Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Throughout history, we have deconstructed and rebuilt our cultural heritage. As a composer or a performer, one often confronts decisions with how to interpret historical and musical vocabularies, and how it leads to our own original voices as artists. Three Korean composers will share their original music and voices. Presenting elements of music with comparisons … Read more
Authors Stan Yogi and Laura Atkins will discuss their book for young students, Fred Korematsu Speaks Up, the first publication in the Fighting For Justice series. Inspired by the award-winning book for adults Wherever There’s a Fight, the Fighting for Justice series introduces young readers to real-life heroes and heroines of social progress. In Yogi … Read more
The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in a Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, Spring 2018) is anchored in the experiences and lives of Filipina migrants and their families in the Philippines and the main objective of this book is to make visible all of the forms, roles and definitions of social reproductive labor and care work required in the maintenance … Read more
New York City’s “Chinatowns” are becoming increasingly inhospitable to both long-term residents and recent immigrants from working class backgrounds. Such immense changes in the landscape and intensive re-routings of both people and money can often be traced back to a political crisis—the attacks of September 11, 2001—and an economic crisis—the financial meltdown that peaked in … Read more
Despite the growing number of Asian American and Latino/a law students, many panethnic students still feel as if they do not belong in this elite microcosm, which reflects the racial inequalities in mainstream American society. While in law school, these students—often from immigrant families, and often the first to go to college—have to fight against … Read more
What have been the consequences for the cross-border traffic of feminism, birth control, and maternal surrogacy between India and the United States? How can these histories, and contemporary practices, deepen current struggles around feminism, imperialism, capitalism and reproductive justice? Please join us for a conversation featuring Asha Nadkarni, author of Eugenic Feminism: Reproductive Nationalism in … Read more