Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
The Indian caste system, which dates back three thousand years, divides Hindus by birth into four categories that determine their place in society. Brahmins, members of the highest caste, have historically served as priests and teachers. Dalits, who fall outside of the caste system, work as street sweepers and toilet cleaners.
Monday marks 50 years since the U.S. ended its nine-year bombing of Laos. Traditional textiles with missiles, grenades and attack planes offer a haunting glimpse of the attacks.
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.