Heritage Month 2020: Day 25

San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum is the largest museum in the U.S. devoted exclusively to Asian art. It has created a host of #MuseumFromHome online offerings to inspire and connect people during the pandemic.

The museum is providing fun experiences for the whole family that range from online demos, to behind the scenes videos and storytelling tours.

Visit @asianartmuseum on instagram, or https://asianart.org/ to museum from home!

Heritage Month 2020: Day 24

The youngest Nobel laureate for sciences in the modern era, physicist Tsung Dao-Lee won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the violation of the parity law. Dao-Lee and his partner Chen Ning Yang were the first Chinese laureates, and Dao-Lee remains the youngest American Nobel laureate in history. In his later life, Dao-Lee was a professor and researcher at Columbia University and created the Chun-Tsung Endowment in memory of his wife, which awards undergraduate scholarships to students at six universities in China.

Heritage Month 2020: Day 23

Did you know Asian Americans used to be stereotyped as the “Yellow Peril”? Asian men were painted as sexually dominant, and Asian women as aggressive seductresses. Sessue Hayakawa, the first Asian male film star in America, was typecast as the dominant Asian man, seducing white wives and, in his breakout role “The Cheat,” literally branding them. The complete change of narrative to “Model Minority” shows the flippant ways that people use racial stereotypes to manipulate public perception when convenient.

Heritage Month 2020: Day 22

Patsy Mink was the first woman of color elected to Congress in 1965, and the first Japanese-American woman to practice law in Hawaii. As a congresswoman, she fought for gender and racial equality, affordable childcare, bilingual education, and played a key role in the enactment of Title IX. Throughout her career, Mink remained true to her progressive ideals and one month after her death in 2002, she was re-elected to Congress.

Heritage Month 2020: Day 21

In 1912, Tye Leung Schulze was the first Chinese American woman to vote in a US election.

“My first vote? – Oh, yes, I thought long over that. I studied; I read about all your men who wished to be president. I learned about the new laws. I wanted to KNOW what was right, not to act blindly…I think it right we should all try to learn, not vote blindly, since we have been given this right to say which man we think is the greatest…I think too that we women are more careful than the men. We want to do our whole duty more. I do not think it is just the newness that makes us like that. It is conscience.”

Heritage Month 2020: Day 20

Mental Health is an intersectional issue.

There are various layers of social stratification that can combine to disadvantage some people and create disparities in access to mental health care.

 

 

Some racial and cultural groups have stigma about their own members having mental illnesses and accessing mental health care.

 

 

Here are some ways that YOU can fight the stigma.

Heritage Month 2020: Day 18

Each year, the National Cherry Blossom Festival commemorates the 1912 gift of 3,000 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo to the city of Washington, DC. The gift and annual celebration honor the lasting friendship between the United States and Japan and the continued close relationship between the two countries.