"This article introduces a new NPQ series titled The New Asian Diaspora Media: Defending Democracy Locally and Globally. Co-produced with Kavitha Rajagopalan, who directs a program on community journalism at the City University of New York (CUNY), this series highlights stories of how different Asian American communities are using grassroots digital media to meet their communities' needs for trustworthy in-language information amid a media environment distorted by rampant disinformation."
"In 1883, a young New Yorker named Wong Chin Foo founded a newspaper called The Chinese American-a term he coined. The newspaper embodied and disseminated his deeply held dream: that the vast and growing immigrant population from China naturalize as citizens like he had, becoming, in turn, Americans. Today, as the United States undergoes its latest wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, the role of AAPI community journalism is more important than ever."
"The law barred all immigration from China for 10 years and ushered in a period of exclusion that culminated in the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act, which banned Asian immigration to the United States entirely. This era of Asian exclusion came at the crest of a wave of immigration from across Asia, driven in part by US imperialism which led to, among other territorial acquisitions, the annexation of the Philippines, Guam, and Hawaii in 1898."
A new NPQ series titled The New Asian Diaspora Media: Defending Democracy Locally and Globally is co-produced with Kavitha Rajagopalan, who directs a community journalism program at CUNY. The series highlights how diverse Asian American communities deploy grassroots digital media to provide trustworthy, in-language information amid rampant disinformation. In 1883 Wong Chin Foo founded The Chinese American and coined the term 'Chinese American,' promoting naturalization and citizenship. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act imposed legal exclusion against Asian immigration. Asian and Pacific Islander immigrants began founding newspapers in the 1850s and later created radio and television outlets, forming a resilient AAPI media ecosystem.
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