Blog Archive: June 2011

Some 21.5 percent of the 1.3 million Japanese American (JA) population is 65 or older, making it this country’s oldest ethnic group. The overall number of 65-plus residents in the United States, now 12 percent, will reach 20 percent about 2050. So the challenges of housing and caregiving for JA seniors foreshadow what the future will bring for the rest of the country.

There is much in Diane Farr’s memoir Kissing Outside the Lines to put one off. A white woman, the author details her path to marriage to a Korean American man, in some appalling ways. Ultimately, however, she won me over.

Solitary confinement, harassment, sexual assault and lack of medical care are just a few of the inhumane conditions that immigrants face in detention centers across Arizona, according to a report released Thursday by the Arizona American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Superintendent John Huppenthal deemed ethnic studies courses in the Tucson Unified School District to be in violation of the HB 2281 law, but an independent audit has concluded that the program is legal.