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Northam announces 5 new highway markers highlighting Asian American Pacific Islander history in Virginia Storyblocks By: Web Staff and last updated 2021-08-03 20:55:04-04 RICHMOND, Va. -- Governor Ralph Northam announced five new state historical highway markers that highlight topics of significance to Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) history in the Commonwealth. These markers were submitted by Virginia students through the inaugural AAPI Heritage Month Historical Marker Contest. “Throughout history, Asian American and Pacific Islander communities have made signif...

The former Lewis House has been renamed to honor the first international student to earn a bachelor's degree from UVA, W.W. Yen, who went on to become premier of China. (Photo by Sanjay Suchak, University Communications) To recount the history of Asians at UVA, we must keep in mind this constant-yet-shifting triangulation of Asians between Black and white. While this history is of particular interest to UVA’s current Asian American students, staff and faculty, it is also unclear whether these early Asian students would be legible as Asian American by today’s standards, since students like...