Written by UNC Chalkaa In the modern era of collegiate dance, the competitive journey of each DDN (Desi DanceNetwork) team toward Legends – DDN’s national dance championship – is not highlighted by itsmembers’ talent or skill. Instead, it is forged in the culmination of South Asian artists’ creativeefforts as they create a ten-minute set with…
Written by Anna, Fall 2023 NCAAT Youth Ambassador American history is a required part of high school for all students in North Carolina. Yet, for the 300,000 Asian Americans in NC, we wonder: is this our history? Is this truly our history, in a nation as diverse as America, when few to none of the…
Written by Gugma V., Fall 2023 Youth Engagement Fellow On my bedroom shelf sits a half-read book, Noli Me Tangere, by Jose Rizal, a Filipino national hero who wrote about the Spanish colonial occupation of the Philippines and led a peaceful movement for independence. My father, an avid reader, gifted me this book hoping I…
Each year, we all turn our attention to the big screens, searching for a movie, in hopes of catching a reflection of ourselves. It doesn’t have to be the big blockbuster theatrical performance of a lifetime – a movie with…
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Over the past couple of months, Aida has been a part of the NCAAT team as a youth intern. She’s done so much during her time here, with one of her most notable accomplishments being the personal project she worked on throughout the internship. Her personal project, “Asian x Black Solidarity and the South:…
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]I remember applying for a leadership position alongside a white male friend. When the results came out that I was chosen and he was not, there was no congratulations. Instead, he told me, a Chinese American woman, “They probably didn’t choose me because I’m a white male and they’re looking for more diverse applicants.” [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column…
[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]Have you ever wondered what the true impacts of things such as better transportation, communication, and trade have on our world today? If so, please allow me to introduce you to a phenomenon called “globalization,” a term defined by National Geographic as “how trade and technology have made the world into a more connected…
During the long 60’s, the term “Asian American” meant something different than it does today. It wasn’t just a demographic category, it denoted a sense of pan-Asian identity that united Asians in both the homelands and America in the struggle…
When watching the 2020 film Nomadland, I would not have guessed that it was directed by an Asian American woman. Learning about the director Chloé Zhao made me have the revelation that representation does not have to necessarily be on…
I questioned my sexuality for a long time because I never felt like my experience would fit the mold of the typical white queer American.