Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Since the start of COVID-19, there has been a rise in hate incidents against Asians and Asian Americans on a national scale. Join our distinguished guests and experts for a discussion of the issues and how we can provide better allyship to local AAPI communities.
The long-term trend of congressional representation as dictated by the decennial census has for decades been toward the South and West and away from the Northeast and Midwest. That trend continued in the official 2020 census determinations, announced Monday, but it has slowed down significantly, and also didn’t produce much of a partisan shift.
The COVID-19 pandemic has fueled xenophobia and anti-Asian racism and violence. But Asian Americans have experienced racism long before the pandemic. At this event, we will talk about this important history, as well as more recent Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) experiences around COVID-19 related racism. We will address race-related stress and healing, share resources to protect our communities, and provide opportunities to build solidarity with the larger LaGuardia community.
Korean “Comfort Women” synthesizes the previous major findings about Japanese military sexual slavery and legal recommendations, and provides new findings about the issues “comfort women” faced for an English-language audience. It also examines the transnational redress movement, revealing that the Japanese government has tried to conceal the crime of sexual slavery and to resolve the women’s human rights issue with diplomacy and economic power.
With term limits creating 32 open seat races in the upcoming 2021 elections for New York City Council, Asian American Federation presents this data brief to increase awareness of the changing Asian populations in all 51 city council districts. This brief highlights trends in the Asian population by comparing 2019 Five-Year American Community Survey (ACS) … Read more
CACF has developed a comprehensive, long-term APA Education Equity Agenda with values and recommendations to finally uplift and address our community’s needs for our public schools.