Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Co-editor Nicholas D. Hartlep will present on Belonging in Higher Education: Perspectives and Lessons from Diverse Faculty (Routledge, 2024), his new book that illuminates autoethnographic stories of belonging in higher education in the United States.
Family Amnesia (Daylight Books, 2024) honors the current and past stories of immigrant workers in the U.S. and examines the impact that the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act continues to have on the Chinese immigrant experience.
In agile and frank prose, The Way You Want to Be Loved (Gaudy Boy, 2024) tells the stories of queer, displaced lives from India’s Northeast, an underrepresented region in English fiction.
Prof. Manu Bhagavan will present his biography, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Penguin, 2023), based on eight years of research and using material in five languages from seven countries and over forty archives.
Born 1941 in Oakland, California’s Chinatown, William Gee Wong is the only son of his father, known as Pop. Born in Guangdong Province, China, Pop emigrated to Oakland as a teenager during the Chinese Exclusion era in 1912 and entered the U.S. legally as the “son of a native,” despite having partially false papers. Sons of Chinatown is Wong’s evocative dual memoir of his and his father’s parallel experiences in America.
Through untapped archival materials, contemporary sources, and numerous interviews with filmmakers, magazine editors, and student activists, Po-Shek Fu explores how global conflicts were localized and intertwined with myriad local historical experiences and cultural formation.