Who Gets to Be American?
Remember Sebastien De La Cruz? He’s that 11 year old Mexican American singer who performed the National Anthem to open game 3 of the NBA final in a traditional mariachi outfit. Here’s his picture. Cute...
View ArticleStill Dreaming About Jobs and Freedom
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is probably best remembered today for Martin Luther King, Jr’s march address, “I Have A Dream.” That speech, along with dramatic media accounts of black...
View ArticleThree Things Asian Americans Owe to the Civil Rights Movement
The 28th of August marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, one of the great turning points of the black Civil Rights Movement. The anniversary got me thinking, what...
View ArticleOn Being Asian Girlz (and Boys)
The controversy regarding Day Above Ground’s new song and video Asian Girlz has turned them into an internet sensation. Sigh. The video and song are based in the worst kind of juvenile, exploitative,...
View ArticleThe Exploitation of Asian Girlz
By now I’m sure you’ve heard about the controversy concerning the Day Above Ground video Asian Girlz. In response to an avalanche of protest, the band took the video down, though only after announcing...
View ArticleWhere I Come From
White supremacy works best when we’re isolated from each other. When I ask people where their politics come from, it’s because I’m hoping to find something in common, those places of overlap in how...
View ArticleWhen No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
In Philadelphia, restaurateur Joe Groh experienced a 10 percent drop in business in June and another 15 percent drop in July when he changed the name of his restaurant to Joe’s Steakhouse + Soda Shop....
View ArticleCan We See Through Race?
The book Seeing Through Race: A Reinterpretation of Civil Rights Photography, by Martin A. Berger explores the dual role of Civil Rights Movement photojournalism in promoting and limiting the...
View ArticleRacism is Like Cell Phones
I might’ve become one of those people who buy into the whitewashing hype that race no longer matters in America. Having grown up in the environment in which I did, if I ever commented on racism,...
View ArticleSome Of My Best Friends Are…
FYI, that’s not a picture of my family. It’s a picture that I cut and pasted off the site Stuff White People Like that seemed appropriate given the following bit of news. A recent Reuter‘s report...
View ArticleWhy Are Asians So Racist?
I get asked that question and various riffs on it like “why do Asians hate black people?” and “why do Asians only stick with other Asians?” all the time. While these questions may seem rude, I take...
View ArticleChangeLab Workshops at the 2013 AAAS Conference
ChangeLab has two exciting sessions at the Association for Asian American Studies Conference that you won’t want to miss! First, our very own Soya Jung and Scot Nakagawa will present findings from...
View ArticleMarriage Equality, Viral Posts, Site Crashes, & Democracy Now
While the Supreme Court considered 2 marriage equality cases this week, senior ChangeLab partner Scot Nakagawa wrote up his thoughts for RaceFiles in a post that quickly went viral and crashed our...
View ArticlePast, Present & Future of Multiracial Solidarity
On May 11, OneAmerica and ChangeLab are co-hosting an exciting discussion about multiracial solidarity in Seattle. This exciting intergenerational dialogue will feature: Soya Jung, senior partner at...
View ArticleFor our Portugese-speaking readers
Globo News, sort of like the CNN or MSNBC of Brazil, ran a story on marriage equality featuring interviews with U.S. residents, and they also asked ChangeLab’s Scot Nakagawa to weigh in. See the full...
View ArticleNorth Puget Sound Conference on Race
Soya Jung, ChangeLab senior partner, will be the keynote speaker for the 2nd Annual North Puget Sound Conference on Race on April 27. This year’s theme for the conference is Building Inclusive...
View ArticleSojourner Truth Radio
Soya Jung, senior ChangeLab partner talked about our new report and our research on Asian Americans and the racial justice movement this morning on Sojourner Truth Radio. If you missed the show this...
View ArticleReporting from the Association of Asian American Studies Conference
ChangeLab hosted two complimentary sessions at the recent Association of Asian American Studies Conference in Seattle and both were highly successful. It’s encouraging and inspiring that there are...
View ArticleNew ChangeLab Report: The Importance of Asian Americans?
Photo credit: Vyreak Sovann We know two things for a fact: Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial group in the United States, and we overwhelmingly voted in support of Obama in 2012. But do...
View ArticleOut and About with ChangeLab
For folks in the Puget Sound area, come out and join us at several upcoming events! On May 4, Wing Luke Museum is showing the documentary, One Generation’s Time: The Legacy of Silme Domingo &...
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