AWARE: Articles

AWARE: Articles

A lot has been written about the Alliance Working for Asian Rights and Empowerment. We list here articles about AWARE and the activities of its members and also related articles on gang hysteria in Orange County or the CalGang computer the police use; the full-text is provided here where possible.

News and Journal Articles

  • Billiter, Bill, Asian-Americans Organize AWARE, Los Angeles Times, September 29, 1993, Orange County edition, Metro, B2.

  • Kondo, Annette, Racial Profiling Incidents Aired, Los Angeles Times [Valley edition], April 5, 2000. See flyer for the event. An ACLU Newswire essay elaborates on this news account: CHP Officer Blasts Racial Profiling at DWB Forum in Southern California. There are links to an ACLU case plus other racial profiling actions.

  • Kindy, Kimberly, Prying eyes were watching UCI's library activist, Orange County Register, January 25, 1998, p.1. [Enter keywords from title to search Register archives]

  • Marks, Jessica, Panel discusses racial profiling, Daily Sundial [CSU Northridge], April 5, 2000.

  • Ngin, ChorSwan, Racism and Racialized Discourse on Asian Youth in Orange County, California Politics & Policy, 1997, pp. 93-102.

  • Nguyen, Tina, Asian Man's Case Triggers Outcry: Activists Contend Many Wrongfully Held, Los Angeles Times, December 30, 1994, Orange County edition, Metro B1...

  • Seeley, John, Vows of Peace: Messing with those who want to leave gang life, LA Weekly, August 4-10, 2000.

  • Tsang, Daniel C., Moral Panic Over Asian Gangs, Rice Paper (University of California, Irvine), v. 4, n. 1 (Autumn 1993), 18-21.

  • Tsang, Daniel C., Judge Dismisses Case Despite Gang Expert's Testimony, Asian Week, February 3, 1995, p.5.

  • Tsang, Daniel C., Asian American Gangbanger Stereotype Sentences UCI Student to 15 Years in Prison, New University (University of California, Irvine), April 17, 1995, pp. 1995, 16-17.

  • Tsang, Daniel C., Garden Grove's Asian Mug File Settlement, Policing by Consent, April 1996, pp. 8-9.

  • Tsang, Daniel C., Muckraking at Subversity, KUCI Program Guide Spring 1997, [20]-22].

  • Tsang, Daniel C., Hail to the Chief: And What a Relief, OC Weekly, January 17-23, 1997, p.9 [On Laguna Police Chief Neal J. Purcell's stonewalling of AWARE's request for documents]

  • Tsang, Daniel C., GREAT No More: But a New Gang Database is Ready to Take its Place (Civil Unliberties), OC Weekly, July 11-17, 1997, p. 10. [The database, now CalGang, tracks at least 14,732 Hispanics, 2,586 Asians, 1,521 whites, 898 blacks, 360 Pacific Islanders in Orange County. There are at least 1,139 photos of individuals. The article scooped an L.A. Times July 14, 1997 piece, "Gang Database Raises Civil Rights Concerns" by Lorenza Munoz.]

  • Tsang, Daniel C., DWUS: Driving While a UCI Student (Civil Unliberties), OC Weekly, April 23-29, 1999, p. 11. The New University editorialized about this issue, citing this article: Maybe all of the inmates happen to be minorities, May 1, 2000.
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  • Tsang, Daniel C., The Computer Wore Colors: How a Sotware Glitch Produced the DA's Gang Problem, OC Weekly, July 16-22 1999.

  • Vo, Vim, Asian Groups Rally Around Tran Case, Orange County Register, December 30, 1994, B01...

    Opinion Pieces

  • Tsang, Daniel C., Is 'Innocent Until Proven Guilty' A Lost Principle?, Los Angeles Times, August 30, 1993, B5 (Home edition) and B9 (Orange County edition). | Basic Skills Workbook: Topic -- Gangs and Stereotypes [Longman's text, using this article to teach Writing to high school students]

  • Tsang, Daniel C., 'Asians Are Automatically Labeled Gang Members', Los Angeles Times, December 12, 1994, B5 (Home edition) and B9 (Orange County edition).

  • Tsang, Daniel C., Anarchistic Advice to LAPD, Los Angeles Times, August 12, 2000, B9 (home edition) B11 (Orange County edition).

    Research and Action

  • Driving While Black: Racial Profiling on Our Nation's Highways [ACLU Special Report] | ACLU Racial Profiling site | ACLU Driver Profiling Complaint Form [if in Orange County, California, feel free to send a copy to AWARE at awaredt@hotmail.com, so that we can fight this practice in the county. AWARE is helping ACLU with this survey, especially since Asians are a major profiling target locally.]

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