Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
During the McCarthy era, the loyalties of over ten thousand American citizens of Chinese descent were questioned based on their ethnicity and alleged risk to national security. CHINATOWN FILES explores the roots and legacy of the Cold War on the Chinese American community during the 1950s and 1960s, and presents the firsthand accounts by seven men and women of being hunted down, jailed and targeted for deportation in America.
Join co-editor Kent Wong, and panelists Alex Hing, May Ying Chen, and Marian Thom to discuss Asian American Workers Rising, a new book that celebrates the first thirty years of the Asian Pacific Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO, the first national Asian and Pacific Islander (AAPI) worker organization within the U.S. labor movement.
A week of special programming with Lisa Lowe, Hess Scholar-in-Residence, organized by the Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities – Brooklyn College/CUNY.
Films in this year’s CUNY Shorts Showcase, part of the 44th Asian American International Film Festival, deal with topics/genres including mental health, childhood memories, coping with loss, ethnic food origins, and Lunar New Year traditions.
Join Third World Newsreel, Nodutdol for Korean Community Development, Korean Policy Institute, and The Documentary Forum at CCNY as they view two historical films about the U.S. in Korea – The Women Outside: Korean Women and the US Military and Camp Arirang, and hear from a panel of scholars and activists.
Musician gamin has created “Unforgotten Song,” a music and multi-media work, to commemorate the anguish of Comfort Women, enslaved local women throughout Japanese-occupied East Asia, from 1932 to 1945.