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Dr. Devon G. Peña's Appointment to the First National Nature Assessment (NNA1)
(April 17, 2024)
Two women sit next to each other in a gymnasium, one wearing a gray hat and button down shirt, and the other wearing a white t-shirt
AAPI Voter Turnout Involves Many Unseen Obstacles
(March 27, 2024)
Several performers hold up a lion and dragon in front of the Wing Luke Museum
Lunar New Year Becomes a Recognized Holiday in Washington State
(March 15, 2024)
An Asian woman wearing a sweater and glasses sits at a table with food items in front of her and her hand hovering over her smartphone laying on the table
Linh Thủy Nguyễn's Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production
(March 13, 2024)
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Equity, Justice, and Inclusion (EJI) Winter Newsletter
(February 29, 2024)
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Engaging with Ethnic Studies Librarians
(February 20, 2024)
Several performers hold up a lion and dragon in front of the Wing Luke Museum
Lunar New Year Celebrations and the Push to Make it a Washington State Holiday
(February 12, 2024)
A letter addressed to Dr. Rick Bonus, AES' Chair, from the OCA Greater Seattle Asian Pacific American Advocates
OCA Greater Seattle - Asian Pacific American Advocates Golden Circle Awards & Lunar New Year Celebration
(February 6, 2024)
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell pulls a string to reveal the new Year of the Dragon Forever stamp at the International District Community Center. There are five individuals standing stage right and three standing stage left. An enlarged image of the Year of the Dragon stamp center stage.
U.S. Postal Service unveils new Year of the Dragon Stamp
(February 5, 2024)
Centered on a stamp is a face of a dragon colored light gold, with twelve jagged white teeth, an orange nose, red eyes, tri-color horns with pink at the tip, light green in the middle, and red at the base. The stamp reads, "Lunar New Year USA" with a strikethrough the word "Forever". The year 2024 is noted at the bottom-right corner of the stamp.
Lunar New Year with Year of the Dragon Stamp
(January 26, 2024)
Tina Le, left, and Cooper Nguyen, right, take turns moving with the lion head at a Little Saigon grocery warehouse rented by the Mak Fai Kung Fu Dragon & Lion Dance Association in December
Asian Americans in Seattle use Lunar New Year Traditions as connection to Heritage, Family
(January 18, 2024)
LaShawnDa, centered in the photo, is sitting on a couch wearing a gray shawl over a black shirt and is talking with an African American grandmother
LaShawnDa Pittman's Book Shared in Chicago Tribune Article
(January 16, 2024)
Han Eckelberg wearing a multi-color long-sleeve shirt, crouching in front of a group of children speaking to them
Seattle Sounders FC Features Han Eckelberg
(January 10, 2024)
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Spotlight on Tagalog, in the Northwest Asian Weekly
(January 8, 2024)
Light blue book cover with the title, "Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival". Elderly African American woman sitting on a red couch with a baby on her lap. Three African American grandchildren standing around her.
LaShawnDa Pittman's Book Reviewed on Fostering Families Today
(December 29, 2023)
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LaShawnDa Pittman Interviewed by USA Today about Black Grandparents Raising their Grandkids
(December 28, 2023)
Rick Bonus
A Message from the Chair
(September 29, 2023)
Prof. Connie So
Connie So interviewed by Fox 13 News about Asian Hate in the CID
(September 25, 2023)
Prof. Connie So
Connie So Earns 2023 Outstanding Public Service Award
(September 18, 2023)
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In A Yellow Tone Evolves
(March 16, 2023)
Bruce Lee Ascending 2022
OUGL & AES Celebrate 'Bruce Lee Ascending' 
(October 20, 2022)
Constitution Day
Beyond a Colorblind Constitution
(October 13, 2022)
Rick Bonus
A Message from the Chair
(September 29, 2022)
Book Cover: Filipinx American Studies: Reckoning, Reclamation, Transformation
Fordham University Press announces new anthology co-edited by Rick Bonus
(April 26, 2022)
Book Cover: The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature
Ŏmma’s Baby, Appa’s Maybe: Black Amerasian Children and the Layers of Diaspora
(March 22, 2022)
Oliver Rollins
Questioning the Violent Brain
(February 14, 2022)
Health Affairs February 2022
New Article Co-Written by Rick Bonus on the Impacts of Colonialism and Racism on Filipinx American Health Inequities
(February 10, 2022)
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Professor Connie So on the Lunar New Year KBCS Podcast
(February 4, 2022)
Publicity photo of Memphis Minnie
Sonnet Retman Wins Publication Award 
(January 12, 2022)
Bruce Harrell, Seattle’s mayor-elect, during his campaign.
Prof. Connie So Cited in the International Examiner
(December 1, 2021)
Langston Hughes review, 2021-09-01, Vol.27 (2)
New Publication -- "Our Temples for Tomorrow": Langston Hughes and the Making of a Democratic Korea
(November 8, 2021)
Gendered Invisibility: Ethnic Mexican Women and the Bracero Program
New publication -- Gendered Invisibility: Ethnic Mexican Women and the Bracero Program
(November 8, 2021)
Book Cover: Black Intellectual Tradition
AFRAM Challenges Common Assumptions
(September 28, 2021)
Book Cover: Ocean in the School
Reflecting on The Ocean in the School’s Cover Image
(September 28, 2021)
Book Cover: In a Yellow Tone
In a Yellow Tone, An AAS 380 Production
(September 28, 2021)
American Quarterly September 2021
Jang Wook Huh's article, "The Harlem Renaissance in Translation: Socialism, Nostalgia, and the Multilingual Spaces of Diaspora," has been published in American Quarterly
(September 27, 2021)
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How America tells Asian American men they’re not attractive
(August 5, 2021)
Poster for film: Honor Thy Mother
Film shares untold history of Indipino community in Bainbridge Island
(August 2, 2021)
Emancipation Day celebration in Austin, Texas, on June 19, 1900
An occasion for unapologetic Black joy, community connection, and reeducation’: LaTaSha Levy discusses Juneteenth
(June 23, 2021)
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month 
(June 3, 2021)
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Prof. Connie So and the Lunchbox Moment!
(June 2, 2021)
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Facing Race: Washington sees a surge in Asian activism
(May 19, 2021)
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Prof. Bonus comments on “Why it’s complicated to group Asians and Pacific Islanders.”
(May 4, 2021)
positions: asia critique, Volume 29, Issue 1
Prof. Rick Bonus has just published an essay in the journal, positions: asia critique, “Navigating the Ocean in the School: Pacific Islanders in the Midst of Empire, Schooling, and Indigeneity.”
(May 4, 2021)
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Prof. Oliver Rollins' new article on antiracism and neuroscience
(April 26, 2021)
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AES joins Southeast Asia Center in condemning altered images of prisoners
(April 19, 2021)
Office of Multi-Ethnic Student Affairs, University of Michigan
Rick Bonus speaks on Pacific Islander student experiences and building community in university settings
(March 31, 2021)
South Seattle Emerald
Asian Americans Call For Solidarity With All People Of Color
(March 31, 2021)
KBCT TV
Northwest Now: Violence Against Asian Americans
(March 31, 2021)
Corky Lee (1947-2021)
Remembering Corky Lee — the unofficial Asian American photographer laureate
(March 31, 2021)