Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
“Saigu has become almost like a memorial for Korean Americans,” one advocate said. “It’s a moment of profound sadness and loss, of feeling so targeted and so abandoned.”
Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women’s rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the post-9/11 era. In her new book, Television and the Afghan Culture Wars, Wazhmah Osman places television at the heart of these public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing. After four decades of gender and sectarian violence, she argues, the internationally funded media sector has the potential to bring about justice, national integration, and peace.
The Department of Social Services (DSS) is comprised of the administrative units of the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) and the Department of Homeless Services (DHS). HRA is dedicated to fighting poverty and income inequality by providing New Yorkers in need with essential benefits such as Food Assistance and Emergency Rental Assistance. DHS … Read more
Efforts to create a national Asian Pacific American museum in Washington, D.C., pushed ahead Tuesday with House passage of legislation that would create a commission to study the issue.
Fiona Ji-Hoo Kim (John Jay College ’22) spent most of her teenage years training to be an Olympic figure skater—going to South Korea every summer to train 12 hours a day. Then a torn Achilles tendon derailed her dream. “Around the time I was injured, I was sexually assaulted,” shares Kim, an international criminal justice … Read more
Jennifer Chin ’25, a John Jay College forensic psychology major from Queens, New York, grew up with lots of different languages swirling around in her household. Identifying as “half Chinese and half African American” because her father has Chinese and Portuguese ancestors, and her mother is a Black woman from Côte d’Ivoire, Chin’s likely to … Read more