Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
AAARI The shootings of Asian people at three Atlanta spas earlier this month have set up a unique test for K-12 schools: Will they step up and grapple with anti-Asian racism, offering crucial supports to students and seizing the chance to teach about anti-Asian violence? Or will they overlook it?
Each month in May, June, July, and August 2020, CUNY FORUM will feature essays; analysis; literary, graphic, and poetic responses; conversations and community resources around the global COVID-19 pandemic and the linked Black Lives Matter protests from comparative Asian American and international Asian perspectives. Contributing writers hail from, or originate in the U.S., Peoples Republic of China, Taiwan, Myanmar, … Read more
Eugene Lee Yang of “The Try Guys” released a documentary about the racism and violence Asians and Asian Americans have faced in the United States.
“Hate and stigma against Asian-American populations have gone viral during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Anahi Viladrich, a professor of sociology at Queens College and The Graduate Center at the City University of New York, who recently published a paper in the American Journal of Public Health exploring the rise of anti-Asian language.
Gov. Cuomo’s recent remarks about the deadly rampage in Atlanta were callous and counter-productive, 50 Asian-American groups wrote in a scathing letter to the guv.
Tonight, as part of Metrofocus’ Exploring Hate initiative, Frank Wu, Queens College President, author of “Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White” and one of the voices driving this conversation both nationally and on campus joins us.