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You may have seen Nada before, in an image that she never wanted to be taken, in an image that changed her life. In it, her face is sharply lit by a single fluorescent lamp as her dust-streaked arms ...
At a time when immigrants and refugees in the U.S. are increasingly coming under threat of detention, deportation and having their legal status swiped away, a public art installation in Boston will ...
When a reader has to walk that vulnerable space between style and substance, falling deeply into the former at the sake of the latter, there’s a literary problem. If a writer consistently offers a ...
For years, Paul Watanabe, director of the Institute for Asian American Studies at UMass-Boston, would get a version of the same question from policymakers and journalists: What issues do Asian ...
As artist Maggie Wong talks about her early childhood in Oakland, California, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she pauses. Stopping halfway through a sentence describing the group to which her ...
Art can be beautiful, art can attack, or it can do both at the same time. It has long been used to challenge the status quo, and Sheida Soleimani, a 33-year-old visual media artist and Brandeis ...
First there were the threats of crackdowns on immigration. Then there were the detentions of international students who had done nothing wrong. Then the deletion of many student visas and then … their ...
Longtime Chinatown-based sculptor and painter Wen-ti Tsen is among three Boston artists recently awarded the Wagner Arts Fellowship. The new arts fellowship – also awarded to L’Merchie Frazier and ...
Several Asian American groups and leaders are blasting a newly revealed State Department policy to prevent many Chinese international students from studying in colleges and universities in the United ...
Measure would put Asian American, Pacific Islander and Native Hawaiian lessons in nation’s classrooms Two U.S. lawmakers have introduced a measure they say would help better educate U.S. students ...