Showing posts with label Activist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Activist. Show all posts

See The Zia - Helen Zia

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

If you're looking for something to do - short notice I know - check out Helen Zia down at Bryn Mawr’s Dalton Hall at 7:30 this Wednesday night:

Asian-American activist, author, and journalist Helen Zia will be speaking at Bryn Mawr’s Dalton Hall, room 300, on Wednesday, April 22, at 7:30 pm.

Her subject for the evening will be “Transcending ‘Evil’ in the Age of Obama: Notes of an Asian American Feminist.”

“As this nation rapidly moves toward a ‘minority majority’ and emergent groups move out of invisibility in our workplaces, communities and even the White House,” Zia asks, “can we re-envision the new face of America in these contemporary times that have been labeled ‘post-Civil Rights,’ ‘post-racism,’ and ‘post-feminist’?”

Documentary: Richard Aoki 1938-2009

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Saw this video down at RaceWire and wanted to make sure and post it up on here as well as it chronicles out the life of Asian American activist Richard Aoki. The documentary should be getting released this year.

Bill Hosokawa: Retrospective

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

If you get a chance, you should check out the the LA Times article and retrospective on Bill Hosokawa - journalist, World War II internment survivor, and author of the book Nisei: The Quiet Americans (one of the 10 books he wrote). It details not only his successes as one of the top Asian American journalists, but also the prejudice and racism that he had encountered along the way and how he overcame those obstacles.