OpinionJuly 8, 2021
Research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Is Being Stifled
Funders and peer reviewers are contributing to systemic racism through their biases about members of these populations
Stories by Amy Yee
Amy Yee is an award-winning journalist whose book Beyond Exile: Tibetan Refugees in India and Beyond is forthcoming from University of North Carolina Press in Fall 2022. She writes for the New York Times, The Economist and NPR and is a former Financial Times staff reporter in New York and India. You can learn more about her at amyyeewrites.com and Twitter: @amyyeewrites.
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