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The Inadequacy of the Term “Asian American” Sarath Suong has often felt like the term “Asian American” doesn’t really serve him. A Cambodian refugee who immigrated to the US as a child, Suong prefers to identify as Southeast Asian instead. “I was told that I am Asian American when we came here,” he says. “But I faced a lot of colorism, a lot of classism, and not a lot of understanding about who Southeast Asians are and how we fit into the Asian American context.” Suong’s fam...

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Do I count as ‘Asian American’? What the history behind the term taught me TODAY 5/1/2021 Maura Hohman During Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, TODAY is sharing the community’s history, pain, joy and what’s next for the AAPI movement. We will be publishing personal essays, stories, videos and specials throughout the entire month of May. When I saw the photos of the six Asian American women who died in the Atlanta spa shootings in May, I saw my mother, my grandmoth...

The Inadequacy of the Term “Asian American” Details MEDIA WATCH-Sarath Suong has often felt like the term “Asian American” doesn’t really serve him. “I was told that I am Asian American when we came here,” says Suong, a Cambodian refugee who immigrated to the US as a child. “But I faced a lot of colorism, a lot of classism, and not a lot of understanding about who Southeast Asians are and how we fit into the Asian American context.” Suong and his fa...

Sarath Suong has often felt like the term “Asian American” doesn’t really serve him. “I was told that I am Asian American when we came here,” says Suong, a Cambodian refugee who immigrated to the US as a child. “But I faced a lot of colorism, a lot of classism, and not a lot of understanding about who Southeast Asians are and how we fit into the Asian American context.” Suong and his family were among tens of thousands of refugees who fled during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia...

PUBLISHED: 04/22/2021 By: Thao-Vy Duong Coined in 1968 by Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee, the term “Asian American” is a marker of collectivism. Its inception is inseparable from the founding of the Asian American Political Alliance, which aimed to unite Asian American voices. Prior to the invention of this phrase, Asian Americans were simply identified by their ethnic subgroup or broadly by obtuse and racist terms. The organization of various subgroups under the banner of “Asian American” w...

Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month on HRN Aired: Wednesday, April 21st 2021 SHARE By: Thao-Vy Duong Coined in 1968 by Yuji Ichioka and Emma Gee, the term “Asian American” is a marker of collectivism. Its inception is inseparable from the founding of the Asian American Political Alliance, which aimed to unite Asian American voices. Prior to the invention of this phrase, Asian Americans were simply identified by their ethnic subgroup or broadly by obtuse and racist terms. The organiza...

  People participate in a protest to demand an end to anti-Asian violence in New York City on April 4, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] Hate crimes against Asians in the United States reportedly increased by 150 percent in 2020 and have escalated this year. To fight hate crimes as a minority group that accounts for 6.5 percent of the US population, Asian American communities should create a united and visible front that must be articulate but not provocative. It is true that the current US administr...

The power and the perils of an Asian American political awakening The surge in hate crimes is feeding a new spirit of solidarity. But it’s also renewing a longstanding question for the movement: How do disparate sets of people unite without flattening their substantial differences? By Noah Y. KimUpdated April 2, 2021, 3:05 a.m. Email to a Friend Bystanders watch as demonstrators march against anti-Asian violence in New York City on March 27.Stephanie Keith/Getty An odd thing about the ter...