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...team of Wan and She cruised to an 8-0 victory in doubles, while the team of Hricko and Jain won its match...
...often been asked to stand aside, to let their concerns be subsumed by the greater cause of group solidarity. Simply put, many APA activists have prioritized race over oppressions of gender, class, and sexuality, effectively silencing those who might question the terms of this "racial solidarity." As Jian Wan Chen's story illustrates, this silencing comes with heinous consequences...
...Sept. 7, 1987, Jian Wan Chen's husband, Dong Lu Chen, smashed her skull in with a claw hammer after she allegedly admitted to having an affair. Chen's teenage son discovered her body in the family's Brooklyn apartment. The trial judge sentenced Dong to five years probation on a reduced manslaughter charge after concluding, based on the testimony of an anthropologist, that Dong was driven to violence by traditional Chinese values...
Does this mean that Jian Wan Chen's status as an Asian sister is negligible when weighed against the call to stand in solidarity with "the race," a call that implies and obscures the privileging of a particular gender? What about the Asian American lesbian and sweatshop workers: should they also subordinate their concerns and silence themselves in solidarity with "the race...
...harmonic convergence for cineastes and film geeks. Lucas, of course, hasn't been behind a camera since finishing 1977's Star Wars; he is currently in London shooting the first of the three long-awaited Star Wars prequels in which Ewan McGregor will star as the youthful Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Natalie Portman as Luke Skywalker's mom. Kubrick, who hasn't worked since 1987's Full Metal Jacket, is also in London, where he is filming Eyes Wide Shut, a psychosexual thriller with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman; Kubrick began shooting the picture almost a full year...