Tag: asian-americans

Yellow Power

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 7, 2017

This Clio Chang essay on a radical Asian-American newspaper she ran across is a good reminder that the history of Asian-America is not one of the modern stereotypes of “the good immigrants who assimilate” or whatever racist stereotype Andrew Sullivan wants to deploy to compare them to other racial minorities. It’s also a history of […]

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This Day in Labor History: March 24, 1934

By Erik Loomis

On March 24, 2017

On March 24, 1934, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Tydings-McDuffie Act. Better known as the Philippine Independence Act, Tydings-McDuffie initially sounds like a victory for anti-colon

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This Day in Labor History: February 11, 1903

By Erik Loomis

On February 11, 2017

On February 11, 1903, the Japanese-Mexican Labor Association formed to build racial solidarity among workers against sugar beet farmers near Oxnard, California. This was the first major cross-racial,

This Day in Labor History: January 20, 1920

By Erik Loomis

In General

On January 20, 2017

On January 20, 1920, Filipino sugar workers on Oahu, Hawaii, went on strike to demand higher pay. Japanese workers soon joined them and this multiracial strike led to minimal victory for workers and, even rarer, a cross-racial strike with significant solidarity that helped create that victory. Hawaii became a target of U.S. imperialism from almost […]

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How Asian-Americans Became Democrats

By Erik Loomis

On July 26, 2016

Pretty remarkable shift among Asian-American voting patterns. If post-1965 immigrants did indeed move the Asian American community to the right, the group’s leftward shift since 1992 is all the more

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Book Review: Robert Ji-Song Ku, Martin F. Manalansan, and Anita Mannur, eds., Eating Asian America: A Food Studies Reader

By Erik Loomis

On December 29, 2015

The twenty essays that make up Eating Asian America demonstrate both the multiple approaches to food studies in an era where that field has exploded and how food is a wonderful window into the complex

This Day in Labor History: May 10, 1869

By Erik Loomis

In General

On May 10, 2014

On May 10, 1869, the Transcontinental Railroad was completed when the Central Pacific and Union Pacific lines met at Promontory Point, Utah. The railroad itself was key to the growth of the American nation after the Civil War, but it came at a terrible cost to workers, particularly the Chinese for the Central Pacific. Examining […]