Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
The presentation will analyze the ongoing debate in Japan over how the past should be remembered, and how this impacts on issues of national identity. Prof. Weiner is speaking on a Diversity Grant obtained by Prof. Keming Liu (Medgar Evers College, CUNY) in part to celebrate the 80th birthday of Prof. Betty Lee Sung.
This talk will examine figurines from tombs of the Chinese “medieval period” (c. 220-750 A.D.), a turbulent but seminal period in Chinese art after the fall of the Han Empire (206 B.C.-A.D. 220). Influences from Central Asia, ancient Persia, India, Northern Steppes, and the Byzantium Empire are evident on the art made for the service … Read more
The lecture will focus on the cultural-psychological aspect of Asian Americans’ experiences. Both the international context for their early emigration and the American cultural environment for their acculturation process will be examined (adaptation = selective process vs. unconditional assimilation). The interrelatedness between the two larger contexts will be analyzed to interpret the behavioral patterns that … Read more
This paper investigates the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s program of “Special Registration” as an instrument of racial formation. As part of the Bush administration’s “war on terror,” the Department of Homeland Security required men and boys over the age of 16 from a select group of mainly Muslim-majority nations to undergo “special registration,” an … Read more
“Anna May Wong” will be the first feature length documentary about the life and times of Anna May Wong (1905-1961), a premier Chinese American film star and stage actress who achieved worldwide fame in the 1920s and the 1930s. During her time, as an Asian American actress, Anna May Wong’s career and her complex personal … Read more
This presentation is set against the backdrop of neo-liberal policies of economic reform instituted in India in 1991. I examine the decade of the 1990s as a period of dramatic change from prior decades of Independent India. I suggest that with the opening of the Indian economy in conjunction with the privatization of television the … Read more