Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
The Asian Alumni Association of City College of New York/CUNY and chef Grace Young donated $1,200 to Hop Lee, one of Chinatown’s most beloved restaurants. In February, Young held a virtual cooking class for the group and requested that her fee be donated to the restaurant.
FOX 5 NY spoke with authors whose children’s books are celebrating the experiences of Asians and Pacific Islanders and changing the dialogue for younger generations in America.
The seller said they weren’t violating eBay’s policies and said other major auction houses had sold similar art.
It’s all coming full circle for Daphne Palasi Andreades (’15). The up-and-coming author will serve as this semester’s Sidney Harman Writing Fellow, a part of the Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, which Ms. Andreades participated in as a Baruch student only a few years ago.
South Asian Americans living in the New York area and across the country walk the fine line between assimilation and maintaining ancestral cultural identity. It’s redefining the American dream by removing limitations on what it can mean.
Tshab Her grew up feeling like she lived a double life. Like many Asian Americans, the 29-year-old Hmong American artist was always switching between two names: an Asian name and her “American” name.