Where I grew up, if someone said “hold my coat,” that meant a fight was about to break out. It didn’t matter the time or place those three words let everyone know exactly what was happening so they could govern themselves accordingly. As the November elections near, a political fight is raging between conservatives […]
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When I grew up, the media offered very few Asian-American role models to look up to; but when the occasional Asian girl frequented a couple minutes of TV or pages of a book, the character would exude racial stereotypes.
Take the short-lived (2007-14) American Girl Doll Ivy Ling, the white girl’s best friend who loves STEM and strives to satisfy her parent’s weighty ambitions. Consider the darling of Harry Potter’s “yellow fever”, Cho Chang, because a Chinese girl can only be stick-thin, belong to Ravenclaw, and possess an alliterative, monosyllabic name. Or even ponder Lane Kim from