Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
The latest Fall/Winter 2019-2020 special issue, guest edited by Stephen Lee and Elizabeth Hanna Rubio (University of California, Irvine), centers on the experiences of Asian Pacific Islanders (APIs) and in doing so, contributes to a small, but growing body of literature within Asian American and U.S. immigration studies that explores what it means to be Asian American and living under the threat of immigration-related consequences such as deportation. The contributions in this volume of CUNY FORUM touch upon a variety of themes: Politics, Identity, and Social Movements.
CUNY FORUM Volume 6:1 (Fall 2018 to Winter 2019, ISSN: 2329-1125, 100 pages, $15.00) features three sections, each examining through essays, commentaries, and research: 1. Crossing Out/In Our Communities; 2. To Serve the People and Lose Your Sexuality?; and 3. Translating There to Here
A commemorative edition on the fifth-year anniversary of CUNY FORUM, founded in 2013 to advance thinking & action in Asian American Studies. Asian American Matters (ISBN: 978-0-692-94978-8, 256 pp., illustrated, $25) features forty New York and U.S. scholars writers, artists and activists, is the first national anthology to address post-9/11 issues around Asians, Asian Americans, South Asians, and Muslims in relation to Asian American Studies and communities.
Purchase: CUNY FORUM Volume 4:1
AAARI’s fourth issue of CUNY FORUM is concerned with how Asian American Studies, as a radical education initiative begun forty-years ago, can become a “change-creator,” providing a counter narrative to what is already known or practiced. Here, East Coast scholars, activists, artists and institutions, through their work and research bring critical transcultural perspectives and uncommon meanings to both voice and practice.
Purchase: CUNY FORUM Volume 3:1
AAARI’s third issue of CUNY FORUM commemorates and examines the history of Asian American Studies on the East Coast during the tumultuous time of the Civil Rights Movement to the present. Learn from leading scholars and pioneers in the field about the future of Asian American and South Asian Studies in research, teaching, and education.
Purchase: CUNY FORUM Volume 2:1
AAARI’s second issue of CUNY FORUM features a mixture of Nobel Prize recipients together with notable Asian Pacific scholars, journalists and public artists including individuals connected with Bangladesh, South Africa, Vietnam, Cambodia, Korea, Nepal, Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines.