Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
This presentation will compare the student academic achievements among the Italian and Asian communities. There has been a close bond in these communities not only demonstrated by the proximity of Little Italy and Chinatown, but as well as the evolving communities that were once Italian American strongholds (i.e. Ridgewood, Elmhurst, Flushing.) This symbiotic relationship is … Read more
An introduction to the Community Building Initiative (CBI) at Brooklyn College with particular focus on the observations, experiences, and insights gained through our Asian Outreach efforts. A panel of Asian American/Asian faculty, staff, and students will join us in a dialogue discussion following this presentation.
Since independence congress party has ruled India, first under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru then his daughter Indira Gandhi. In 1977 for the first time all opposition parties in India came together which resulted into congress party’s crushing defeat and formation of a non-congress government at the center led by Janta Party. This can be … Read more
We’d like to begin with a quote from Siegried Kracauer’s 1927 essay on photography: “memory-images appear to be fragments but only because photography does not encompass the meaning to which they refer and in relation to which they cease to be fragments. Similarly, from the perspective of memory, photography appears as a jumble that consists … Read more
This research study was funded by PSC-CUNY Research Grant for 2001-2002. This cross-cultural descriptive study compared the childbearing concerns and experiences of Korean and Western postnatal mothers in three areas: physiological, psychosocial and infant care. In order to ascertain whether there were cultural differences in these three areas, a survey was conducted. Fifty Western postnatal … Read more
Educational Changes in Mongolia Timeline of Mongolia’s Educational System from 1911 to 2003 1911 – The first formal and secular education in Mongolia begins. 1935 – 55% of all party members in Mongolia are illiterate. Only 2.7% of all children are enrolled in secular state schools. 13% of all children are enrolled in monastic schools. … Read more