Asian American history

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tv

July 2, 2023

Warrior Season 3 Review: Gritty Martial Arts Drama Is Back With a Vengeance

Max Gao AV Club

Warrior’s greatest strengths have always lied in its ability to combine deft social commentary, such as the parallels between the racist and xenophobic attitudes of 19th-century San Francisco and the alarming spike in anti-Asian attacks during Covid

film

August 14, 2018

‘Crazy Rich Asians’: Why Did It Take So Long to See a Cast Like This?

Robert Ito New York Times

For Asian and Asian-American viewers, "Crazy Rich Asians" which opens on Aug. 15, is important not just as something of a cinematic Halley’s comet — before “Joy Luck Club” in 1993, there was “Flower Drum Song” in 1961, and now what?

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