sexism
-
How resilience and beauty shaped artist Ruth Asawa
July 18, 2024 by Wendi Yamashita, Nichi Bei News
RUTH ASAWA: AN ARTIST TAKES SHAPE By Sam Nakahira (Los Angeles: Getty Publications. 2024, 112 pp., $19.95, Hardcover) In her debut graphic novel, “Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape,” Sam […] READ MORE
-
San Francisco’s Japantown holds vigil against post-election hate
December 1, 2016 by Nichi Bei News
Two weeks after the election of Donald J. Trump as the next president of the United States, a crowd of about 500 people gathered at San Francisco Japantown’s Peace Plaza […] READ MORE
-
The princess phenomenon
January 1, 2012 by Nichi Bei News
CINDERELLA ATE MY DAUGHTER: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture By Peggy Orenstein (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011, 256 pp., $25.99, hardcover) While true gender equity […] READ MORE
-
AFFIRMATIVE (RE)ACTION: Cal’s pay-by-race bake sale gets yawn from Asian students
October 6, 2011 by Nichi Bei News
BERKELEY, Calif. — The debate over colorblind admissions policies in California’s four-year public colleges is heating up again. The passage of Prop. 209, the anti-affirmative action initiative passed by state […] READ MORE
-
“Ga(wo)man”: On Yuri Kochiyama & Sexism/Patriarchy in Japanese American Culture
March 8, 2011 by Colin Masashi Ehara
Note: For readers who are not of Nikkei heritage, Gaman means “to persevere through extremely difficult times with patience, grace and dignity.” With March being Women’s Herstory Month, we […] READ MORE
-
Nikkei Reflect on ‘What it Means to be a Japanese American Woman’
October 22, 2009 by Nichi Bei Web
When community members at this year’s Mountain View Obon Bazaar and Festival were asked to explain what it means to be Japanese American, the responses were as diverse as the […] READ MORE
MOST POPULAR
