CUNY FORUM Vol 11 – Article and Essay Submissions (Extended Deadline: 3/4/24)

The Asian American / Asian Research Institute is currently accepting submissions for our academic journal, CUNY FORUM Volume 11, scheduled for print in Summer 2024. Submission deadline has been extended to Monday, March 4, 2024. The purpose of CUNY FORUM is to provide an open space and a public commons for dialogue, debate and divergence … Read more

CUNY FORUM Volume 10:1

Economic and structural inequality, racial scapegoating, and anti-Asian xenophobia all played a role in violence against Asian Americans, then, and continue unabated to today in 2021. Against the backdrop of the continuing global Covid-19 crisis and anti-Asian violence and hate in the United States, we present to you the reader some signals of hope and reclamation on the local and national level: Asian Americans recognizing and reclaiming their place in the larger civil society despite immense institutional and ideological barriers.

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CUNY FORUM Volume 9:1

Economic and structural inequality, racial scapegoating, and anti-Asian xenophobia all played a role in violence against Asian Americans, then, and continue unabated to today in 2021. Against the backdrop of the continuing global Covid-19 crisis and anti-Asian violence and hate in the United States, we present to you the reader some signals of hope and reclamation on the local and national level: Asian Americans recognizing and reclaiming their place in the larger civil society despite immense institutional and ideological barriers.

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CUNY FORUM Volume 8:1

Each month in May, June, July, and August 2020, CUNY FORUM will feature essays; analysis; literary, graphic, and poetic responses; conversations and community resources around the global COVID-19 pandemic and the linked Black Lives Matter protests from comparative Asian American and international Asian perspectives. Contributing writers hail from, or originate in the U.S., Peoples Republic of China, Taiwan, Myanmar, … Read more

In Memoriam Corky Lee (1947-2021)

The QView #92 (February 9, 2021) A friend of mine, Corky Lee, a Queens College alumnus, passed away last month from COVID-19. A “Queens kid,” Corky was famous as a photographer who used images to advance activism. He noticed how Asian Americans were almost always left out of the picture, literally. As a child of … Read more

Rebalancing Breath and the Body Politic

“Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness,which unites your body to your thoughts.”1 —Thich Nhat Hanh TODAY AS I WRITE during the fraught U.S. presidential election, the novel coronavirus has infected over forty-eight million people worldwide and counting. Covid-19 has captured our lives and extinguished the breath of over one-million people in over … Read more