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Name: Asian American Cards
Interests: I came up with an idea to make a series of downloadable/printable Asian American trading cards featuring your favorite celebrities, a "Hall of Shame", historic events, activists, etc. You think people would be interested? Anyone want to help?
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Member Since:
6/16/2004
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| GMAIL ACCOUNT FOR TOP 3 SUBMISSIONS
Want an infamous gmail
account? Well here is your chance! I will give out a gmail invite
to the top 3 submitters of ORIGINAL APA bios or historical
events. They will be judged on quality of composition,
completeness, and the number of submissions. Please do not exceed
40 words for each bio or event. You may submit on whomever and
whatever you feel most passionate about having on an AACard.
(This doesn't mean that we will automatically make a card for them,
although it is very likely.) Remember to give your name so you
can recieve credit on
each blurb that you write. By submitting, YOU STATE THAT YOU ARE
THE ORIGINAL AUTHOR and allow asianamericancards.com free use of your
work. See the last few posts to get an idea of what we are
looking for. email all submissions to:
jmak[at]asianamericancards.com (replace the [at] with @ ) We
reserve the right to use any work submitted to us and will exercise
editorial control. All results are final! (unlike the Olympics)
Deadline: Wed. Sept. 8th, 2004 by 11:59PM.
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| This site is not dead!
Been pretty busy lately with teaching, but I've been working on a more
refined design for the cards. I've also been working on the
website I hope to launch in the coming month with a downloadable proof
of concept sheet of 4 to 6 cards in PDF format. I still need
help, so is there anyone out there?
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Help us write a description for the back of upcoming cards. [updated!]
You may submit ANY bio/description for ANY APA person or event you feel strongly about having as a card.
Please send high quality photos or scans (150 dpi) if you have them as
well. (please provide credits. If you can secure rights for the photos, that is even BETTER!)
Submitting this will make it MORE likely that these
people/events/issues will make it as a card. Cards will be available as
free downloads to be used in classrooms, by community groups, and
individuals interested in the Asian American Experience. (see below for
submission guidelines)
TEACHERS/PROFESSORS: Would you like to
help? We would be grateful if you could assign students or give
them extra credit for doing research on Asian American issues, events,
people, stereotypes, etc. and have them submit a short 50 word write up and (2) photos to us. Contact
us if you have any questions.
Here is our initial "wish list" though:
ACTIVISTS:
- Yuri Kochiyama (activist)
- Philip Vera Cruz (activist)
- Helen Zia (activist/journalist)
- Richard Aoki (activist)
- Urvashi Vaid (Activist)
WRITERS/ARTISTS:
- Carlos Bulosan (poet/writer)
- Henry David Hwang (playwright)
- Margaret Cho (Comedienne)
- Ming-Na
- Wayne Wang (filmmaker)
- Renee Tajima-Peña (filmmaker)
HISTORICAL EVENTS/ISSUES:
- Vincent Chin (event/issue)
- 1968 Third World Strikes at San Francisco State (Establishment of Ethnic Studies)
- Vietnam War (esp. APA protests against it)
- Abercrombie T-shirts (AND their unfair sweatshop labor practices)
- Wen Ho Lee
- Details "Gay or Asian" Controversy
- Blu's Hanging Controversy
- DNC Finance Scandal
- Fall of the I-Hotel
- L.A. "Riots"
- Japanese Internment
- 442nd
- Asian Settlers in Hawai'i
SCHOLARS:
- Yuji Ichioka (Scholar/Activist/Coined term "Asian American")
- K.W. Lee
- Glenn Omatsu
- Michael Omi
ATHLETES:
- Roman Gabriel (QB Rams 60s)
- Michelle Kwan (Figure Skater)
- Michael Chang
PUBLICATIONS:
- GIDRA
- A. Magazine
- AsianWeek
POLITICIANS
- Gary Locke (D-Washington)
- Patsy Mink
ORGANIZATIONS:
- JACL (must cover WWII controversy)
- OCA
- KIWA/AIWA
"HALL OF SHAME"
- William Hung
- Charlie Chan
- Suzie Wong
Submissions must:
- Be an original work
- Cite sources used and provide one citation to be used as a "for more information please see..."
- Cite
major facts (who, what, when, where, why, so what?) If it is a person
try to include their ethnicity, place of birth, birthday, etc.
- Say why the case/person/event was important/significant in Asian American history
- Can be in the form of a bulleted list
- No more than 50 words (this is the hard part)
- Please check for spelling and grammar
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available, include at least two photographs scanned at 150 dpi in JPG
or TIFF format. Tell us where you got the photos from and any
credits for the work.
- Include your name and contact info so we can give you credit (this will appear on the back of the card)
Some Hints:
- Try Googling it first.
- Go to the library and ask a reference librarian.
- Try to contact the person/subject/organization/photographers for
bio or photos. Ask for written permission for us to use their
photographs.
- If you are a photographer, you can set up a session with your subject too!
Email your submission to: jmak[at]asianamericancards.com (remember to replace the [at] with "@")
All submissions become property of www.asianamericancards.com
(We reserve the right to edit, reject, or publish anything we receive.)
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| Famous & Notable LGBT Asian Pacific Americans
GLADD - APA Role Models has a page as part of their APA Heritage Month listing some famous and openly 'out' APAs. Some of the more well known:
- Margaret Cho (Actress and Comedian)
- Arthur Dong (Filmmaker and Documentarian)
- Russell Leong (Author and Academic)
- Greg Louganis (Olympic Gold Medalist)
- B. D. Wong (actor)
- Helen Zia (Journalist, Author and Activist)
- (Edit) Urvashi Vaid (Activist) <--- this one is for you geno888
Here's another site with a really good listing of notable APAs in general...
history: notable asian pacific americans
Let me know if you find more sites like these. We definitely need
more non-East Asian representation here. Let us know what we are
missing.
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| Future "Hall of Shame" Cards?
Asian Legends in Entertainment: The Commemorative Collection!
This is from a parody site called www.asianguy.com.
They are (obviously) not real cards , just made to make a
point. This was kinda what I was envisioning for the "Hall of
Shame"...thanks to newtypeguy
for pointing this site out under the comments from my last post.
Maybe I should ask asianguy.com if they want to head up the "Hall of
Shame"? Wuddya think?
-=EDIT=-
Ahem...for those of you confused brothas and sistas who cannot tell the
difference between white folk and yellow/brown folk here is a point of
clarification - David Carradine is SO not Asian...and I quote:
"Kung Fu premiered more than 30 years ago. Do people still think you’re Asian?
Chinese people are always surprised to learn that I have no Chinese in
me. I’m actually a mixture of Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, German,
Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian and Cherokee. I have the attitude of an
Irishman." - Stuff
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