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SFGate: Asian Pop
Multiracial activists - and some Barack Obama supporters - are seething over best-selling economist Steven Levitt's assertions that mixed-race people are inherently more likely to engage in "bad behavior." There are those who saw in it the acrid tang of...
SFGate: Asian Pop
Like just about every other red-blooded American kid, I grew up with visions of sporting glory dancing in my head: Buzzer-beating halfcourt lobs. Hail Mary passes from deep in enemy territory. Walk-off home runs in the ninth. To this day, I still resent the...
SFGate: Asian Pop
With the Beijing Olympics in full swing, Jeff Yang explores the fascination Asians have with obscure sports like table tennis and badminton. Like just about every other red-blooded American kid, I grew up with visions of sporting glory dancing in my head:...
SFGate: Asian Pop
"White skin notwithstanding, this is our first black President. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. After all, (he) displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-...
SFGate: Asian Pop
"White skin notwithstanding, this is our first black president. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. After all, he displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-...
SFGate: Asian Pop
In America until recently, game shows were the Hostess Twinkies of television programming - lowbrow, mass-market fare, depressingly free of either nuance or nutrition. Not so in Japan, where the genre was a kind of imaginative, wacky performance art that...
SFGate: Asian Pop
With the breakout success of ABC's "Wipeout" and "I Survived a Japanese Game Show," U.S. airwaves are about to be deluged with a veritable tsunami of Japanese-style game shows. No one would ever call the television staple commonly referred to as the...
SFGate: Asian Pop
It's always distressing to hear a lack of noise coming from the room of my 4-year-old son, Hudson, because, in the past, it's frequently meant some kind of catastrophic damage to pets, people or property. So a few weekends ago, alerted to the sound of...
SFGate: Asian Pop
Themes of death and the afterlife have been central to many recent Asian pop standouts, prompted by the success of the blockbuster anime/manga franchise "Death Note." Jeff Yang explores the context and meaning of this latter-day death jam. It's always...
SFGate: Asian Pop
Where race meets sex, angels fear to tread. Jeff Yang dives into Asian America's favorite taboo topic: interracial romance and the "gender divide." I remember when, the week before I left for college, my parents sat me down to tell me about the facts of life....
