”
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“I confess to sharing that feeling of being slighted in seeing my own traditional dishes being ‘explained’ by an ‘outsider.'” – Andrew Lam
Historian K. Scott Wong explains what it means to him to be a descendant of a paper son and how the legacy of the Chinese Exclusion Act is a core part of his identity.
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Besides eczema being a real affliction for millions of people, the repeated focus on this character’s health issues seemed to be trying to address deeper issues about respectability and professionalism in the legal profession and the criminal justice system, and even how we view the “other.”
Congresswoman Judy Chu shares why she thinks it is important to have more accurate educational curricula about the Chinese Exclusion Act.