Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Race matters in America -- two articles worth reading about America's social trends and ethnic-racial divide

Jeff Yang, a social-commentatorand former editor of now defunct "A" Magazine, writes about Asian and Asian-American pop culture in America and how the new generation of "white-bread" Asians born, raised, and educated in America may be disconnected from old media and into new media in the following think-piece on "Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month," i.e. May.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/05/27/apop.DTL

Next, another interesting article about racial apartheid in California's prison systems, divided amongst the races and racial "Macon-Dixon" lines, underscoring that after half a century of civil rights to integrate and get the races to come together, the racial fault lines are not being bridged and it shows in California's prison system:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/27/MNK610P4C8.DTL