Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
AAARI Witnessing the strife of Afghans is “heart-wrenching for families who escaped Saigon,” one community advocate said. “We know the desperation, the loss of homeland and fear and panic they must be feeling.”
The CUNY Ethics and Morality Essay Contest is funded by an endowment gift of $100,000 to the City University of New York by Dr. K. York Chynn and his wife Noelle Chynn. This annual award is intended to promote and stimulate thinking by college students at CUNY about the topic of ethics, morality, and virtuous behavior in their lives.
Ms. Vikii Wong, a Communications and Media major, is in the early stages of researching on the Stop Asian Hate movement, based on a class paper. Vikii will gather qualitative and quantitative data on the status of Asian hate crimes, including the recent spa shootings in Atlanta, Georgia on March 16, 2021. She plans to raise awareness by learning about the current state of Asian hate in the United States, and perhaps Canada—as Vancouver has a large Asian population.
I was getting my monthly haircut in Manhattan’s Chinatown a few weeks ago when my stylist, Nikki, told me she was scared. She’d recently gone next door to pick up lunch at a Sichuan restaurant and had seen an Asian man in his 30s whose head was completely bandaged up.
Since the 2000 count, participants have been able to check off more than one box when answering the race question on census forms. But breakdowns of the country’s racial and ethnic makeup often don’t reflect a multiracial population that has increased by 276% since the 2010 census. They focus instead on racial groups that are … Read more
The Asian population in the U.S. grew by 35.5 percent over the past 10 years.