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“There are things that I think an Asian therapist would just understand… Maybe with them I can just be a normal person.”

Baldwin Chiu and Larissa Lams "Far East Deep South" examines the history of Chinese immigrants in the American South through a personal lens.

As a salute to May's Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, the Camden Public Library’s Friday Film Club plans to watch and discuss the 2020

Growing up, Baldwin Chiu read about segregation. He thought it only affected the Black community, but as he and his family followed their Chinese American roots to the Mississippi Delta, they discovered surprising family revelations and uncovered the racially complex history of Chinese immigrants in the segregated South.

When he was growing up Chinese American, most of the films Paul Jew would watch presented stereotypi ...

How to celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month By Diti Kohli Globe Correspondent,Updated May 6, 2021, 1:09 p.m. Email to a Friend The work of Shen Wei (above) inspired "Meditations on the Power of Community," a short film commenting on his paintings. Film director Lenora Lee is hosting a Q&A about her creation in the coming weeks, during AAPI Heritage Month.Jeffrey Sturges/Courtesy Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum This past year marked a tumultuous time for the United States...

How a Chinese American family discovered their roots in Mississippi Baldwin Chiu, a Chinese American from California, knew his grandfather was buried in Mississippi. How he ended up in the Deep South, Chiu did not know. With his father and brother in tow, Chiu traveled to Mississippi to learn his family’s story. What he discovered was a little known history of Chinese immigrants in the Deep South. The family’s journey became “Far East Deep South,” a documentary directed by Chiu’s wife...

Chinese American family explores roots in 'Far East Deep South'

HomeFront: Animation sensation, IFFBoston picks, plus a voice for Sally Hemings Marie Morris © Provided by The Boston Globe Katie Mitchell, voiced by Abbi Jacobson, in a scene from "The Mitchells vs. The Machines." Welcome back to HomeFront, where May is hours away, pollen counts are climbing, and pandemic precautions are slowly easing. Until we reach herd immunity and full reopening of everything — and, frankly, even after that — plenty of us will keep taking advantage o...

Spotlighting the documentaries “The Boy from Medellín,” “Far East Deep South,” and « Unmarked. »