Asian-Americans

Zohran Mamdani’s last Name reflects Centuries of intercontinental Trade, Migration and cultural Exchange

By Iqbal Akhtar, Florida International University (The Conversation) – When Zohran Mamdani announced his candidacy for mayor of New York City, political observers noted his progressive platform and legislative record. But understanding the Democratic candidate’s background requires examining the rich cultural tapestry woven into his very surname: Mamdani. He takes the name from his father, […]

Asian-Americans

After Mamdani Victory, Progressives Call for Primary Challenges to Democratic Establishment

Common Dreams

“The establishment has never been more weak than they are now,” one advocate told potential progressive candidates. “You need to run.” By Julia Conley | – ( Commondreams.org ) — New York state Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani’s victory over disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary was quickly dismissed by some […]

Asian-Americans

Deadly Wildfires burn across Maui – it’s a Reminder of the growing Risk to Communities that once seemed Safe

The Conversation

By Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University | – (The Conversation) – Thousands of people were evacuated along Maui’s popular west coast on Aug. 8 and 9, 2023, as wildfires spread through buildings and hillsides, whipped by strong winds from Hurricane Dora. Much of Lahaina, Hawaii, a tourist town of about 13,000 residents that was once […]

Asian-Americans

Chinese Immigrants sue over New DeSantis Law in Florida Barring them from Buying Homes or Land

Florida Phoenix

By: Mitch Perry – Chinese citizens who live and work in Florida have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a law recently signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis restricting any “foreign principal” from China or six other “countries of concern” from purchasing property in the state. The suit contends that the law, set to […]

Asian-Americans

Ms. Marvel: Can a 16-year-old Marvel Superhero Change the Image of Islam in America?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Marvel Cinematic Universe streaming superhero television show, Ms. Marvel dropped on Disney+ this week, and it is a revolution in the representation of Muslim Americans on television. The story revolves around a Pakistani-American 16-year-old girl from Jersey City who resents her strict and protective parents and wants to attend […]

Asian-Americans

How the Media Sugar-coats Anti-Chinese Racism

Martin Powers

Ann Arbor (Special to Informed Comment) – Recently the Brookings Institute held a panel on “The national security implications of anti-Asian racism.” Noting that Asian peoples worldwide tend to link U.S. China policy with anti-Asian violence, Brookings scholars explained how those policies can weaken U.S. influence abroad. But those views are not mainstream. In the […]

African-Americans

Republican Mainstreaming of White Supremacy Fuels Extremist Violence like the Racist Massacre in Buffalo

Dan Dinello

Chicago (Special to Informed Comment) – “All race politics is bad, all race politics is poison — it erases people, it dehumanizes them. Race politics always makes us hate each other. Race politics always leads to violence and death,” said Fox News’ white supremacist Tucker Carlson on his first broadcast after the Buffalo massacre. It […]

African-Americans

Asians, other Minorities fear Attacks because of Race, Survey finds

Cronkite News Arizona PBS

By Breanna Isbell | – ( Cronkite News ) – PHOENIX – One in four Asian households in the U.S. report fearing physical attacks and threats because of their race, according to a recent survey by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The survey, taken Aug. 2 […]

Asian-Americans

Top 5 Things Wrong with the Mainstreamed Racist Republican “Replacement Theory”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Dan Primack and Russell Contreras at Axios survey the ways in which the anti-Semitic, white supremacist “replacement theory” is being mainstreamed in the Republican Party. I pointed out in April that Tucker Carlson’s “White Power Hour” on Fox (Joy Reid’s term) is full of contradictions on replacement theory, and that […]