Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
The president and CEO of Scholastic Books is acknowledging that the company was “wrong and not in keeping with Scholastic’s values” when it asked an author to remove references to racism in her story about her grandparents at the Minidoka Incarceration Camp.
In the process, [Ava Chin] uncovered a mysterious family history, taking in five generations of her own Chinese-American ancestors over the course of over 150 years as they tried to lay roots in the United States.
A new proposal aims to change that, merging the two questions into one and adding a new category for people of Middle Eastern and North African descent. That would alter how the government – and by extension, the research community studying Americans’ demographics, opinions, voting habits and behaviors – measures and reports on the race … Read more
The CUNY Office of Transformation recently announced three Medgar Evers College (MEC) faculty members as Career Success Fellows—Professor Jade Robertson, Dr. Rosa Zavala-Gutierrez, and Dr. Shiraz Mujtaba.
Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC/CUNY) Professor Alvin Eng authored the memoir, “Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond,” which will be the focus of an Asian Heritage month event, a book talk on April 20.
Here’s why the state needs to allocate $66.5 million in funding for Asian-led and Asian-serving organizations statewide through the AAPI Equity Budget Coalition.