http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines Blog on contemporary news, issues, and current events related to Asian Americans and American racial/ethnic relations Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:40:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You might be interested to read the following posts from Novembers of years past: 2008: 14 Exit Poll Statistics About Obama’s VictoryAnalyzing exit poll data and voting patterns about Barack Obama's election victory by race, ethnicity, and other social factors. 2007: New ... http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines/2009/11/posts-from-years-past-november/ Yesterday was Election Day and there were many Asian American candidates running for office throughout the country. For those who are curious, APAs for Progress has a summary of how individual Asian American candidates did in their particular contests. ... http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines/2009/11/john-liu-asian-american-politician-on-the-rise/ As many news organizations have been reporting, Vietnamese Americans in San Jose, CA are blasting the police department there for several incidents of police brutality, the latest one happening last month in which officers were videoed beating a young Vietnamese ... http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines/2009/11/incidents-anti-vietnamese-police-brutality-san-jose/ As part of this blog's mission of making academic research and data more easily accessible, understandable, and applicable to a wider audience and to practical, everyday social issues, I highlight new sociological books about Asian Americans and other racial/ethnic groups ... http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines/2009/10/new-books-arab-muslim-americans/ Ever since World War II, the Asian-Pacific political and military landscape has been pretty stable from the U.S.'s point of view -- Japan has been the U.S.'s staunch ally while China looms as possible threat and enemy to the U.S. ... http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines/2009/10/role-reversal-china-japan-relations-with-us-changing/ I previously wrote about data showing that in many ways, racial minorities are hurt more than Whites by the current economic recession, largely because in many occupations and industries, people of color are overrepresented among those who are recently hired, ... http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines/2009/10/struggles-opportunities-immigrant-minority-businesses/ Here are some more announcements and links out that have come my way relating to Asians or Asian Americans. As always, links to other sites are provided for informational purposes and do not necessarily imply an endorsement of their ... http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines/2009/10/miscellaneous-links-17/ This is a little late, but I only recently found out that apparently, October 1 was "China's National Day" in the state of Georgia: Governor Sonny Perdue of the US state of Georgia has proclaimed October 1, 2009 as "China's National ... http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines/2009/10/georgia-celebrates-chinas-national-day/ About a year and a half ago, I wrote about how China and India were trying to irn out some geographic, political, and economic differences as they both continue their emergence as 21st century superpowers. While relations between the ... http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines/2009/10/china-india-rivalry-heating-up/ Here is an announcement from my colleagues at the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA: UCLA's "U.S./China Media Brief" Commemorates New Era of U.S.-China Relations On the People's Republic of China 60th anniversary year (1949-2009) and on the eve of President Obama's ... http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines/2009/10/online-guide-to-u-s-china-relations/ Earlier this week, musician, actor, and community activist Harry Connick Jr. was a guest judge on the Australian talent show Hey Hey It's Saturday. One of the acts was a skit featuring a group of White men wearing blackface ... http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines/2009/10/harry-connick-blackface-recognizing-white-privilege/ Most people know the Hummer line of sport utility vehicles as embodying a very "in-your-face" image of conspicuous materialism and conservative, anti-environmentalist values. Hummers have been the bane of environmentalists for a while, with many being vandalized through the ... http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines/2009/10/hummer-sold-to-chinese-what-will-americans-do-now/