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 Introduction: the dumb prof takes on intersectionality Among decent, intelligent, and respectable human beings in the United States and around the world, the occupation of Donald Trump of the...

https://www.racefiles.com/2017/06/30/the-dumb-prof-considers-intersectionality-in-the-age-of-trump-2/

“I’m going to need you to step aside for additional screening.” As queer and trans Muslims and South Asians, this phrase is deeply familiar to us. We live in a time when the color of our ...

https://www.racefiles.com/2016/09/16/jeh-johnson-can-you-hear-us-now-15yearslater-queer-trans-muslims-and-south-asians-demand-an-end-to-racial-and-religious-profiling/

A thick strand in the history of U.S. policing is rooted back in the slave patrols of the 19th century. Patty rollers were authorized to stop, question, search, harass and summarily punish any Bl...

https://www.racefiles.com/2016/07/12/baton-rouge-falcon-heights-dallas/

The Peter Liang conviction was a reminder of the space between my father and me. Usually the space hangs there, pregnant but unperturbed. Every now and then, however, something like Liang’s con...

https://www.racefiles.com/2016/03/17/a-letter-to-my-chinese-immigrant-father-about-american-racism/

On February 10, Abdul Jamil Kamawal, a 68-year-old Afghani American man, was bludgeoned to death with a shovel in a suburb of Portland, Oregon. Remembered as “a pillar in the Muslim commun...

https://www.racefiles.com/2016/02/23/the-death-of-islamophobia-the-rise-of-islamo-racism/

First year in college? Back to campus? If you haven’t registered for Asian American Studies here are 3 reasons why you need to NOW. They went back to campus, but they didn’t go to class. I...

https://www.racefiles.com/2015/09/29/9597/

Loyal readers may remember back in October of 2013 we ran a post from Simon Tam of the band The Slants. They have been engaged in a long battle with the US Trademark Office to trademark the n...

https://www.racefiles.com/2015/05/29/the-slants/

Sai Vishudhi Chandrasekhar of New York, New York, during the 88th Scripps National Spelling Bee semifinals on May 28, 2015 in Washington, DC. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty The following is an e...

https://www.racefiles.com/2015/05/28/spelling-race/

I was an awkward and impressionable pre-pubescent Asian American boy when America’s imagination was captured by a certain William Hung and his off-key 2004 rendition of Ricky Martin’s “She...

https://www.racefiles.com/2015/05/07/when-asian-emasculation-meets-misogyny-on-eddie-huangs-black-feminist-problem/

Chinese Americans across the country are planning to rally on April 26 in defense of Peter Liang. The rookie New York Police Department officer fatally shot Akai Gurley in a stairwell of the...

https://www.racefiles.com/2015/04/23/when-being-chinese-is-not-enough-peter-liang-and-the-future-of/