Actors of color are often offered roles that, despite their depth and complexity, ask the actors to depict some sort of trauma or oppression in order to shift the audience’s perspective or spark conversation. By putting humorous and silly stories on stage, we continue to remove the boxes put around people of color and broaden the contexts in which we see them represented on stage.
Read More"To be the tiniest character to exist in the universe is really awesome. And then to be the first ever Asian American female within this universe is so incredible," says Ally Maki, one of the new stars of "Toy Story 4."
Read MoreLin’s story has always been about more than his playing time or his performance on the court. It has been about representation and visibility for a race of people rarely recognized or seen on a basketball court, especially at the N.B.A. level.
Read MoreFor some Chinese-American restaurateurs in the mid-20th century, I think there definitely is a move towards education,” she says. But its omnipresence in Chinese American restaurants tells the story of the changing role those restaurants played in American lives, and how their proprietors used Orientalism to drive acceptance of their culture.
Read MoreThese films have given audiences an immersion into the way these themes weave across all of our diverse Asian American experiences. And they've done so, perhaps unsurprisingly, in part by using one of the most universal and accessible languages of all: food.
Read MoreLily Tung Crystal comes to the Twin Cities from San Fransisco where she co-founded and currently serves as Founding Artistic Director of Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company. She brings with her years of artistic excellence, certified trainings in leadership and communication, and a common goal to celebrate and empower the Asian American community through theater.
Read MoreGia Vang, a former TV journalist in Kansas City, Phoenix and Fresno, will become part of the NBC affiliate's "Sunrise Team" starting July 8. She is believed to be the first Hmong-American anchor in the Twin Cities market.
Read MoreThe key with many of these projects is that they are coming from Asian American creators themselves. It’s not outsiders writing about the Asian experience, or what they think the Asian experience is or should be.
Read MoreBut Pei was different. His name—not to mention his unmistakable appearance, with the enormous round glasses he always wore—seemed to have little effect, in this country, at least, on how he was viewed. He wasn’t famous because he was a good architect among Asian-American architects. He was famous because he was a great architect who happened to be Asian-American. To a young immigrant from China, this decoupling of identity was exhilarating.
Read MoreFrom a food truck peddling Hawaiian-Korean fusion dishes in Seattle to an underground Japanese speakeasy in D.C. to a Korean barbecue restaurant that focuses on home cooking in New York City, one ingredient is surprisingly constant: Spam.
Read MoreAsian-American couples don’t get to have sex in Hollywood movies. Randall Park and Ali Wong wrote “Always Be My Maybe” anyway.
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