Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
This Time Must Be Different The Asian American and Asian Research Institute (AAARI) unequivocally condemns the killing of George Floyd. Mr. Floyd’s killing demonstrated a depraved indifference to human life that has not only been a product of the systemic and historical racism of this country but as some have pointed out, anti-blackness. We stand … Read more
Filmmaker and Brooklyn College Film Department professor Vinit Parmar is committed to telling the stories of the underrepresented.
On Tuesday, January 29, staffers at the Achievement First High School in Bushwick started receiving racist, anti-Asian emails as well as violent threats. Along with an email on Tuesday morning telling an employee to go back to Hong Kong, the sender threatened to bomb and shoot up the school building at some point during the … Read more
The board and staff of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute are saddened by the loss of our good friend, past AAARI board member, poet and Distinguished Professor Meena Alexander (Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center), who passed away on November 20, 2018. The following is a poem by Russell C. Leong, editor of CUNY … Read more
2015 Scholarship Award Submission Due: June 30, 2015 The Thomas Tam Scholarship is funded by an endowment established by the City University of New York in recognition of Dr. Thomas Tam’s contributions as a former member of the CUNY Board of Trustees, founding Executive Director of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute, and leadership … Read more
LETTER TO PEW RESEARCH CENTER: June 22, 2012 Dear Paul Taylor and Dr. Mark Lopez, We are writing on behalf of the Asian American Pacific Islander Policy and Research Consortium (AAPIPRC), a national organization of four university-based Asian American research centers. [i] We respectfully submit this response to the Pew Research Center’s recent report, The … Read more