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KERA News Korean American adoptee Stephanie Drenka, 35, jots down some reading notes while studying the history of racism against Asian Americans in the U.S. I m in a weird space where I studied this. Now, that people are listening, I don t want to waste that time, said Drenka.
Beauty standards for women of Asian descent have long been tied to racism and sexualization. Stephanie Drenka was adopted from Korea and has experienced this first hand. Now, it s her mission to create safe spaces for women to share their experiences.
Dallas resident Stephanie Drenka remembers being 13-years-old during the early stages of the internet when AOL chat rooms were the cool place teenagers would socialize.
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Anti- Asian violence and rhetoric have increased since the start of the pandemic. As part of our ongoing series on racism and equity on The Point, we look at the history of racism against those Asian descent, and what the last year has been like for Asian Americans. We also hear stories from some of our neighbors about what they experience in the age of COVID.
Guests on the program are as follows:
Paul Watanabe, Director of the Institute for Asian American Studies at UMass Boston.
Khanh Dinh, Professor of Psychology at UMASS Lowell
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Since mid-March, Adam Habib, the new director of SOAS, University of London, has been on leave while under investigation “in the context of anti-Blackness as a structural issue in SOAS.” SOAS launched the investigation after Habib, a South African man of Indian descent, casually used an anti-Black racial slur during a student meeting in response to a question about accountability for SOAS professors who use the term in class.
After being criticized for his own repetition of the term, Habib doubled down, citing his identity as an African man and invoking his history as a former anti-Apartheid activist in South Africa. Yet Habib’s response belies his checkered past of weaponizing identity politics for repressive means. During his tenure as the Vice-Chancellor at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in South Africa, he frequently invoked his status as an ant
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