Bruce Reyes-Chow

As some of you know, May is Asian Pacific Heritage Month. There has always been debate over the necessity or usefulness of these kinds of special months, but overall, I think it’s a great idea for folks to take some time to focus on different aspects of American culture and history. In the past I have posted suggested reading lists, movie [...]

What began as  a personal blogging hiatus, there has been such a positive response to the  to the Guest Blogging Crew, I am making this a regular feature on my blog. It is my intention to expose new/different voices to a larger audience so if you are interested in submitting an idea, please feel fill out this form. This week I am glad to [...]

[Photo by nikk_la] While “Linsanity” might not rise to the level of an international, “Have you been living under a rock?” story, it does seems as thoughtrecently avoiding some mention of Jeremy Lin has been hard to do.  The quick story: Jeremy Lin, from Palo Alto, CA is a basketball player. A little bit of an Asian American [...]

[Photo from the film "Vincent Who?"] UPDATE: Asian Pacific Americans for Progress is compiling a list of responses to the ad. [RESPONSES] On the night of June 19, 1982 in Detroit, MI, after a confrontation at a local club where Vincent Chin was having his bachelor’s party, two auto workers, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, beat Chin with [...]

First things first, GO SEE THIS SHOW!  Falsettoland will complete its San Francisco run this weekend – 02.10, 02.11, 02.12 -, so get thee to Brown Paper Tickets and BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW . . . then come back and read the rest of my review. I’ll wait. *waiting* Okay, now that you have reserved your seats, [...]

I have written plenty on [race] in general and [Martin Luther King Jr.'s] birthday in particular, but on this, the 2012 remembrance of the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., let me just offer three very random thoughts on the “post-racial” question. On achieving  a “post-racial” America - If conversations about race are to have any meaning for [...]

Photo : Blue Dot Imagery This past weekend I had the privilege of seeing Nicole Maxali’s – pronounced “Mah-SHAH-Lee” – solo performance, “Forgetting the Details.” The story of Maxali’s journey from childhood to adulthood as she navigated some hard realities of her family, the plot revolved around her relationship with her grandmother and the impact of the onset of her Alzheimers on the family. [...]

Last night we finally watched the latest episode of Glee, Asian F. Yes, I like Glee. Get over it. For those who have watched Glee from the beginning, you know that there have been ups and downs in the pace and content of show. In this third season, episode 3 is one of the best episodes in terms [...]

In response to my last post, The Race for Room 200 and the #sfmayor Election, a comment on the SF Gate Cross Posting, basically said that I should just shut up about politics because I am a pastor.  Well, sorry to disappoint those who think that being a person of faith automatically excludes him or her from [...]

In case you have not refreshed your culture-to-month matching skilz, May is Asian Pacific American History month.  Much to debate around setting aside a month a year to particular ethnic groups, but as long as folks don’t see these interactions as ways to avoid dealing with deeper issues of race and culture throughout the rest of the year – “What, [...]

It is not often that I read a book that simultaneously expands my knowledge base on social and cultural realities AND draws me into deep reflection upon my own life in the midst of the knowledge.  What a gift Eileen O’Brien has given this cyclical armchair sociologist.  Throughout the reading of The Radical Middle I [...]

balikbayan: to return home to one’s town or nation; to go home. I write this post from while sitting in my temporary “office” with the view pictured to the right.  No, I didn’t up and leave San Francisco for the islands. I am in Dumaguete, Philippines to preach at the National Church Worker’s Convocation that [...]

Dear brother and sister API’s, Waddup?!?!?!?  First Virginia Tech, then SF City College, then Stockton, now this week, not ONE, but TWO of our family were caught PRETENDING to be Stanford students.  Wow . . . how soon things change?  Now it seems when folks want to stereotype us, it is no longer how smart [...]

Well good morning.  I saw this tag right in front my favorite cafe this morning. Two hesitations as I thought about this post: ONE:  Not that any of you would, but just in case, this post is no way gives anyone permission use the pejorative, “chinaman” because “your blog friend” did. TWO: I  hesitated using [...]