Shirley J. Lim, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
The Asian American actress rose to fame in an era when white actors in yellowface were more likely to play Asian characters than Asian ones.
A rally against violence toward Asian Americans, after the March 16 attack in Atlanta, Georgia, that killed eight people, including six Chinese and Korean women.
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The media tends to render Asian Americans as either a ‘perpetual foreigner’ or ‘model minority’ – both stereotypes that have been levied in tandem against immigrants from Asia since the 1830s.
Rates of HPV screenings and vaccinations remain low for some subgroups of Asian American women.
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Researchers have found a way to encourage cervical cancer screenings and vaccinations in Korean American women. Might their findings also work in other underrepresented populations?