Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
A stunning anthology licensed in partnership with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, We Are Here celebrates 30 of the most inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in U.S. history.
Editors Nicholas D. Hartlep and Daisy Ball will discuss their new book, Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty which examines the challenges faced by diverse faculty members in colleges and universities. Highlighting the experiences of faculty of color in higher education across a range of institutional types, chapter authors employ an autoethnographic approach to the telling of their stories.
Based on her CUNY FORUM essay, sociologist Prema Kurien argues that understandings of race in India continue to influence the ways in which Indians and South Asians carry the baggage of racialized colonial ideas intertwined with notions around caste hierarchy and the realities of different linguistic groups in India.
Will Hollywood be eclipsed by its Chinese counterpart? No author is better positioned to untangle this riddle than Ying Zhu, a leading expert on Chinese film and media. In fascinating vignettes, Hollywood in China unravels the century-long relationship between Hollywood and China for the first time.
Filmmakers Katie May Porter (director) and Gregg Porter (producer/editor) will discuss their short documentary, We Are American Soldiers, featuring soldiers from the 407th Air Service Squadron.
In her CUNY FORUM essay, writer Vina Orden discusses quincentennial commemoration of the Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation across the Pacific to South America, and presents a critique of colonial Spanish and Filipino history, utilizing Luis H. Francia’s play, “Black Henry,” as a radical work of imagination and jumping off point to deconstruct colonial history.