Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Part memoir, part history, part investigation, in “Chinese Couplets,” filmmaker Felicia Lowe searches for answers about her mother’s emigration to America during the Chinese Exclusion era. Lowe’s documentary reveals the often painful price paid by immigrants who abandoned their personal identity, the burden of silence they passed on to their offspring, and the intergenerational strife … Read more
Join Dharma Path for a discussion on the Buddhist perspective on wisdom, wealth and peace, with Ven. Changtzu, Ven. Yanrong & Ven. Shiyi.
Association for Asian American Studies Conference Date: Saturday, March 31, 2018 Time: 1:15PM to 2:45PM Place: The Westin St. Francis – Yorkshire Room San Francisco, CA Although New York City is known for its diversity, it still remains largely segregated by race and ethnicity from one neighborhood to another. Sometimes the boundaries between ethnic and … Read more
How is nursing tied to histories of capitalist imperialism in India and the United States? How was it divided by gender, race, class, caste, sexuality, region and religion? How do we find the stories of marginalized women workers in the archives? What happens when we ask Indian nurses about their own life stories? A talk that traces the shifting positions of Indian nurses within an international division of nursing labor, and connects the colonization of the Indian subcontinent, the racial apartheid of the Jim and Jane Crow United States, the construction of Cold War neocolonialism, and the last major overhaul of U.S. immigration law over fifty years ago.
In this talk, based on her new book The Limits of Whiteness (2017, Stanford University Press), sociologist Neda Maghbouleh shares the under-theorized and sometimes heartbreaking story of how Iranian American young adults and teenagers move across a white/not-white color line. By contextualizing her ethnographic data with a century’s worth of neglected historical and legal evidence, she offers new evidence for how a “white” American immigrant group might become “brown,” and what such a transformation says about race in North America today.