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The U.S. Census Bureau predicts that the Asian-American population will total 40 million people by 2050. While as a whole this group is characterized by very dark hair and dark eyes, there is much diversity in Asian skin tones – from very light, pale skin to light or dark brown skin. One common thread is the pigmentation issues that Asian Americans often face as after-effects of other dermatologic problems that can be as troublesome as the original condition itself.

Despite her blond hair, blue eyed, light skinned exterior, Olympic Swimmer and Gold Medalist Natalie is actually ¼ Filipino and proud of it!

At the 2008 Olympics, she became the first American female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympics and the first woman ever to win a 100 m backstroke gold in two consecutive Olympics.

Students from all over the country are getting a taste of the diverse melting pot that is Queens as they participate in the Summer Institute, hosted by the Asian/American Center (A/AC) at Queens College.

From Sunday, July 25 to Saturday, July 31, the 17 students, between the ages of 18 and 25, are participating in guided neighborhood visits, workshops, lectures and discussions. The goal of the program is to teach the students about cultural diversity by exposing them to the many backgrounds that coexist in Queens, the most ethnically diverse county in the nation.

The theme for the 2011 AAAS conference “Consuming Asian America” is inspired, in part, by the site of the conference itself—New Orleans, the city that measures the success of its Mardi Gras celebration by weighing the garbage collected the morning after and whose shopping and nightclub district for locals is called “Fat City.” They invite proposals to engage with all aspects of consumption, such as excess (after all, New Orlean’s tradition of Mardi Gras suggests an excess of consumption), labor material culture, technology, marketing, identity, assimilation, gender, popular cu

Select Asian American students put together this video campaign for the Asian American Association at the University of Missouri - Columbia.

The Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) and its partners convene today in Washington, D.C. to educate lawmakers and the public on the deadly impact of hepatitis B and hepatitis C. At noon, advocacy activities will culminate in the first national hepatitis and liver cancer prevention rally in Upper Senate Park, where hundreds led by the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable (NVHR) will demand federal funding to eradicate these diseases that cause up to 80% of primary liver cancers and is more common than HIV/AIDS.

Spring is here! With what seemed like the longest winter ever (or is that just me getting older?), we finally get the chance to whip out our shorts, sandals (dare I say bikini’s or is that me clinging to my youth?) and shades. So, what about our skin? It has been through the bitter cold and chaffing wind, the hot hot showers we know we aren’t supposed to take but do anyway because it’s sooo cold we must…So, because we all know our springs tend to be short these days, we’ve got precious little time to get our skin spring ready!

The term Asian-Pacific encompasses the Asian continent and the Pacific islands of Melanesia (New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji and the Solomon Islands), Micronesia (Marianas, Guam, Wake Island, Palau, Marshall Islands, Kiribati, Nauru and the Federated States of Micronesia) and Polynesia (New Zealand, Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, Midway Islands, Samoa, American Samoa,Tonga, Tuvalu, Cook Islands, French Polynesia and Easter Island). These groups, as of July, 2008, numbered over sixteen million individuals (over five percent of the U.S. population.)

We need more Vietnamese groups on the map!

In the spirit of the Asian American Heritage Month celebration (CelebrASIAN) at SMU (Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX), the Vietnamese Student Association (VSA) will be hosting their 3rd annual movie night. An American film about a Vietnamese family living in the United States (All About Dad) will be screened in the Hughes Trigg Theater. (The film made it on the Asia Pacific Arts list of Top ten Best 2009 Asian American Movies among other honors.) Following the screening, there will be a Q&A session with the lead actor and his sons. Complimentary Vietnamese food will be served for the first 200 guests beginning at 6pm on the 1st floor of the Hughes Trigg Student Center, seating for food and refreshments will be in the ballrooms prior to the screening at 7pm. Location: 3140 Dyer
St., Dallas, TX 75205.