Jeff Yang and Phil Yu present an unfiltered conversation about what's happening in Asian America. What's up, podcast listeners? We've got another episode of our podcast They Call Us Bruce. (Almost) each week, my good friend, writer/columnist Jeff Yang and I host an unfiltered conversation about what's happening in Asian America, with a strong focus […]

You might think that a heavily Asian American area like the San Francisco Bay Area would be immune to coronavirus related racial harassment, but these days, the large Asian American population means a lot more targets to hate.  KGO, a local Bay Area TV station, has aired a special town hall called “Race and Coronavirus: […]

Presented by Act To Change, Streaming Friday, April 17 at 1:00pm ET With more than 100 cases of Coronavirus-related discrimination being reported on a daily basis, the need for the Asian American community to fight back against anti-Asian racism is now stronger than ever. The lack of Asian American inclusion in mainstream media and school […]

Check out my colleague (and wife) Miliann Kang’s post titled “Getting the American Dirt on the Tiger Mother – or What Asian Americans Can Learn From Latinx Writers about Challenging Misrepresentation” at Tropics of Meta in which she relates the recent controversy about the novel American Dirt to the Tiger Mother episode involving Amy Chua […]

When I saw an e-mail called titled “The Darkness Has Not Overcome It” this morning, I thought to myself, “some Players Tribune article, maybe I’ll read it later.”  I was surprised when I did read it later after seeing some news about Jeremy Lin and the coronavirus and wanting to confirm where that news came […]

And Other Things to Know From Angry Asian America. Stabbing of Asian American Family Was a Virus-Fueled Hate CrimeConfirming what everybody pretty much suspected when this attack was reported last month, the vicious stabbing of an Asian American family — including a 2-year-old girl –at a Sam’s Club in Texas earlier this month has been […]

And Other Things to Know From Angry Asian America. Asian Woman Suffers Burns in Acid AttackIn Brooklyn, an Asian woman suffered severe burns across her body when someone sneaked up on her outside her home and splashed her with a caustic substance. The attack took place on Sunday night in the Sunset Park neighborhood. Surveillance […]

And Other Things to Know From Angry Asian America. Andrew Yang Says Asians Need To Show ‘American-ness’ To Avoid RacismIn a Washington Post op-ed published Wednesday, former presidential candidate Andrew Yang attempted to address the increasing incidents of harassment and racism against Asians amid the coronavirus pandemic, encouraging Asian Americans to “embrace and show our […]