Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
This study looks at sensation seeking and criminal propensities in the United States, England and Hong Kong. A preliminary study using a sample from the United States found sensation seeking and criminal propensities to be strongly linked, especially among males. If male sensation seekers in the United States are attracted to criminal behavior, is that … Read more
Dr. Tarry Hum’s research examines the increasing presence of ethnic banks in New York City’s immigrant neighborhoods. In particular, Dr. Hum focus on the growing number of Chinese-owned ethnic banks in working-class Sunset Park, Brooklyn, their lending practices and community investment activities. Based on an analysis of 1998-2005 HMDA data, interviews with bank CEOs and … Read more
Dr. Joseph T. Lee looks at the current development of the Sino-American encounter in the Third World. During the Maoist and the Dengist era, China was responding to the international pressures from the United States and the Soviet Union rather than dealing with the Third World countries per se. But since the launching of the … Read more
To investigate the interaction between speech recognition dictation technology and the use of language by non-native speakers of English, several language minority students from diverse ethnolinguistic backgrounds were asked to use speech recognition dictation software to orally compose a series of college level writing tasks. The interactions were videotaped and transcribed; the transcriptions include the … Read more
The state of Tamil Nadu is located along the south east coast of the Indian subcontinent. The Tamil culture and language is said to have its origins in prehistoric times and is related to the ancient Dravidian culture of Southern India. The rural region of interior Tamil Nadu is made up of thousands of small … Read more
In New York City, as well as nationwide, an increasingly significant number of children speak a language other than English at home. Sound educational policies, speech/language interventions and parenting practices largely rely on our understanding of the processes through which Asian American children develop proficiency in both their home language and English. In this presentation, … Read more