All articles tagged Asian American

Today marks the biggest holiday of the year for thousands of families in Illinois: the start of the Lunar New Year. We chatted about traditions and celebrations in the Vietnamese and Taiwanese communities.

Today we explored the question of what it means to be Asian American. Specifically, whether it makes sense to have a single marker of identity for that broad group of people hailing from a huge portion of the Earth’s landmass and how they fit into a nation that has a longstanding binary along the poles of Black and white. We talked about it Jay Caspian Kang, who explores the topic in his new book, “The Loneliest Americans."