Art & Culture

Books

The Snake Dance of Asian American Activism
Book Review: James Yee's For God and Country
Why Joy Luck Club Brings Me Misery
Book Review: Legacy to Liberation, Politics and Culture of Revolutionary Asian Pacific America
Book Review: The Mistress of Spices
Book Review: Revolution in the Air
Book Review: Sweatshop Warriors
Book Review: Ten Thousand Sorrows
Book Review: Snow Falling on Cedars

General

Legacies of War Opens Window on U.S. War on Innocents
Desperate Housewives - Desperately Needs Pointers from the Filipino American Community
Post-Modernist Youth in War, Hip-Hop, and Radical Movement
AWAKENING: A New Zine for Queer Female Vietnamese
Art & Social Justice: "Still Present Pasts"
The Fall of Miss Saigon
Knowing the Forgotten Korean War: Still Present Pasts
"Asian American Idol" in Last Comic Standing and Fame
API Power on the Radio!
The NCRR sends delegation to vist Japanese-Cubans for Obon festival

Games

New "Vietcong" Game Targets "Gooks"
PC Game Review: Tropico: Which path will you take, the socialist road or the capitalist road?
Racism on the Net: Diablo 2
Update: We have received many emails questioning the claim of racism on the net. Since this article was posted, the company has addressed the issue of server capacity raised here. The author however still stands by his arguments on racist attitudes exhibited online.

Music

Interview with Filipina Percussionist Susie ibarra
Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Masters Sonny Lim and Keoki Kahumoku
Racist "Tsunami Song" Controversy Continues
Reader Cites Hate at Poorhouse Records
Review Poem: Beijing Trio
Take the Next Step - A Requiem for Glenn Horiuchi
Music Review: I Was Born with Two Tongues' Broken Speak
Two Tongues East Coast 2002 Tour

Taiko and the Asian American Movement Stan Shikuma describes the growth of Taiko and how it was a part and parcel of chainging community conciousness in the Japanese American community.

Akira Tana:
In collaboration with Theo Feng, we present an interview with musician Akira Tana
Interview: Nobuko Miyamoto, Long-time activist artist. Nobuko Miyamoto

Movies

The Rebel: Butt-Kicking Martial Arts as Anti-Colonialism in Vietnam
Children of Men
"Sentenced Home" Reveals Deportation Injustice
Bombies Calls Out against Consequences of U.S. Cluster Bombs in Laos
Bebot Videos: Filipina Representations
Rise of the I-Hotel documentary picks up where Fall of the I-Hotel left off
Harry Potter and Cho Chang: Exotified Asian women and invisible Filipinos
Asian Americans Decry Anti-North Korean Bond Film
New Films from North Korea
Sex Jokes and Race in Harold and Kumar
Forget Bill, Kill Tom
Lost in Translation is the Same Old Story
Lumpia Off the Plate
Samurai Show Biz: Last Samurai Casting Call for "beautiful Asian women"
Connecting the Dots: Michael Moore, White Nationalism & the Multiracial Left
Community groups premier Stand Up for Justice: The Story of Ralph Lazo and the Internment

Review: Ancestors in the Americas
Review: Becoming American: The Chinese Experience
Reviews of Better Luck Tomorrow:
     1. Far from a Fantasy
     2. Asian Flavor of the Month or the Beginning of a New Era?
     3. Notable Asian?
Reviews: The Debut, Flipside, Better Luck Tomorrow
Review: Blue Crush is Cultural Theft
Review: The Chinatown Files explores the legacy of McCarthyism on the Chinese Americans.
Review: Comrades.
Review: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Multicultural Imperialism?
Review: Emperor and the Assassin Director Chen Kaige's epic about the Warring States.
Review: Fahrenheit 9-11: A Wide and Inclusive Lens
Review: First Person Plural, a new film about a Korean American adoptee.
Review: Love that Lumpia...
Review: Minority Report(ed) - Same Old Cheap Thrills
Review: Pearl Harbor
Review: Romeo Must Die Jet Li stars in this action flick.
Review: Snow Falling On Cedars
Review: When You're Smiling
Review: Yuri Kochiyama: Passion for Justice

Poetry

Poem: Song for the Immigrants
Taiko #1: For Odaiko New England
Manifesto, 2007: How to survive
Get Out of Town and Got My Almond Eyes on You: Poems by Todd Lee
API Living - Boston 2007 by Todd Lee
Because Not to Cry is an Injustice, So I was Watching One of Those News Documentary on Poverty when, Postcards From Li-Young Lee's Desk from Rathanak Michael Ke
Artists muse whether art follows life or life follows art
Red Clay Women & Bioterrorism
Yearning/Learning to Speak at the 3rd National APIA Spoken Word and Poetry Summit
American Ako
Asian America – We Were There
Atlantic Mother
Bittersweet Love
Chinatown, Displaced Memories, The Day Bob Hope Died - 3 poems from Giles Li
Rant (After Saul Williams)
To White Women Who Think They’re Different: Stop Fuckin’ Touching Me

Visual Arts

Laundry Day:" Talking with Vi Tri Quach, Visual Artist/Activist
Posters on Vietnam War Exhibit Challenge U.S.'s Role in Wars
People's Art: The Movement and the Moment Postcard
Images of 3/15 LA Anti-War Protest
Bay Area Asians Against the War
Day of Remembrance 2003 DOR Poster Art by David Monkawa
Anti-War Demonstration Slide Show
Poster Art: Warmap: for Sept 11
Day of Rememberance 2002

The Asian American Comic Book
Published in 1991 by the Asian American Resource Workshop, the B&W comic book tells the story of four Asian Americans. Each week we will be reprinting sections of the comic book.

Art: Todd Tarselli
Todd Tarselli is a Korean adoptee in who is in the same prison as Mumia Abu-Jamal. His ink drawings illustrates the exploitation of prisoners by the prison industrial complex.