The 442
Named after the famous military unit, this column is designed to school you (in all the best ways) on accomplished Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in history
Portraits of Nisei Soldiers
Courtesy of the National Archives, photo no. 210-CMB-SA2-1665
What started as a marketing ploy ended in mystery, though her story lives on
How the diver made history as the first Asian American man to win an Olympic gold medal
The queer Chinese American artist painted a city that no longer exists, before the glitzy tourist traps and sterile storefronts appeared
How one man provided a path for Cambodian refugees in their new country
From her work on the Manhattan Project to the experiment that bears her name, Chien-Shiung Wu’s contributions to physics resonate to this day
How the California Gold Rush and racism (surprise!) led to this now ubiquitous stereotype
How one actress and 20 Vietnamese refugee women forever changed an entire industry
The late activist and photojournalist used his work to chronicle the AA+PI community and record our history over the course of 50 years
This 1990s artists’ collective was as anarchistic as the titan lizard itself
How one Filipino activist changed an entire generation’s understanding of what a simple condiment could be