Random Man Runs for President: Andrew Yang and the Media
BY AVERY KIM When the media never fully determined how to cover the first Asian-American Democrat running for president nationally,
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The AAPR blog features web-only content related to Asian American policy. To keep our online blog more dynamic, we will be focusing on two sources for stories. The first will be an aggregation of up-to-date articles relevant to AAPI policy, gathered from news outlets across the web. The second is original, student-written content on AAPI policy issues — more intermittent, but important and thoughtful as always. We welcome potential submissions from both within and outside the Harvard Kennedy School. Please submit potential blog ideas to aapr@hks.harvard.edu.
Addressing Labor Exploitation: An Examination of Undocumented Asian Americans in the Workplace
BY MATT NGUYEN-NGO This article reviews unethical business practices in restaurants and nail salons vis à vis undocumented Asian American
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“Shelter in Power” Podcast: Bay Area AAPIs organize against COVID & xenophobia
Andrew Fan and Sydney Fang explore how Bay Area-based Asian American organizations have been nimble and responsive to the emergent
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Challenging the colorblind assertion: The present-day case for affirmative action
AAPR Editor Sydney Fang interviewed Winifred Kao, the Litigation Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice–Asian Law Caucus, regarding the Students
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Perpetually Foreign: What the rise of xenophobia teaches us about being American
This piece is cross-published on the Kennedy School Review BY PAHUA CHA My mom delivered me onto a kitchen floor
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Race Riot Roots: Looking back on the 1992 Los Angeles Riots and finding routes to healing
On the 27th anniversary of a little-known Los Angeles trial, Andrew Cha looks back on the context from which the
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Asian Americans Should Support Affirmative Action
BY THE AAPR EDITORIAL BOARD As Asian American students at Harvard, we do not support the Students for Fair Admissions
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