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Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (Performance & Talk)

Wednesday, May 1, 2024 | 12:30pm to 2pm

CUNY Graduate Center – Martin Segal Theatre
365 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/performance-book-talk-ava-chin-mott-street-tickets-878256648277

Join the CUNY Graduate Center’s American Studies Certificate Program and the Advanced Research Collaborative for this special lunch with Ava Chin—author, performer, and professor—as she performs and talks about her new in paperback book Mott Street (Penguin Books), about the impact of the country’s first immigration restrictions on four generations of her family in New York City’s Chinatown. Chin will be in conversation with Vivian Louie, Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, and Director of the Asian American Studies Center and Program at Hunter College.

Purchase Book: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/563929/mott-street-by-ava-chin/

Organizers
CUNY Graduate Center – American Studies Certificate Program
CUNY Graduate Center – Advanced Research Collaborative

Co-Sponsor
Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY
Asian American Studies Program & Center at Hunter College/CUNY
CUNY Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI)
CUNY Graduate Center – Ph.D. Program in English
CUNY Graduate Center – Ph.D. Program in History
CUNY Graduate Center – M.A. Program in Biography and Memoir
Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2) – Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center

Author Bio

Ava Chin is the author of Eating Wildly, winner of the Les Dames d’Escoffier International M.F.K. Fisher Book Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Village Voice, and Saveur. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York Institute for the Humanities, and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. She is a professor of creative nonfiction at the College of Staten Island/CUNY.