Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Reducing Asians to flat, heavily accented caricatures is a favorite pastime in this country, and has been for decades. Mocking Asian men as weak and effeminate is so common that it’s become white noise for too many who hear it; Asian women have long been reduced to dehumanizing stereotypes, whether meek and speechless or aggressively … Read more
The news that eight people, six of them Asian-American women, were killed at businesses in the Atlanta area on March 16 came after a year of intense anti-Asian racism in the U.S. On the platforms where news arrives first, and quickly attaches to feelings, emotions were already raw. In the dissonance was confirmation of what … Read more
NBC News investigative and consumer correspondent Vicky Nguyen moderates this important special report focused on the concerning rise in anti-Asian violence during the pandemic and solutions to racism and xenophobia. Special guests include Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., basketball star Jeremy Lin, actors Olivia Munn and Brian Tee, ‘Survivor’ winner Yul Kwon, the Nobel Prize nominee … Read more
There’s white folks, there’s Black folks, and we really have failed to talk about anyone who is not in one of those two groups. What we’re seeing now is, Asian Americans are a surprise in terms of the racial discourse of this country. And it’s because of that failure. It’s because we have really only … Read more
Angie Chung, a sociology professor at the State University of New York at Albany, interviewed roughly 70 UAlbany students about their experiences with racism and attacks since the Spring. Her research project, The Impact of COVID-19 on Racial Belonging and Well-Being Among Asian/American Students in New York State, has given her the opportunity to hear … Read more
Jennifer Ho, the daughter of a refugee father from China and an immigrant mother from Jamaica, is the director of the Center for Humanities & the Arts at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she also holds an appointment as Professor of Ethnic Studies. She is the president of the Association for Asian American Studies, … Read more