On Diasporic Tableaux, Lonely Unicorns, and the Irrepressible Desire for...
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View ArticleHyphen Goes to 2012 Facing Race
facingrace.jpgFrom November 15-17th, Baltimore hosted the Applied Research Center's 2012 Facing Race conference. Fourteen hundred attendees filled the ballrooms of the Baltimore Hilton for three days...
View Article'Red Dawn': Farcical Premise Breeds False Sense of Threat
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View ArticleAloha, Daniel Inouye: Remembering Hawaii’s True Son
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View ArticlePolitics: 2012 Election Exposes Barriers In Muslim Political Organizing
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View ArticleDavid Phan's Suicide Sparks Grief, Anger and Call for Justice
davidage7.jpg"I had a great life but I must leave." These were the last words written by David Q. Phan, a 14-year-old Vietnamese American junior high school student from Taylorsville, Utah, before he...
View ArticleIslands in the Sand
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View ArticleLost and Found: The Legacy of the Bangladeshi Sons of New York
lost_legacies.jpgThe recent wave of immigration monopolizes the narrative of South Asians Americans. Early immigrants from East Bengal (present-day Bangladesh) built richly diverse communities and...
View ArticleImmigration Reform: Less Luck, More Sense
multicultural_society.jpgImmigration reform can happen if we can agree that luck plays a large part in allowing us to stay in the U.S., writes Lin Yang, Hyphen's political editor.read more
View ArticleFixin’ to Go Mainstream
26.politics.bobby_.jpg Bobby Jindal. Illustration by Julia Kuo. Asian Americans are on the rise in Southern politics.A look at today's Southern crop of Asian American leaders.read more
View ArticlePolitics: As Immigration Debate Looms, Advocacy Groups Gear Up for Battle
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View ArticleHow Hula Dancing Came to Arizona Prisons
delbert_223.jpgIn a Hawaiian-only prison in Arizona, getting in touch with their roots is one way inmates get by.read more
View ArticlePolitics: Ro Khanna Wants to Shake Status Quo, Starting With Fellow Democrat
ro_launch.jpgHyphen magazine sits down with Ro Khanna -- who is trying to unseat Congressman and fellow Democrat Mike Honda in 2014 -- to talk politics, campaigning, and whether challenging the AAPI...
View ArticleAAPI Groups Question Implementation of Health Care Reform
koh.jpgCommunity groups are skeptical of whether the Affordable Care Act (healthcare reform law) can resolve the information and language barriers that have stifled access to healthcare for many AAPIs...
View ArticleIraqi Refugees Sue President Bush over Losses in Iraq War
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View ArticleFeed the People, Not the Trolls: An (Incomplete) Archive of APA Women Musicians
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View ArticleNot Your Model Minority: Asian Americans and the Immigration Fight
greg.jpgAAPI advocates were among the many arrested last week in the continuing mobilizatons calling for for federal immigration reform.read more
View ArticleAAPI Activists Fast for Immigration Reform
fastforfamilies.jpgAfter 22 days, the compelling "Fast for Families" action for immigration reform garners support by the thousands. read more
View ArticleSupport HYPHEN!
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View ArticleSpotlight on Hyphen Heroine Fiona Ma, Hepatitis B Woman Warrior
fiona_ma_headshot.jpgMa is leading the fight against one of the most widespread problems to plague the Asian American community: the Hepatitis B virus.read more
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