The Tradition of Now: Jainism, Jazz, and the Punjabi Dhol Drum
While the originations of the dhol are not known with complete certainty, what is known is that it is a sound that has migrated.
When Asian Americans adopt a new nation, how might voting serve as a means for expressing our varied senses of identity and community?
For the majority of the year, I am half Filipina. But during Christmas, I try to embrace this identity fully through a few small rituals.
Although I grew up in the Northern Virginia area, with the third largest Korean American population in the United States, I always felt foreign, even in my own neighborhood. Adults butchered my name “Dahye” until I finally changed it to “Grace,” just to get through morning roll call.