How the “Angry Minority” Trope Gaslights People of Color
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Call for Papers – Trauma and Westernization: Embodied Exclusion in Korean/Korean American Women’s Literature (NeMLA Panel)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim claimed, “My Westernization took place in my body.” This panel seeks to theorize the female Korean American body as a racialized and excluded site–a biopolitical site for trauma and haunting. More specifically, we seek to investigate representations of Korean women’s bodies in Korean/Korean American women’s writing and how these representations come to … Read more
Biden issues proclamation honoring colleges serving Asian American and Pacific Islanders
Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions make up just over 5% of all colleges and universities but award 40% of bachelor’s degrees attained by such students.
UNC to hire three faculty members focused on Asian American studies after student petition
“The hiring effort was sparked by student interest and the knowledge that North Carolina’s Asian population has become the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the state,” Geneva Collins, director of communications for the college, said in an email on behalf of Dean Jim White.
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center Spotlights Western World’s 1st-Ever Female Playwright in New Work, Sex and the Abbey
The LaGuardia Performing Arts Center (LPAC) at LaGuardia Community College/CUNY, kicks off its 11th annual Rough Draft Festival with a new play, Sex and the Abbey, written by Diana Ly and directed by Emily Lyon.
Emmy-nominated director, alumna Shalini Kantayya delivers CCNY’s Dortort Lecture, Oct. 4
Award-winning film director and producer Shalini Kantayya, whose latest film, “TikTok, Boom,” was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, delivers the David Dortort Lecture in the Dramatic Arts at The City College of New York on Oct. 4. Free and open to the public, her talk, 5:30 – 7 p.m. … Read more