Quoted: Bao Phi on Grappling with Race
One of the insidious benefits of being a person of color raised in Minnesota is to be acutely aware of how race impacts you on several different levels. The fact that I have to explain much of my...
View ArticleNOCs (Nerds of Color)[Essay]
By Guest Contributor Bao Phi, originally posted at the Star Tribune Your Voices Blog I’ve told this story a million times: when I was young, my father kept me off the streets and saved much needed...
View ArticleFinal Fantasy XIII: New game, same colors?
by Guest Contributor Bao Phi, originally published at Your Voices This is not a review. This is a blog entry where I explore issues of race and representation in pop culture, in this case, video...
View ArticleProps: William Hung
by Guest Contributor Bao Phi, originally published at the Star-Tribune’s Your Voices Let me tell you, I have an almost supernatural (some would say neurotic) capacity for remembering the most...
View ArticleMy late and messy reaction to this whole ‘Chinese Mothers Are Superior’ Hubbub
by Guest Contributor Bao Phi I was going to work on an essay in response to Ms. Chua’s article. I had several pages of notes, and was going to take the two or three hours it took to condense those...
View Article