Paul Watanabe chairs the Political Science Dept. and directs the Institute for Asian American Studies at UMass Boston. He chairs the U.S. Census’ National Advisory Committee and serves on the board of the ACLU of MA.
Growing up in Utah as an American of Japanese descent, I searched for role models — athletes, movie or television stars, pop singers — who I could identify with and who looked like me and my family.
In the absence of questions her Native American ancestry, Elizabeth Warren and incumbent Sen. Scott Brown have a fair and orderly discussion of real issues.
As a result of his off-the-cuff remarks, instead of spending the final weeks of the campaign touting the GOP’s winning message, Mitt Romney is having to do damage control.