May 17, 2021
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Queer people are six times as likely than the general population to be stopped by police, according to a new study, which provides evidence to back up the long-held belief that the community is overpoliced. Researchers at the Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, looked at data from the Generations Study a long-term study of three generations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer people and the Police Public Contact Survey. The data did not include transgender people, but the Williams Institute noted that trans folks, especially women of color, often have negative experiences with police.
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California public colleges and universities will receive a massive funding boost to expand affordable student housing, repair aging facilities, better train students for state workforce needs and shift Humboldt State to a technology focus under the budget proposal unveiled Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The state’s unexpected $75-billion surplus allowed Newsom to restore steep cuts imposed last year as the COVID-19 pandemic battered the economy and to invest a record-setting $48.7 billion in the University of California, California State University, California Community Colleges and the California Student Aid Commission. That amounts to a 5% increase in base ongoing general funds for UC and Cal State, Newsom said.
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 family were among tens of thousands of refugees who fled during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, eventually settling in the Boston area. When he arrived in the US, he struggled to find where exactly he fit in a country where everyone from teachers to neighbors made him feel unwanted.
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Events that have shaped the history of Asian Americans include the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, the Philippine American War and the Vietnam War. Cheryl Cheng |
May 6, 2021
Since last spring, when former President Trump began referring to the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus” and “kung flu,” there has been an alarming increase of anti-Asian violence. Hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have increased 169% in the first quarter of 2021, compared to the same time period in 2020, and about 3,800 hate incidents have been reported over the last year. In March, a man targeted three Atlanta-area massage parlors and killed six women of Asian descent.
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, eventually settling in the Boston area. When he arrived in the US, he struggled to find where exactly he fit in a country where everyone from teachers to neighbors made him feel unwanted.