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The Parents Trying To Pass Down A Language They Hardly Speak
How The Woks Of Life Is Shaping Chinese Homecooking in America
Who Can Tell This Story?
Going Home With Ocean Vuong
There’s No Way To Prepare For Grief
If We Called Ourselves Yellow
In My Mom’s Shoes 
My ‘Oriental Father’: On The Words We Use To Describe Ourselves
Why It’s So Hard For Us To Agree About Dong From ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ 
After Election, Diversity Trainers Face A New Version Of ‘Us Versus Them’
‘Politically Correct’: The Phrase Has Gone From Wisdom To Weapon
An exploration of double-eyelid surgery: Part one — the history. Part two — the why. 
An Officer Shot A Black Teen, And St. Louis Rioted — In 1962 

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The Waves: The Afghan Women Left Behind: Gender And U.S. Immigration
The Waves: Incompetent Cervix: The Misogynistic History Behind Naming The Female Body
The Waves: The Bama Rush To Trad Wife Pipeline
Poet Tracy K. Smith And Grief In The Holidays And ‘Different Vocabularies For Feeling’
Code Switch: The Blessing (And Curse) Of Miss Saigon
Code Switch: It's Not (Just) About The Blood
Code Switch: A Letter From Young Asian Americans To Their Families
How The ‘Kung Fu Fighting’ Melody Came To Represent Asia

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Behind The Civil Rights Act: How It Was Made And What It Means Today