As Texas leaders work to update the state’s social studies curriculum standards, known as the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills or TEKS, one proposed change is the approval of a high school ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Despite centuries of racially discriminatory laws, Asian immigrants and Asian Americans have consistently engaged in labor resistance. Asian women work in a Chinatown garment factory, in New York City ...

Five years ago, the TEAACH Act made Illinois the first state to require public schools to teach Asian American history. WBEZ ...

Part one: Beginnings : Asians in the Americas. Los Chinos in New Spain and Asians in early America ; Coolies -- Part two: The making of Asian America during the age of mass migration and Asian ...

Explore the rich and diverse history of South Asia, a region with over 5000 years of evolution. This video delves into the ...

Renee Tajima-Peña is a professor of Asian-American studies at U.C.L.A. and an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker whose work has focussed on the lives of Asian Americans, from the racism faced by ...

The region today resembles less the rigid binaries of the Cold War than the fluid loyalties and interactions of the pre-colonial era. A detail of a mural at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

When Jinhee Kim’s daughter looked in her history book, she didn’t see anyone who looked like herself – and she had questions for her mother about why that was so. “Mommy, why do we not learn about ...

Jeff Yang, Phil Yu and Philip Wang have been chronicling the progress of Asian America for decades. “RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now” is their attempt to change that. The ...

Rina Banerjee, “Native, migrant naturally” (2018) (left) and “Figure of a Man” (6th–7th century) from Japan, Ibaraki Prefecture, Tumulus period, earthenware with traces of pigment (right) (all photos ...