Identity has become very prominent in American culture in recent years. What you look like; where you come from; how much you earn and how you talk, are the superficial indices that many use to peg ...

Growing up, I didn’t really understand what it meant to be Asian American. Part of it could be that I’ve grown up in predominantly white communities, mainly in Missouri, where no established Asian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the “Loneliest Americans,” Jay Caspian Kang unpacks the history and impossibility of the “Asian American” identifier, arguing ...

Rethinking identity in a fractured America As trust in institutions plummets and as many people search for shared values, what is the state of American identity? Today, in a special episode of “Post ...

Photographer Eric Lee spent a large part of his childhood struggling to find his place as an Asian American — the constant to and fro between, he says, feeling "too Asian" and "not Asian enough" ...

Yeah, I am Lilliana Mason. I am a professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland College Park. Um, I think I have, uh, a complicated sense of my American identity in that my ...

In his 2022 book Model Minority Masochism, scholar Takeo Rivera argued that the influx of Asian immigrants to the United States after 1965 and the trial of Vincent Chin’s murderers in the early ’80s ...

Our friends the British are forever being accused of suffering through an identity crisis. Ever since Brexit or Thatcherism or Suez, the thinking goes, the United Kingdom has never figured out what ...