Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
In an editorial for the American Journal of Public Health, Associate Professor Emma Tsui and Mary Huynh of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene make recommendations for health departments and schools of public health to work more intentionally and vigorously to combat Anti–Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) racism.
Results found that Asians are arrested at higher rates under the EEA, yet they are less likely to be found guilty than defendants with Western surnames.
“Being part of a democracy is about having a voice,” one community advocate said. “The first step to that is recognizing that we exist.”
The idea of a shared Asian American identity has been fraught for about as long as it has existed. Together, the more than two dozen reflections shown here reveal a range of views and complicated emotions being felt in Asian American communities today.
Pan was first nominated to the federal court in 2016 by Democratic President Barack Obama.
Prof. Kenneth J. Yin will present on his new book, Dungan Folktales and Legends, a unique anthology that acquaints English-speaking readers with the rich and captivating folk stories of the Dungans, Chinese-speaking Muslims who fled Northwest China for Russian Central Asia after failure of the Dungan Revolt (1862–1877) against the Qing dynasty.